ArticleNature ecology & evolution2022
Changes in precipitation patterns can destabilize plant species coexistence via changes in plant-soil feedback.
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- Fungal and bacterial pathogenic co-infections mainly lead to the assembly of microbial community in tobacco stems.Open life sciences · 2025Article
- Negative plant-soil feedbacks disproportionally affect dominant plants, facilitating coexistence in plant communities.npj biodiversity · 2023Article
- Drought Eliminates the Difference in Root Trait Plasticity and Mycorrhizal Responsiveness of Two Semiarid Grassland Species with Contrasting Root System.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Water shifts the balance of coexistence.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Climate change can alter species coexistence through changes in biotic interactions. By describing reciprocal interactions between plants and soil microbes, plant-soil feedback (PSF) has emerged as a powerful framework for predicting plant species coexistence and community dynamics, but little is known about how PSF will respond to changing climate conditions. Hence, the context dependency of PSF has recently gained attention. Water availability is a major driver of all biotic interactions, and it is expected that precipitation patterns will change with ongoing climate change. We tested how soil water content affects PSF by conducting a full factorial pairwise PSF experiment using eight plant species common to southeastern United States coastal prairies under three watering treatments. We found coexistence-stabilizing negative PSF at drier-than-average conditions shifted to coexistence-destabilizing positive PSF under wetter-than-average conditions. A simulation model parameterized with the experimental results supports the prediction that more positive PSF accelerates the erosion of diversity within communities while decreasing the predictability in plant community composition. Our results underline the importance of considering environmental context dependency of PSF in light of a rapidly changing climate.
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