ArticleScience advances2022
Drought soil legacy alters drivers of plant diversity-productivity relationships in oldfield systems.
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- Genotype-Dependent Soil Legacy of Woodland Strawberry (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Volume Matters: Dilution of Soil Inoculum Reduces Positive Plant-Soil Feedback inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Legacies of consecutive summer droughts on soil-borne plant parasitic protists (Oomycota: Stramenopila and Phytomyxea: Rhizaria) and protistan consumers (Cercozoa: Rhizaria) along an experimental plant diversity gradient.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Land Use Change Reshapes Climate-Driven Diversity Patterns of Tropical Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Drought Intensity Shapes Soil Legacy Effects on Grassland Plant and Soil Microbial Communities and Their Responses to Future Drought.Global change biology · 2025Article
- A potential COJournal of advanced research · 2025Article
- Interactive effects of leaf pathogens and plant mycorrhizal type on plant diversity-productivity relationships.Ecology · 2025Article
- Agricultural soil legacy influences multitrophic interactions between crops, their pathogens and pollinators.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought.Global change biology · 2022Review
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function under Simulated Gradient Warming and Grazing.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Ecosystem functions are threatened by both recurrent droughts and declines in biodiversity at a global scale, but the drought dependency of diversity-productivity relationships remains poorly understood. Here, we use a two-phase mesocosm experiment with simulated drought and model oldfield communities (360 experimental mesocosms/plant communities) to examine drought-induced changes in soil microbial communities along a plant species richness gradient and to assess interactions between past drought (soil legacies) and subsequent drought on plant diversity-productivity relationships. We show that (i) drought decreases bacterial and fungal richness and modifies relationships between plant species richness and microbial groups; (ii) drought soil legacy increases net biodiversity effects, but responses of net biodiversity effects to plant species richness are unaffected; and (iii) linkages between plant species richness and complementarity/selection effects vary depending on past and subsequent drought. These results provide mechanistic insight into biodiversity-productivity relationships in a changing environment, with implications for the stability of ecosystem function under climate change.
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