ArticleEcology letters2022
Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity.
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- Increasing pesticide diversity impairs soil microbial functions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Foliar fungi-imposed costs to plant productivity moderate shifts in composition of the rhizosphere microbiome.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Seasonal Herbage-Livestock Balance and Grassland Pressure Index Analysis in the Yellow River Source Park, Tibet Plateau, China.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Nitrogen Addition and Heterotroph Exclusion Affected Plant Species Diversity-Biomass Relationship by Affecting Plant Functional Traits.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Plant community richness and foliar fungicides impact soilFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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- Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity.Ecology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Plant biodiversity and consumers are important mediators of energy and carbon fluxes in grasslands, but their effects on within-season variation of plant biomass production are poorly understood. Here we measure variation in control of plant biomass by consumers and plant diversity throughout the growing season and their impact on plant biomass phenology. To do this, we analysed 5 years of biweekly biomass measures (NDVI) in an experiment manipulating plant species richness and three consumer groups (foliar fungi, soil fungi and arthropods). Positive plant diversity effects on biomass were greatest early in the growing season, whereas the foliar fungicide and insecticide treatments increased biomass most late in the season. Additionally, diverse plots and plots containing foliar fungi reached maximum biomass almost a month earlier than monocultures and plots treated with foliar fungicide, demonstrating the dynamic and interactive roles that biodiversity and consumers play in regulating biomass production through the growing season.
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