ArticleEcology letters2025
Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities.
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- Can plant-soil feedbacks scale up from individual species to communities: tests of the richness and biomass-ratio hypotheses.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Differential Effects of Long-Term Fertilization and Plant Species Richness on Soil Fungi and Protists.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Interactions Between Root Traits and Fungal Functional Guilds Across the Root Economics Spectrum.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Plant diversity induces shifts from microbial generalists to specialist by enhancing niche differentiation, microbiome connectivity, and network stability in a temperate grassland.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Rooting for function: community-level fine-root traits relate to many ecosystem functions.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Disentangling Drivers of Soil Bacterial and Fungal Diversity on Tropical Islands.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species-specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare.The New phytologist · 2025Article
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Abstract
Trait-based approaches have been increasingly used to relate plants to soil microbial communities. Using the recently described root economics space as an approach to explain the structure of soil-borne fungal communities, our study in a grassland diversity experiment reveals distinct root trait strategies at the plant community level. In addition to significant effects of plant species richness, we show that the collaboration and conservation gradient are strong drivers of the composition of the different guilds of soil fungi. Saprotrophic fungi are most diverse in species-rich plant communities with 'slow' root traits, whereas plant pathogenic fungi are most diverse and abundant in communities with 'fast' and 'DIY' root traits. Fungal biomass is strongly driven by plant species richness. Our results illustrate that the root economics space and plant species richness jointly determine the effects of plants on soil fungal communities and their potential role in plant fitness and ecosystem functioning.
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