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Stroud JT, Delory BM, Barnes EM, Chase JM, De Meester L, Dieskau J, Grainger TN, Halliday FW, Kardol P, Knight TM, Ladouceur E, Little CJ, Roscher C, Sarneel JM, Temperton VM, van Steijn TLH, Werner CM, Wood CW, Fukami T. Priority effects transcend scales and disciplines in biology. Trends Ecol Evol 2024:S0169-5347(24)00041-7. [PMID: 38508922 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 02/12/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
Abstract
Although primarily studied through the lens of community ecology, phenomena consistent with priority effects appear to be widespread across many different scenarios spanning a broad range of spatial, temporal, and biological scales. However, communication between these research fields is inconsistent and has resulted in a fragmented co-citation landscape, likely due to the diversity of terms used to refer to priority effects across these fields. We review these related terms, and the biological contexts in which they are used, to facilitate greater cross-disciplinary cohesion in research on priority effects. In breaking down these semantic barriers, we aim to provide a framework to better understand the conditions and mechanisms of priority effects, and their consequences across spatial and temporal scales.
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- J T Stroud
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
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- Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany; Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Leibniz Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB), Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Strasse 1-3, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther University, Germany
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umeå, Sweden
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Halle (Saale), Germany; Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umea University, 901 87 Umea, Sweden
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- Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umea University, 901 87 Umea, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Sustainability, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR 97520, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Hupperts SF, Islam KS, Gundale MJ, Kardol P, Sundqvist MK. Warming influences carbon and nitrogen assimilation between a widespread Ericaceous shrub and root-associated fungi. New Phytol 2024; 241:1062-1073. [PMID: 37950517 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
Abstract
High-latitude ecosystems are warming faster than other biomes and are often dominated by a ground layer of Ericaceous shrubs, which can respond positively to warming. The carbon-for-nitrogen (C-for-N) exchange between Ericaceous shrubs and root-associated fungi may underlie shrub responses to warming, but has been understudied. In a glasshouse setting, we examined the effects of warming on the C-for-N exchange between the Ericaceous shrub Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum and its root-associated fungi. We applied different 13 C and 15 N isotope labels, including a simple organic N form (glycine) and a complex organic N form (moss litter) and quantified their assimilation into soil, plant biomass, and root fungal biomass pools. We found that warming lowered the amount of 13 C partitioned to root-associated fungi per unit of glycine 15 N assimilated by E. nigrum, but only in the short term. By contrast, warming increased the amount of 13 C partitioned to root-associated fungi per unit of moss 15 N assimilated by E. nigrum. Our study suggests that climate warming affects the short-term exchange of C and N between a widespread Ericaceous shrub and root-associated fungi. Furthermore, while most isotope tracing studies use labile N sources, we demonstrate that a ubiquitous recalcitrant N source may produce contrasting results.
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- Stefan F Hupperts
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
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Zhang Y, Cao J, Lu M, Kardol P, Wang J, Fan G, Kong D. The origin of bi-dimensionality in plant root traits. Trends Ecol Evol 2024; 39:78-88. [PMID: 37777374 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Revised: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/02/2023]
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Plant roots show extraordinary diversity in form and function in heterogeneous environments. Mounting evidence has shown global bi-dimensionality in root traits, the root economics spectrum (RES), and an orthogonal dimension describing mycorrhizal collaboration; however, the origin of the bi-dimensionality remains unresolved. Here, we propose that bi-dimensionality arises from the cylindrical geometry of roots, allometry between root cortex and stele, and independence between root cell wall thickness and cell number. Root geometry and mycorrhizal collaboration may both underlie the bi-dimensionality. Further, we emphasize why plant roots should be cylindrical rather than flat. Finally, we highlight the need to integrate organ-, cellular-, and molecular-level processes driving the bi-dimensionality in plant roots to fully understand plant diversity and functions.
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- Yue Zhang
- College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 75007, Sweden; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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Long K, Yin R, Kardol P, Wei Q, Li Y, Huang J. Bamboo invasion alters Collembola community composition varying with life-forms. Pest Manag Sci 2023; 79:2517-2526. [PMID: 36864785 DOI: 10.1002/ps.7434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Plant invasions are a global concern. In eastern China, bamboo is rapidly expanding, negatively influencing neighbouring forest communities. However, studies on how bamboo invasion affects belowground communities, especially for soil invertebrates, are still lacking. In the present study, we focused on a highly abundant and diverse fauna taxon - Collembola. Collembola communities have three typical life-forms (i.e., epedaphic, hemiedaphic, and euedaphic) inhabiting different soil layers and playing distinct roles in ecological processes. Specifically, we studied their abundance, diversity, and community composition at the three stages of bamboo invasion: uninvaded secondary broadleaf forest, moderately invaded mixed bamboo forest, and completely invaded bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) forest. RESULTS Our results showed that bamboo invasion negatively influenced Collembola communities by decreasing their abundance and diversity. Moreover, Collembola life-forms differed in their responses to bamboo invasion, with surface-dwelling Collembola being more vulnerable to bamboo invasion than soil-living Collembola. CONCLUSION Our findings indicate differential response patterns to bamboo invasion within Collembola communities. The negative effects of bamboo invasion on soil surface-dwelling Collembola may further influence ecosystem functioning. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Kui Long
- Department of Forestry Protection, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany
- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forestry Protection, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Forestry Protection, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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Bowd EJ, Egidi E, Lindenmayer DB, Wardle DA, Kardol P, Foster C. Temporal dynamics of soil fungi in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest. Mol Ecol 2023. [PMID: 37277929 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Fire is a major evolutionary and ecological driver that shapes biodiversity in forests. While above-ground community responses to fire have been well-documented, those below-ground are much less understood. However, below-ground communities, including fungi, play key roles in forests and facilitate the recovery of other organisms after fire. Here, we used internal transcribed spacer (ITS) meta-barcoding data from forests with three different times since fire [short (3 years), medium (13-19 years) and long (>26 years)] to characterize the temporal responses of soil fungal communities across functional groups, ectomycorrhizal exploration strategies and inter-guild associations. Our findings indicate that fire effects on fungal communities are strongest in the short to medium term, with clear distinctions between communities in forests with a short time (3 years) since fire, a medium time (13-19 years) and a long time (>26 years) since fire. Ectomycorrhizal fungi were disproportionately impacted by fire relative to saprotrophs, but the direction of the response varied depending on morphological structures and exploration strategies. For instance, short-distance ectomycorrhizal fungi increased with recent fire, while medium-distance (fringe) ectomycorrhizal fungi decreased. Further, we detected strong, negative inter-guild associations between ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi but only at medium and long times since fire. Given the functional significance of fungi, the temporal changes in fungal composition, inter-guild associations and functional groups after fire demonstrated in our study may have functional implications that require adaptive management to curtail.
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- Elle J Bowd
- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
- Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Yin R, Qin W, Wang X, Xie D, Wang H, Zhao H, Zhang Z, He JS, Schädler M, Kardol P, Eisenhauer N, Zhu B. Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2159. [PMID: 37061533 PMCID: PMC10105701 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37938-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/17/2023] Open
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Long-term observations have shown that many plants and aboveground animals have changed their phenology patterns due to warmer temperatures over the past decades. However, empirical evidence for phenological shifts in alpine organisms, particularly belowground organisms, is scarce. Here, we investigate how the activities and phenology of plants, soil microbes, and soil fauna will respond to warming in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau, and whether their potential phenological changes will be synchronized. We experimentally simulate an increase in soil temperature by 2-4 °C according to future projections for this region. We find that warming promotes plant growth, soil microbial respiration, and soil fauna feeding by 8%, 57%, and 20%, respectively, but causes dissimilar changes in their phenology during the growing season. Specifically, warming advances soil faunal feeding activity in spring and delays it in autumn, while their peak activity does not change; whereas warming increases the peak activity of plant growth and soil microbial respiration but with only minor shifts in their phenology. Such phenological asynchrony in alpine organisms may alter ecosystem functioning and stability.
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- Rui Yin
- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, and College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, and College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Qinghai Haibei National Field Research Station of Alpine Grassland Ecosystem, and Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, and College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieder-Strasse 4, 06110, Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750-07, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Puschstr. 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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War AF, Bashir I, Reshi ZA, Kardol P, Rashid I. Insights into the seed microbiome and its ecological significance in plant life. Microbiol Res 2023; 269:127318. [PMID: 36753851 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2023.127318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/01/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In recent years, the microbiome has attracted much attention because of the multiple roles and functions that microbes play in plants, animals, and human beings. Seed-associated microbes are of particular interest in being the initial microbial inoculum that affects the critical early life stages of a plant. The seed-microbe interactions are also known to improve nutrient acquisition, resilience against pathogens, and resistance against abiotic stresses. Despite these diverse roles, the seed microbiome has received little attention in plant ecology. Thus, we review the current knowledge on seed microbial diversity, community structure, and functions obtained through culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches. Furthermore, we present a comprehensive synthesis of the ecological literature on seed-microbe interactions to better understand the impact of these interactions on plant health and productivity. We suggest that future research should focus on the role of the seed microbiome in the establishment, colonization and spread of plant species in their native and non-native ranges as it may provide new insights into conservation biology and invasion ecology.
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- Aadil Farooq War
- Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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- Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S 901 83 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Shao Y, Wang Z, Liu T, Kardol P, Ma C, Hu Y, Cui Y, Zhao C, Zhang W, Guo D, Fu S. Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20230107. [PMID: 36855871 PMCID: PMC9975660 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Nematodes are the most abundant multi-cellular animals in soil, influencing key processes and functions in terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, little is known about the drivers of nematode abundance and diversity in forest soils across climatic zones. This is despite forests covering approximately 30% of the Earth's land surface, providing many crucial ecosystem services but strongly varying in climatic conditions and associated ecosystem properties across biogeographic zones. Here, we collected nematode samples from 13 forests across a latitudinal gradient. We divided this gradient into temperate, warm-temperate and tropical climatic zones and found that, across the gradient, nematode abundance and diversity were mainly influenced by soil organic carbon content. However, mean annual temperature and total soil phosphorus content in temperate zones, soil pH in warm-temperate zones, and mean annual precipitation in tropical zones were more important in driving nematode alpha-diversity, biomass and abundance. Additionally, nematode beta-diversity was higher in temperate than in warm-temperate and tropical zones. Together, our findings demonstrate that the drivers of nematode diversity in forested ecosystems are affected by the spatial scale and climatic conditions considered. This implies that high resolution studies are needed to accurately predict how soil functions respond if climate conditions move beyond the coping range of soil organisms.
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- Yuanhu Shao
- Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions, Ministry of Education, College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, People's Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, 756 51 Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 907 51 Umeå, Sweden
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- Center of Forest Ecosystem Studies and Qianyanzhou Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions, Ministry of Education, College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, People's Republic of China
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- International Joint Research Laboratory for Global Change Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions, Ministry of Education, College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, People's Republic of China
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- Center of Forest Ecosystem Studies and Qianyanzhou Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions, Ministry of Education, College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, People's Republic of China
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Gerrits GM, Waenink R, Aradottir AL, Buisson E, Dutoit T, Ferreira MC, Fontaine JB, Jaunatre R, Kardol P, Loeb R, Magro Ruiz S, Maltz M, Pärtel M, Peco B, Piqueray J, Pilon NAL, Santa‐Regina I, Schmidt KT, Sengl P, van Diggelen R, Vieira DLM, von Brackel W, Waryszak P, Wills TJ, Marrs RH, Wubs ERJ. Synthesis on the effectiveness of soil translocation for plant community restoration. J Appl Ecol 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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- Gijs M. Gerrits
- Mathematical and Statistical Methods Group (Biometris) Wageningen University and Research Wageningen The Netherlands
- Department of Terrestrial Ecology Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University and Research Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences Agricultural University of Iceland Reykjavik Iceland
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- Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE) Avignon University, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD Avignon France
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- Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE) Avignon University, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD Avignon France
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- Ecology Graduate Program Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasília Brasília Brazil
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- Environmental and Conservation Sciences Murdoch University Perth Australia
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- Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE) Avignon University, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD Avignon France
- University of Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM St‐Martin‐d'Hères France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Umeå Sweden
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- B‐WARE Research Centre Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Riverside, Center for Conservation Biology University of California Riverside California USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences University of Tartu Tartu Estonia
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG), Department of Ecology Institute for Biodiversity and Global Change, Autonomous University of Madrid Madrid Spain
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- Engineering office for Biology Sankt Anna am Aigen Austria
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- Department of Biology Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology Brasília Brazil
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- Büro für Vegetationskundlich‐Ökologische Gutachten & Lichenologie Röttenbach Germany
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- Deakin University Burwood Victoria Australia
- University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba Queensland Australia
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- The Ecology Office Pty Ltd Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- School of Environmental Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool UK
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Wageningen The Netherlands
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Gu X, Smaill SJ, Wang B, Liu Z, Xu X, Hao Y, Kardol P, Zhou X. Reducing plant-derived ethylene concentrations increases the resistance of temperate grassland to drought. Sci Total Environ 2022; 846:157408. [PMID: 35850345 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Model predictions indicate that extreme drought events will occur more frequently by the end of this century, with major implications for terrestrial ecosystem functions such as plant productivity and soil respiration. Previous studies have shown that drought-induced ethylene produced by plants is a key factor affecting plant growth and development, but the impact of drought-induced ethylene on ecosystem functions in natural settings has not yet been tested. Here, we reduced the amount of plant-derived ethylene concentrations by adding the ethylene inhibitor aminoethoxyvinylglycine (AVG), and investigated in situ plant productivity, soil respiration and ethylene concentrations for two years in a semi-arid temperate grassland in Inner Mongolia, China. Drought significantly reduced plant productivity and soil respiration, but the application of AVG reduced ethylene concentrations and significantly increased aboveground plant productivity and soil respiration, effectively enhancing resistance to drought. The reason for this could be that AVG application increased the activity of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase and abundance of the acdS gene (the key gene for ACC deaminase), facilitating reduced ACC concentrations in the plant tissue and reduced in planta ethylene synthesis. In addition, there was a significant correlation between soil ACC deaminase activity and plant productivity. Given the global distribution of arid and semi-arid areas, and the expected increases in the frequency and intensity of drought stress, this is a significant concern. These results provide novel evidence of the impact of drought-induced plant ethylene production on ecosystem functions in semi-arid temperate grassland ecosystems.
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- Xinyun Gu
- Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Eco-Chongming, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Scion, PO Box 29237, Riccarton, Christchurch 8440, New Zealand
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- Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Eco-Chongming, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Eco-Chongming, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Department of Forest Ecology & Management, Umea, Sweden
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- Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Eco-Chongming, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
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Fanin N, Clemmensen KE, Lindahl BD, Farrell M, Nilsson MC, Gundale MJ, Kardol P, Wardle DA. Ericoid shrubs shape fungal communities and suppress organic matter decomposition in boreal forests. New Phytol 2022; 236:684-697. [PMID: 35779014 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Mycorrhizal fungi associated with boreal trees and ericaceous shrubs are central actors in organic matter (OM) accumulation through their belowground carbon allocation, their potential capacity to mine organic matter for nitrogen (N) and their ability to suppress saprotrophs. Yet, interactions between co-occurring ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF), ericoid mycorrhizal fungi (ERI), and saprotrophs are poorly understood. We used a long-term (19 yr) plant functional group manipulation experiment with removals of tree roots, ericaceous shrubs and mosses and analysed the responses of different fungal guilds (assessed by metabarcoding) and their interactions in relation to OM quality (assessed by mid-infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance) and decomposition (litter mesh-bags) across a 5000-yr post-fire boreal forest chronosequence. We found that the removal of ericaceous shrubs and associated ERI changed the composition of EMF communities, with larger effects occurring at earlier stages of the chronosequence. Removal of shrubs was associated with enhanced N availability, litter decomposition and enrichment of the recalcitrant OM fraction. We conclude that increasing abundance of slow-growing ericaceous shrubs and the associated fungi contributes to increasing nutrient limitation, impaired decomposition and progressive OM accumulation in boreal forests, particularly towards later successional stages. These results are indicative of the contrasting roles of EMF and ERI in regulating belowground OM storage.
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- Nicolas Fanin
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
- INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, UMR 1391 ISPA, 71 avenue Edouard Bourlaux, CS 20032, F33882, Villenave-d'Ornon cedex, France
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, SE-75007, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7014, SE-75007, Uppsala, Sweden
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- CSIRO Agriculture & Food, Kaurna Country, Locked Bag 2, Glen Osmond, South Australia, 5064, Australia
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore City, 639798, Singapore
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Grau-Andrés R, Thieffry S, Tian S, Wardle DA, Kardol P. Responses of bryosphere fauna to drought across a boreal forest chronosequence. Oecologia 2022; 200:231-245. [PMID: 36074302 PMCID: PMC9547781 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05255-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Projected changes in precipitation regimes can greatly impact soil biota, which in turn alters key ecosystem functions. In moss-dominated ecosystems, the bryosphere (i.e., the ground moss layer including live and senesced moss) plays a key role in carbon and nutrient cycling, and it hosts high abundances of microfauna (i.e., nematodes and tardigrades) and mesofauna (i.e., mites and springtails). However, we know very little about how bryosphere fauna responds to precipitation, and whether this response changes across environmental gradients. Here, we used a mesocosm experiment to study the effect of volume and frequency of precipitation on the abundance and community composition of functional groups of bryosphere fauna. Hylocomium splendens bryospheres were sampled from a long-term post-fire boreal forest chronosequence in northern Sweden which varies greatly in environmental conditions. We found that reduced precipitation promoted the abundance of total microfauna and of total mesofauna, but impaired predaceous/omnivorous nematodes, and springtails. Generally, bryosphere fauna responded more strongly to precipitation volume than to precipitation frequency. For some faunal functional groups, the effects of precipitation frequency were stronger at reduced precipitation volumes. Context-dependency effects were found for microfauna only: microfauna was more sensitive to precipitation in late-successional forests (i.e., those with lower productivity and soil nutrient availability) than in earlier-successional forests. Our results also suggest that drought-induced changes in trophic interactions and food resources in the bryosphere may increase faunal abundance. Consequently, drier bryospheres that may result from climate change could promote carbon and nutrient turnover from fauna activity, especially in older, less productive forests.
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- Roger Grau-Andrés
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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Liu W, Yuan W, Xu S, Shao C, Hou L, Xu W, Shi H, Pan Q, Li L, Kardol P. Corrigendum to "Spatiotemporal patterns and drivers of methane uptake across a climate transect in Inner Mongolia Steppe" [Sci. Total Environ. 757 (2021) 143768]. Sci Total Environ 2022; 837:155834. [PMID: 35588682 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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- Wei Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Center for Monsoon and Environment Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519082, China
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science, The University of Tennessee, 2506 E J Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- National Hulunber Grassland Ecosystem Observation and Research Station & Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Center for Monsoon and Environment Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 901 83, Sweden
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Zhang C, Xue W, Xue J, Zhang J, Qiu L, Chen X, Hu F, Kardol P, Liu M. Leveraging functional traits of cover crops to coordinate crop productivity and soil health. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Chongzhe Zhang
- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Key Laboratory of Biological Interaction and Crop Health Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Key Laboratory of Biological Interaction and Crop Health Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Key Laboratory of Biological Interaction and Crop Health Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Key Laboratory of Biological Interaction and Crop Health Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
- Centre for Grassland Microbiome, College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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Spitzer CM, Sundqvist MK, Wardle DA, Gundale MJ, Kardol P. Root trait variation along a sub‐arctic tundra elevational gradient. OIKOS 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.08903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Clydecia M. Spitzer
- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological Univ. Singapore Singapore
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- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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Jassey VEJ, Walcker R, Kardol P, Geisen S, Heger T, Lamentowicz M, Hamard S, Lara E. Contribution of soil algae to the global carbon cycle. New Phytol 2022; 234:64-76. [PMID: 35103312 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Soil photoautotrophic prokaryotes and micro-eukaryotes - known as soil algae - are, together with heterotrophic microorganisms, a constitutive part of the microbiome in surface soils. Similar to plants, they fix atmospheric carbon (C) through photosynthesis for their own growth, yet their contribution to global and regional biogeochemical C cycling still remains quantitatively elusive. Here, we compiled an extensive dataset on soil algae to generate a better understanding of their distribution across biomes and predict their productivity at a global scale by means of machine learning modelling. We found that, on average, (5.5 ± 3.4) × 106 algae inhabit each gram of surface soil. Soil algal abundance especially peaked in acidic, moist and vegetated soils. We estimate that, globally, soil algae take up around 3.6 Pg C per year, which corresponds to c. 6% of the net primary production of terrestrial vegetation. We demonstrate that the C fixed by soil algae is crucial to the global C cycle and should be integrated into land-based efforts to mitigate C emissions.
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- Vincent E J Jassey
- Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 31062, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 31062, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183, Umeå, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Soil Science and Environment Group, Changins, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western, 1260, Nyon, Switzerland
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- Climate Change Ecology Research Unit, Adam Mickiewicz University, 60-001, Poznań, Poland
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- Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 31062, Toulouse, France
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- Real Jardin Botanico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014, Madrid, Spain
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Jing X, Muys B, Baeten L, Bruelheide H, De Wandeler H, Desie E, Hättenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Jucker T, Kardol P, Pollastrini M, Ratcliffe S, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Selvi F, Vancampenhout K, van der Plas F, Verheyen K, Vesterdal L, Zuo J, Van Meerbeek K. Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability. Sci Total Environ 2022; 812:152560. [PMID: 34952080 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 11/26/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Tree species diversity promotes multiple ecosystem functions and services. However, little is known about how above- and belowground resource availability (light, nutrients, and water) and resource uptake capacity mediate tree species diversity effects on aboveground wood productivity and temporal stability of productivity in European forests and whether the effects differ between humid and arid regions. We used the data from six major European forest types along a latitudinal gradient to address those two questions. We found that neither leaf area index (a proxy for light uptake capacity), nor fine root biomass (a proxy for soil nutrient and water uptake capacity) was related to tree species richness. Leaf area index did, however, enhance productivity, but negatively affected stability. Productivity was further promoted by soil nutrient availability, while stability was enhanced by fine root biomass. We only found a positive effect of tree species richness on productivity in arid regions and a positive effect on stability in humid regions. This indicates a possible disconnection between productivity and stability regarding tree species richness effects. In other words, the mechanisms that drive the positive effects of tree species richness on productivity do not per se benefit stability simultaneously. Our findings therefore suggest that tree species richness effects are largely mediated by differences in climatic conditions rather than by differences in above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity at the regional scales.
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- Xin Jing
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, BE-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
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- Institute of Biology / Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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- CEFE, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ. Paul-Valéry Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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- INRAE, University of Bordeaux, BIOGECO, F-33610 Cestas, France.
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Sportowa 19, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland.
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skogsmarksgränd, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden.
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- University of Firenze, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, Firenze, Italy.
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- Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schaenzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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- University of Firenze, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, Firenze, Italy.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700, AA Wageningen, the Netherlands; Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Life science, Leipzig University, Germany
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, BE-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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Haider S, Lembrechts JJ, McDougall K, Pauchard A, Alexander JM, Barros A, Cavieres LA, Rashid I, Rew LJ, Aleksanyan A, Arévalo JR, Aschero V, Chisholm C, Clark VR, Clavel J, Daehler C, Dar PA, Dietz H, Dimarco RD, Edwards P, Essl F, Fuentes‐Lillo E, Guisan A, Gwate O, Hargreaves AL, Jakobs G, Jiménez A, Kardol P, Kueffer C, Larson C, Lenoir J, Lenzner B, Padrón Mederos MA, Mihoc M, Milbau A, Morgan JW, Müllerová J, Naylor BJ, Nijs I, Nuñez MA, Otto R, Preuk N, Ratier Backes A, Reshi ZA, Rumpf SB, Sandoya V, Schroder M, Speziale KL, Urbach D, Valencia G, Vandvik V, Vitková M, Vorstenbosch T, Walker TWN, Walsh N, Wright G, Zong S, Seipel T. Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8590. [PMID: 35222963 PMCID: PMC8844121 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range shifts are often idiosyncratic and difficult to generalize, partly due to variation in sampling methods. There is thus a need for a standardized monitoring strategy that can be applied across mountain regions to assess distribution changes and community turnover of native and non‐native plant species over space and time. Here, we present a conceptually intuitive and standardized protocol developed by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) to systematically quantify global patterns of native and non‐native species distributions along elevation gradients and shifts arising from interactive effects of climate change and human disturbance. Usually repeated every five years, surveys consist of 20 sample sites located at equal elevation increments along three replicate roads per sampling region. At each site, three plots extend from the side of a mountain road into surrounding natural vegetation. The protocol has been successfully used in 18 regions worldwide from 2007 to present. Analyses of one point in time already generated some salient results, and revealed region‐specific elevational patterns of native plant species richness, but a globally consistent elevational decline in non‐native species richness. Non‐native plants were also more abundant directly adjacent to road edges, suggesting that disturbed roadsides serve as a vector for invasions into mountains. From the upcoming analyses of time series, even more exciting results can be expected, especially about range shifts. Implementing the protocol in more mountain regions globally would help to generate a more complete picture of how global change alters species distributions. This would inform conservation policy in mountain ecosystems, where some conservation policies remain poorly implemented.
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- Sylvia Haider
- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Halle Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- Research group Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO) University of Antwerp Wilrijk Belgium
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- Department of Planning, Industry and Environment Queanbeyan New South Wales Australia
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- Laboratorio de Invasiones Biologicas (LIB) Facultad de Ciencias Forestales Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) Santiago Chile
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- Instituto Argentino de Nivología y Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA) Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT) CONICET Mendoza Mendoza Argentina
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- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) Santiago Chile
- Departamento de Botánica Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
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- Department of Botany University of Kashmir Srinagar India
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- Department of Land Resource and Environmental Sciences Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecophysiology Institute of Botany aft. A.L. Takhtajyan NAS RA Yerevan Armenia
- Chair of Biology and Biotechnologies Armenian National Agrarian University Yerevan Armenia
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology University of La Laguna La Laguna Spain
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- Instituto Argentino de Nivología y Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA) Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT) CONICET Mendoza Mendoza Argentina
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- Afromontane Research Unit & Department of Geography University of the Free State: Qwaqwa Campus Phuthaditjhaba South Africa
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- Research group Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO) University of Antwerp Wilrijk Belgium
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- School of Life Sciences University of Hawai'i at Manoa Honolulu Hawaii USA
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- Institute of Integrative Biology ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
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- Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos IFAB (INTA‐CONICET) Bariloche Argentina
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry University of Houston Houston Texas USA
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- Institute of Integrative Biology ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
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- Bioinvasions, Global Change, Macroecology Group Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Research group Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO) University of Antwerp Wilrijk Belgium
- Laboratorio de Invasiones Biologicas (LIB) Facultad de Ciencias Forestales Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) Santiago Chile
- School of Education and Social Sciences Adventist University of Chile Chillán Chile
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- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics & Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
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- Afromontane Research Unit & Department of Geography University of the Free State: Qwaqwa Campus Phuthaditjhaba South Africa
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- Institute of Integrative Biology ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
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- Laboratorio de Invasiones Biologicas (LIB) Facultad de Ciencias Forestales Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) Santiago Chile
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Institute of Integrative Biology ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
- Department of Botany and Zoology Centre for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University Matieland South Africa
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- Department of Land Resource and Environmental Sciences Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- UR “Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés” (EDYSAN UMR 7058 CNRS) Université de Picardie Jules Verne Amiens France
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- Bioinvasions, Global Change, Macroecology Group Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) Santiago Chile
- Departamento de Botánica Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest – INBO Brussels Belgium
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- Department of Ecology Environment and Evolution La Trobe University Bundoora Victoria Australia
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- Department of GIS and Remote Sensing Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Průhonice Czech Republic
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- Research group Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO) University of Antwerp Wilrijk Belgium
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry University of Houston Houston Texas USA
- Grupo Ecología de Invasiones Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente CONICET ‐ Universidad Nacional del Comahue Bariloche Argentina
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology University of La Laguna La Laguna Spain
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- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Halle Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Halle Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- Department of Botany University of Kashmir Srinagar India
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
- Department of Environmental Sciences University of Basel Basel Switzerland
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology Yachay Tech University Urcuquí Ecuador
- CREAF Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
- Unitat d'Ecologia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
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- Department of Planning, Industry and Environment Jindabyne New South Wales Australia
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- Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment Institute of Plant Sciences University of Bern Bern Switzerland
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- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) Santiago Chile
- Departamento de Botánica Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Bergen Bergen Norway
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- Department of Invasion Ecology Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Průhonice Czech Republic
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- Bioinvasions, Global Change, Macroecology Group Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research University of Vienna Vienna Austria
- Institute of Biology Leiden Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands
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- Institute of Integrative Biology ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
- Institute of Biology University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel Switzerland
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- Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- Department of Planning, Industry and Environment NSW Government, Biodiversity and Conservation Queanbeyan New South Wales Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains Ministry of Education School of Geographical Sciences Northeast Normal University Changchun China
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- Department of Land Resource and Environmental Sciences Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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Grau-Andrés R, Wardle DA, Kardol P. Bryosphere Loss Impairs Litter Decomposition Consistently Across Moss Species, Litter Types, and Micro-Arthropod Abundance. Ecosystems 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00731-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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AbstractThe bryosphere (that is, ground mosses and their associated biota) is a key driver of nutrient and carbon dynamics in many terrestrial ecosystems, in part because it regulates litter decomposition. However, we have a poor understanding of how litter decomposition responds to changes in the bryosphere, including changes in bryosphere cover, moss species, and bryosphere-associated biota. Specifically, the contribution of micro-arthropods to litter decomposition in the bryosphere is unclear. Here, we used a 16-month litterbag field experiment in two boreal forests to investigate bryosphere effects on litter decomposition rates among two moss species (Pleurozium schreberi and Hylocomium splendens), and two litter types (higher-quality Betula pendula litter and lower-quality P. schreberi litter). Additionally, we counted all micro-arthropods in the litterbags and identified them to functional groups. We found that bryosphere removal reduced litter decomposition rates by 28% and micro-arthropod abundance by 29% and led to a colder micro-climate. Litter decomposition rates and micro-arthropod abundance were uncorrelated overall, but were positively correlated in B. pendula litterbags. Bryosphere effects on litter decomposition rates were consistent across moss species, litter types, and micro-arthropod abundances and community compositions. These findings suggest that micro-arthropods play a minor role in litter decomposition in the boreal forest floor, suggesting that other factors (for example, micro-climate, nutrient availability) likely drive the positive effect of the bryosphere on decomposition rates. Our results point to a substantial and consistent impairment of litter decomposition in response to loss of moss cover, which could have important implications for nutrient and carbon cycling in moss-dominated ecosystems.
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Liu Y, Duan D, Jiang F, Tian Z, Feng X, Wu N, Hou F, Kardol P, Nan Z, Chen T. Long‐term heavy grazing increases community‐level foliar fungal diseases by shifting plant composition. J Appl Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yong Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
- Industrial Crop Research Institute of Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences Chengdu China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems Center for Grassland Microbiome College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
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Huang K, Kardol P, Yan X, Luo X, Guo H. Plant–soil biota interactions explain shifts in plant community composition under global change. Funct Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Kailing Huang
- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
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Ning Q, Hättenschwiler S, Lü X, Kardol P, Zhang Y, Wei C, Xu C, Huang J, Li A, Yang J, Wang J, Peng Y, Peñuelas J, Sardans J, He J, Xu Z, Gao Y, Han X. Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:5976-5988. [PMID: 34343388 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Higher ecosystem nitrogen (N) inputs resulting from human activities often suppress soil microbial biomass and respiration, thereby altering biogeochemical cycling. Soil acidification and carbon (C) limitation may drive these microbial responses, yet their relative importance remains elusive, which limits our understanding of the longer term effects of increasing N inputs. In a field experiment with continuous N addition at seven different rates from 0 to 50 g N m-2 year-1 over 6 years in a temperate grassland of Inner Mongolia, China, we examined the responses of soil microbial biomass and respiration to changes in soil acidity and C availability by adding lime and/or glucose to soil samples. Soil microbial biomass and respiration did only weakly respond to increasing soil pH, but increased strongly in response to higher C availability with increasing N addition rates. Soil net N immobilization increased in response to glucose addition, and soil microbial biomass increased at higher rates than microbial respiration along the gradient of previous N addition rates, both suggesting increasingly reinforced microbial C limitation with increasing N addition. Our results provide clear evidence for strong N-induced microbial C limitation, but only little support for soil acidity effects within the initial pH range of 4.73-7.86 covered by our study. Field data support this conclusion by showing reduced plant C allocation belowground in response to N addition, resulting in soil microbial C starvation over the long term. In conclusion, soil microbial biomass and respiration under N addition were strongly dependent on C availability, most likely originating from plant belowground C inputs, and was much less affected by changes in soil pH. Our data help clarify a long-standing debate about how increasing N input rates affect soil microbial biomass and respiration, and improve the mechanistic understanding of the linkages between ecosystem N enrichment and C cycling.
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- Qiushi Ning
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
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- Erguna Forest-Steppe Ecotone Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
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- Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-Geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
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- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Erguna Forest-Steppe Ecotone Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
- College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Wei Q, Yin R, Huang J, Vogler AP, Li Y, Miao X, Kardol P. The diversity of soil mesofauna declines after bamboo invasion in subtropical China. Sci Total Environ 2021; 789:147982. [PMID: 34052488 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Revised: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Plant invasions often act as ecosystem 'simplifiers' to simplify diversity and community structure of soil biota. However, inconsistent relationships between plant invasion and soil fauna have been found and few studies have addressed how soil fauna communities change upon plant invasions across taxa and feeding guilds. Here, we investigated the effects of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) invasion in subtropical China on soil mesofauna communities using novel high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Specifically, we analyzed the spatio-temporal dynamics of fauna diversity and feeding guilds in the litter and soil layers for three stages of moso bamboo invasion, i.e., uninvaded (secondary broadleaved forest), moderately invaded (mixed bamboo forest) and completely invaded (P. edulis forest). Overall, we found that the completely invaded bamboo forest decreased species richness and diversity of total fauna, herbivores, and microbivores consistently across different soil layers, but less so detritivores and predators. Although we did not find any interaction effects of bamboo invasion and soil layers on soil fauna diversity indices, significant interaction effects were found on the community composition, for total fauna and their feeding guilds. Specifically, the detrimental effects of bamboo invasion on the trophic structure of soil fauna communities were more profound in the litter layer than in the soil layer, suggesting that a litter layer with more diverse taxa does not mean higher resistance to plant invasion in maintaining the soil food web structure. Taken together, our findings suggest that different responses within fauna feeding guilds to plant invasion were pervasive, and a deeper soil layer may better alleviate the negative effects of pant invasion on fauna community structure. These shifts in soil biodiversity may further degrade ecosystem functioning.
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- Qiaoyu Wei
- Department of Forestry Protection, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311300, China
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, 06110 Halle (Saale), Germany; Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Forestry Protection, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311300, China.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.; Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
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- Department of Forestry Protection, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311300, China
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83 Umeå, Sweden
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Nuske SJ, Fajardo A, Nuñez MA, Pauchard A, Wardle DA, Nilsson MC, Kardol P, Smith JE, Peltzer DA, Moyano J, Gundale MJ. Soil biotic and abiotic effects on seedling growth exhibit context-dependent interactions: evidence from a multi-country experiment on Pinus contorta invasion. New Phytol 2021; 232:303-317. [PMID: 33966267 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The success of invasive plants is influenced by many interacting factors, but evaluating multiple possible mechanisms of invasion success and elucidating the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers is challenging, and therefore rarely achieved. We used live, sterile or inoculated soil from different soil origins (native range and introduced range plantation; and invaded plots spanning three different countries) in a fully factorial design to simultaneously examine the influence of soil origin and soil abiotic and biotic factors on the growth of invasive Pinus contorta. Our results displayed significant context dependency in that certain soil abiotic conditions in the introduced ranges (soil nitrogen, phosphorus or carbon content) influenced responses to inoculation treatments. Our findings do not support the enemy release hypothesis or the enhanced mutualism hypothesis, as biota from native and plantation ranges promoted growth similarly. Instead, our results support the missed mutualism hypothesis, as biota from invasive ranges were the least beneficial for seedling growth. Our study provides a novel perspective on how variation in soil abiotic factors can influence plant-soil feedbacks for an invasive tree across broad biogeographical contexts.
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- Susan J Nuske
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinario (I3), Universidad de Talca, Campus Lircay, Talca, 3460000, Chile
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- Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones, INIBIOMA-UNComa, CONICET, Bariloche, 8400, Argentina
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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- Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB), Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
- Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Santiago, Chile
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- Asian School of the Environment, College of Science, Nanyong Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden
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- US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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- Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, 7608, New Zealand
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- Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones, INIBIOMA-UNComa, CONICET, Bariloche, 8400, Argentina
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden
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Jing X, Muys B, Bruelheide H, Desie E, Hättenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Kardol P, Ratcliffe S, Scherer‐Lorenzen M, Selvi F, Vancampenhout K, van der Plas F, Verheyen K, Vesterdal L, Zuo J, Van Meerbeek K. Above‐ and below‐ground complementarity rather than selection drive tree diversity–productivity relationships in European forests. Funct Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Xin Jing
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences KU Leuven Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences KU Leuven Leuven Belgium
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- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Halle (Saale) Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig Germany
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences KU Leuven Leuven Belgium
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- CEFE University of Montpellier CNRS EPHE IRD University of Paul‐Valéry Montpellier Montpellier France
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- INRAE University of BordeauxBIOGECO Cestas France
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station Faculty of Biology University of Warsaw Białowieża Poland
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Department of Agriculture, Food Environment and Forestry University of Firenze Firenze Italy
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- Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity Life Science Leipzig University Germany
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Forest and Nature Lab Campus Gontrode Department of Environment Ghent University Melle‐Gontrode Belgium
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg C Denmark
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences KU Leuven Leuven Belgium
- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology Wuhan Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan China
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Thakur MP, van der Putten WH, Wilschut RA, Veen GFC, Kardol P, van Ruijven J, Allan E, Roscher C, van Kleunen M, Bezemer TM. Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Temporal Dynamics of Plant Diversity-Productivity Relationships. Trends Ecol Evol 2021; 36:651-661. [PMID: 33888322 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Plant-soil feedback (PSF) and diversity-productivity relationships are important research fields to study drivers and consequences of changes in plant biodiversity. While studies suggest that positive plant diversity-productivity relationships can be explained by variation in PSF in diverse plant communities, key questions on their temporal relationships remain. Here, we discuss three processes that change PSF over time in diverse plant communities, and their effects on temporal dynamics of diversity-productivity relationships: spatial redistribution and changes in dominance of plant species; phenotypic shifts in plant traits; and dilution of soil pathogens and increase in soil mutualists. Disentangling these processes in plant diversity experiments will yield new insights into how plant diversity-productivity relationships change over time.
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- Madhav P Thakur
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO- KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands; Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78464, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO- KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Physiological Diversity - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78464, Konstanz, Germany; Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, China
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO- KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology, Section Plant Ecology and Phytochemistry, Leiden University, 2300, RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Grau‐Andrés R, Wardle DA, Nilsson M, Kardol P. Precipitation regime controls bryosphere carbon cycling similarly across contrasting ecosystems. OIKOS 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.07749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Roger Grau‐Andrés
- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Umeå Sweden
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- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Umeå Sweden
- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological Univ. Singapore Singapore
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- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Umeå Sweden
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- Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Umeå Sweden
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Liu W, Yuan W, Xu S, Shao C, Hou L, Xu W, Shi H, Pan Q, Li L, Kardol P. Spatiotemporal patterns and drivers of methane uptake across a climate transect in Inner Mongolia Steppe. Sci Total Environ 2021; 757:143768. [PMID: 33229097 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Steppe soils are important biological sinks for atmospheric methane (CH4), but the strength of CH4 uptake remains uncertain due to large spatiotemporal variation and the lack of in situ measurements at regional scale. Here, we report the seasonal and spatial patterns of CH4 uptake across a 1200 km transect in arid and semi-arid steppe ecosystems in Inner Mongolia, ranging from meadow steppe in the east plain to typical and desert steppes on the west plateau. In general, seasonal patterns of CH4 uptake were site specific, with unimodal seasonal curves in meadow and typical steppes and a decreasing seasonal trend in desert steppe. Soil moisture was the dominant factor explaining the seasonal patterns of CH4 uptake, and CH4 uptake rate decreased with an increase in soil moisture. Across the transect, CH4 uptake showed a skewed unimodal spatial pattern, with the peak rate observed in the typical steppe sites and with generally higher uptake rates in the west plateau than in the east plain. Soil moisture, together with soil temperature, soil total carbon, and aboveground plant biomass, were the main drivers of the regional patterns of CH4 uptake rate. These findings are important for model development to more precisely estimate the soil CH4 sink capacity in arid and semi-arid regions.
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- Wei Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Center for Monsoon and Environment Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519082, China
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science, The University of Tennessee, 2506 E J Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- National Hulunber Grassland Ecosystem Observation and Research Station & Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Center for Monsoon and Environment Research, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 901 83, Sweden
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Spitzer CM, Lindahl B, Wardle DA, Sundqvist MK, Gundale MJ, Fanin N, Kardol P. Root trait-microbial relationships across tundra plant species. New Phytol 2021; 229:1508-1520. [PMID: 33007155 PMCID: PMC7821200 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Fine roots, and their functional traits, influence associated rhizosphere microorganisms via root exudation and root litter quality. However, little information is known about their relationship with rhizosphere microbial taxa and functional guilds. We investigated the relationships of 11 fine root traits of 20 sub-arctic tundra meadow plant species and soil microbial community composition, using phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and high-throughput sequencing. We primarily focused on the root economics spectrum, as it provides a useful framework to examine plant strategies by integrating the co-ordination of belowground root traits along a resource acquisition-conservation trade-off axis. We found that the chemical axis of the fine root economics spectrum was positively related to fungal to bacterial ratios, but negatively to Gram-positive to Gram-negative bacterial ratios. However, this spectrum was unrelated to the relative abundance of functional guilds of soil fungi. Nevertheless, the relative abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi was positively correlated to root carbon content, but negatively to the numbers of root forks per root length. Our results suggest that the fine root economics spectrum is important for predicting broader groups of soil microorganisms (i.e. fungi and bacteria), while individual root traits may be more important for predicting soil microbial taxa and functional guilds.
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- Clydecia M. Spitzer
- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesSkogsmarksgrändUmeå901 83Sweden
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- Department of Soil and EnvironmentSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesBox 7014Uppsala750 07Sweden
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- Asian School of the EnvironmentNanyang Technological University50 Nanyang AvenueSingapore639798Singapore
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesSkogsmarksgrändUmeå901 83Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesSkogsmarksgrändUmeå901 83Sweden
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- INRAEBordeaux Sciences AgroUMR 1391 ISPA71 Avenue Edouard BourlauxVillenave‐d’Ornon CedexCS20032, F33882France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesSkogsmarksgrändUmeå901 83Sweden
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Reinhart KO, Bauer JT, McCarthy‐Neumann S, MacDougall AS, Hierro JL, Chiuffo MC, Mangan SA, Heinze J, Bergmann J, Joshi J, Duncan RP, Diez JM, Kardol P, Rutten G, Fischer M, van der Putten WH, Bezemer TM, Klironomos J. Globally, plant-soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:1756-1768. [PMID: 33614002 PMCID: PMC7882948 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) have been shown to strongly affect plant performance under controlled conditions, and PSFs are thought to have far reaching consequences for plant population dynamics and the structuring of plant communities. However, thus far the relationship between PSF and plant species abundance in the field is not consistent. Here, we synthesize PSF experiments from tropical forests to semiarid grasslands, and test for a positive relationship between plant abundance in the field and PSFs estimated from controlled bioassays. We meta-analyzed results from 22 PSF experiments and found an overall positive correlation (0.12 ≤ r ¯ ≤ 0.32) between plant abundance in the field and PSFs across plant functional types (herbaceous and woody plants) but also variation by plant functional type. Thus, our analysis provides quantitative support that plant abundance has a general albeit weak positive relationship with PSFs across ecosystems. Overall, our results suggest that harmful soil biota tend to accumulate around and disproportionately impact species that are rare. However, data for the herbaceous species, which are most common in the literature, had no significant abundance-PSFs relationship. Therefore, we conclude that further work is needed within and across biomes, succession stages and plant types, both under controlled and field conditions, while separating PSF effects from other drivers (e.g., herbivory, competition, disturbance) of plant abundance to tease apart the role of soil biota in causing patterns of plant rarity versus commonness.
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- Kurt O. Reinhart
- Fort Keogh Livestock & Range Research LaboratoryUnited States Department of Agriculture‐ Agricultural Research ServiceMiles CityMTUSA
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- Department of BiologyInstitute for the Environment and SustainabilityMiami UniversityOxfordOHUSA
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- Laboratorio de EcologíaBiogeografía y Evolución Vegetal (LEByEV)Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra y Ambientales de La Pampa (INCITAP)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)‐Universidad Nacional de La Pampa (UNLPam)Santa RosaArgentina
- Departamento de BiologíaFacultad de Ciencias Exactas y NaturalesUNLPamSanta RosaArgentina
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- Grupo de Ecología de InvasionesINIBIOMAUniversidad Nacional del ComahueCONICETSan Carlos de BarilocheArgentina
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- Department of Biological SciencesArkansas State UniversityJonesboroARUSA
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- Institute of Biochemistry and BiologyUniversity of PotsdamPotsdamGermany
- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)BerlinGermany
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- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)BerlinGermany
- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)MünchebergGermany
- Institut für BiologiePlant EcologyFreie Universität BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)BerlinGermany
- Institute for Landscape and Open SpaceEastern Switzerland University of Applied SciencesSt. GallenSwitzerland
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- Centre for Conservation Ecology and GeneticsInstitute for Applied EcologyUniversity of CanberraCanberraACTAustralia
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- Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of OregonEugeneORUSA
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeåSweden
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- Institute of Plant ScienceUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA)Université Grenoble AlpesUMR CNRS‐UGA‐USMB 5553GrenobleFrance
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- Institute of Plant ScienceUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Department of Terrestrial EcologyNetherlands Institute of EcologyWageningenThe Netherlands
- Laboratory of NematologyWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Terrestrial EcologyNetherlands Institute of EcologyWageningenThe Netherlands
- Institute of BiologySection Plant Ecology and PhytochemistryLeiden UniversityLeidenThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of British ColumbiaKelownaBCCanada
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Kong D, Wang J, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Kardol P. A framework to assess the carbon supply-consumption balance in plant roots. New Phytol 2021; 229:659-664. [PMID: 32654148 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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- Deliang Kong
- College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
- Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Change, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110866, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden
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Ren Y, Zhang L, Yang K, Li Z, Yin R, Tan B, Wang L, Liu Y, Li H, You C, Liu S, Xu Z, Kardol P. Short-term effects of snow cover manipulation on soil bacterial diversity and community composition. Sci Total Environ 2020; 741:140454. [PMID: 32610243 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Winter snow cover is a major driver of soil microbial processes in high-latitude and high-altitude ecosystems. Warming-induced reduction in snow cover as predicted under future climate scenarios may shift soil bacterial communities with consequences for soil carbon and nutrient cycling. The underlying mechanisms, however, remain elusive. In the present study, we conducted a snow manipulation experiment in a Tibetan spruce forest to explore the immediate and intra-annual legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil bacterial communities. We analyzed bacterial diversity and community composition in the winter (i.e., the deep snow season), in the transitional thawing period, and in the middle of the growing season. Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Actinobacteria were dominant phyla across the seasons and snow regimes. Bacterial diversity was generally not particularly sensitive to the absence of snow cover. However, snow exclusion positively affected Simpson diversity in the winter but not in the thawing period and the growing season. Bacterial diversity further tended to be higher in winter than in the growing season. In the winter, the taxonomic composition shifted in response to snow exclusion, while composition did not differ between exclusion and control plots in the thawing period and the growing season. Soil bacterial communities strongly varied across seasons, and the variations differed in specific groups. Both soil climatic factors (i.e., temperature and moisture) and soil biochemical variables partly accounted for the seasonal dynamics of bacterial communities. Taken together, our study indicates that soil bacterial communities in Tibetan forests are rather resilient to change in snow cover, at least at an intra-annual scale.
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- Yuzhi Ren
- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, CSIC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, 06110 Halle (Saale), Germany; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83 Umeå, Sweden
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Forestry Ecological Engineering in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province & National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecological Safety on the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River & Rainy Area of West China Plantation Ecosystem Permanent Scientific Research Base & Institute of Ecology & Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China.
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83 Umeå, Sweden
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Henneron L, Kardol P, Wardle DA, Cros C, Fontaine S. Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies. New Phytol 2020; 228:1269-1282. [PMID: 32562506 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Understanding how plant species influence soil nutrient cycling is a major theme in terrestrial ecosystem ecology. However, the prevailing paradigm has mostly focused on litter decomposition, while rhizosphere effects on soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition have attracted little attention. Using a dual 13 C/15 N labeling approach in a 'common garden' glasshouse experiment, we investigated how the economic strategies of 12 grassland plant species (graminoids, forbs and legumes) drive soil nitrogen (N) cycling via rhizosphere processes, and how this in turn affects plant N acquisition and growth. Acquisitive species with higher photosynthesis, carbon rhizodeposition and N uptake than conservative species induced a stronger acceleration of soil N cycling through rhizosphere priming of SOM decomposition. This allowed them to take up larger amounts of N and allocate it above ground to promote photosynthesis, thereby sustaining their faster growth. The N2 -fixation ability of legumes enhanced rhizosphere priming by promoting photosynthesis and rhizodeposition. Our study demonstrates that the economic strategies of plant species regulate a plant-soil carbon-nitrogen feedback operating through the rhizosphere. These findings provide novel mechanistic insights into how plant species with contrasting economic strategies sustain their nutrition and growth through regulating the cycling of nutrients by soil microbes in their rhizosphere.
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- Ludovic Henneron
- UREP - UMR Ecosystème Prairial, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
- ECODIV, Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, Rouen, 76000, France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 901 83, Sweden
- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore
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- UREP - UMR Ecosystème Prairial, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France
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- UREP - UMR Ecosystème Prairial, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France
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Grau-Andrés R, Wardle DA, Gundale MJ, Foster CN, Kardol P. Effects of plant functional group removal on CO 2 fluxes and belowground C stocks across contrasting ecosystems. Ecology 2020; 101:e03170. [PMID: 32846007 PMCID: PMC7757239 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Changes in plant communities can have large effects on ecosystem carbon (C) dynamics and long‐term C stocks. However, how these effects are mediated by environmental context or vary among ecosystems is not well understood. To study this, we used a long‐term plant removal experiment set up across 30 forested lake islands in northern Sweden that collectively represent a strong gradient of soil fertility and ecosystem productivity. We measured forest floor CO2 exchange and aboveground and belowground C stocks for a 22‐yr experiment involving factorial removal of the two dominant functional groups of the boreal forest understory, namely ericaceous dwarf shrubs and feather mosses, on each of the 30 islands. We found that long‐term shrub and moss removal increased forest floor net CO2 loss and decreased belowground C stocks consistently across the islands irrespective of their productivity or soil fertility. However, we did see context‐dependent responses of respiration to shrub removals because removals only increased respiration on islands of intermediate productivity. Both CO2 exchange and C stocks responded more strongly to shrub removal than to moss removal. Shrub removal reduced gross primary productivity of the forest floor consistently across the island gradient, but it had no effect on respiration, which suggests that loss of belowground C caused by the removals was driven by reduced litter inputs. Across the island gradient, shrub removal consistently depleted C stocks in the soil organic horizon by 0.8 kg C/m2. Our results show that the effect of plant functional group diversity on C dynamics can be relatively consistent across contrasting ecosystems that vary greatly in productivity and soil fertility. These findings underline the key role of understory vegetation in forest C cycling, and suggest that global change leading to changes in the relative abundance of both shrubs and mosses could impact on the capacity of boreal forests to store C.
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- Roger Grau-Andrés
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden.,Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
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Yin R, Kardol P, Thakur MP, Gruss I, Wu GL, Eisenhauer N, Schädler M. Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: intensive land use outweighs climate change. Soil Biol Biochem 2020; 147:107847. [PMID: 32884602 PMCID: PMC7116016 DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Climate change and land use intensification are the two most common global change drivers of biodiversity loss. Like other organisms, the soil meso-fauna are expected to modify their functional diversity and composition in response to climate and land use changes. Here, we investigated the functional responses of Collembola, one of the most abundant and ecologically important groups of soil invertebrates. This study was conducted at the Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF) in central Germany, where we tested the effects of climate (ambient vs. 'future' as projected for this region for the years between 2070 and 2100), land use (conventional farming, organic farming, intensively-used meadow, extensively-used meadow, and extensively-used pasture), and their interactions on the functional diversity (FD), community-weighted mean (CWM) traits (life-history, morphology), and functional composition of Collembola, as well as the Soil Biological Quality-Collembola (QBS-c) index. We found that land use was overwhelmingly the dominant driver of shifts in functional diversity, functional traits, and functional composition of Collembola, and of shifts in soil biological quality. These significant land use effects were mainly due to the differences between the two main land use types, i.e. cropland vs. grasslands. Specifically, Collembola functional biodiversity and soil biological quality were significantly lower in croplands than grasslands. However, no interactive effect of climate × land use was found in this study, suggesting that land use effects on Collembola were independent of the climate change scenario. Overall, our study shows that functional responses of Collembola are highly vulnerable to land use intensification under both climate scenarios. We conclude that land use changes reduce functional biodiversity and biological quality of soil.
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- Rui Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, 06110 Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Institute for Biology, Leipzig University, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, 06110 Halle (Saale), Germany
- Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Plant Protection, Plac Grunwaldzki 24 A, 50363 Wroclaw, Poland
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Institute for Biology, Leipzig University, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, 06110 Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Wang Q, Lv W, Li B, Zhou Y, Jiang L, Piao S, Wang Y, Zhang L, Meng F, Liu P, Hong H, Li Y, Dorji T, Luo C, Zhang Z, Ciais P, Peñuelas J, Kardol P, Zhou H, Wang S. Annual ecosystem respiration is resistant to changes in freeze-thaw periods in semi-arid permafrost. Glob Chang Biol 2020; 26:2630-2641. [PMID: 31883193 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Warming in cold regions alters freezing and thawing (F-T) of soil in winter, exposing soil organic carbon to decomposition. Carbon-rich permafrost is expected to release more CO2 to the atmosphere through ecosystem respiration (Re) under future climate scenarios. However, the mechanisms of the responses of freeze-thaw periods to climate change and their coupling with Re in situ are poorly understood. Here, using 2 years of continuous data, we test how changes in F-T events relate to annual Re under four warming levels and precipitation addition in a semi-arid grassland with discontinuous alpine permafrost. Warming shortened the entire F-T period because the frozen period shortened more than the extended freezing period. It decreased total Re during the F-T period mainly due to decrease in mean Re rate. However, warming did not alter annual Re because of reduced soil water content and the small contribution of total Re during the F-T period to annual Re. Although there were no effects of precipitation addition alone or interactions with warming on F-T events, precipitation addition increased total Re during the F-T period and the whole year. This decoupling between changes in soil freeze-thaw events and annual Re could result from their different driving factors. Our results suggest that annual Re could be mainly determined by soil water content rather than by change in freeze-thaw periods induced by warming in semi-arid alpine permafrost.
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- Qi Wang
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Grassland, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Northwestern Institute of Plateau Biology, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology of Cold Area, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Northwestern Institute of Plateau Biology, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology of Cold Area, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Northwestern Institute of Plateau Biology, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology of Cold Area, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment, CEA CNRS UVSQ, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- CREAF, Barcelona, Spain
- Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CEAB-CSIC-UAB, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Northwestern Institute of Plateau Biology, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology of Cold Area, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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van den Hoogen J, Geisen S, Wall DH, Wardle DA, Traunspurger W, de Goede RGM, Adams BJ, Ahmad W, Ferris H, Bardgett RD, Bonkowski M, Campos-Herrera R, Cares JE, Caruso T, de Brito Caixeta L, Chen X, Costa SR, Creamer R, da Cunha E Castro JM, Dam M, Djigal D, Escuer M, Griffiths BS, Gutiérrez C, Hohberg K, Kalinkina D, Kardol P, Kergunteuil A, Korthals G, Krashevska V, Kudrin AA, Li Q, Liang W, Magilton M, Marais M, Martín JAR, Matveeva E, Mayad EH, Mzough E, Mulder C, Mullin P, Neilson R, Nguyen TAD, Nielsen UN, Okada H, Rius JEP, Pan K, Peneva V, Pellissier L, da Silva JCP, Pitteloud C, Powers TO, Powers K, Quist CW, Rasmann S, Moreno SS, Scheu S, Setälä H, Sushchuk A, Tiunov AV, Trap J, Vestergård M, Villenave C, Waeyenberge L, Wilschut RA, Wright DG, Keith AM, Yang JI, Schmidt O, Bouharroud R, Ferji Z, van der Putten WH, Routh D, Crowther TW. A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. Sci Data 2020; 7:103. [PMID: 32218461 PMCID: PMC7099023 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0437-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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As the most abundant animals on earth, nematodes are a dominant component of the soil community. They play critical roles in regulating biogeochemical cycles and vegetation dynamics within and across landscapes and are an indicator of soil biological activity. Here, we present a comprehensive global dataset of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. This dataset includes 6,825 georeferenced soil samples from all continents and biomes. For geospatial mapping purposes these samples are aggregated into 1,933 unique 1-km pixels, each of which is linked to 73 global environmental covariate data layers. Altogether, this dataset can help to gain insight into the spatial distribution patterns of soil nematode abundance and community composition, and the environmental drivers shaping these patterns.
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- Johan van den Hoogen
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Soil Biology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Monte L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Nematode Biodiversity Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Terrestrial Ecology, University of Cologne and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Cologne, Germany
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- Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (Universidad de La Rioja, CSIC, Gobierno de La Rioja), Logroño, Spain
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- Department of Phytopathology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Phytopathology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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- Soil Ecology Laboratory, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Soil Biology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Trópico Semiárido, Petrolina, Brazil
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- Zealand Institute of Business and Technology, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles/CDH, Dakar, Senegal
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- Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany
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- Institute of Biology of Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Functional Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- J. F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Biology of the Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Erguna Forest-Steppe Ecotone Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- Erguna Forest-Steppe Ecotone Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK
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- Nematology Unit, Agricultural Research Council, Plant Health and Protection, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institute of Biology of Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Biotechnology and Valorization of Natural Resources, Faculty of Science Agadir, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biotechnology and Valorization of Natural Resources, Faculty of Science Agadir, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Ecological Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Terrestrial Ecology, University of Cologne and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Cologne, Germany
- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Nematode Management Group, Division of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Ecological Processes and Biodiversity, Center for Ecological Studies, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Plant Protection Products Unit, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
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- J. F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
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- Institute of Biology of Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia
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- A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Eco&Sols, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Agroecology, AU-Flakkebjerg, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Eco&Sols, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
- ELISOL Environnement, Congénies, France
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- Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, UK
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, UK
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Research Unit of Integrated Crop Production, Centre Regional de la Recherche Agronomique d'Agadir, Agadir, Morocco
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- Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Campus d'Agadir, Département de Protection des Plantes, Agadir, Morocco
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Wu G, Liu Y, Cui Z, Liu Y, Shi Z, Yin R, Kardol P. Trade‐off between vegetation type, soil erosion control and surface water in global semi‐arid regions: A meta‐analysis. J Appl Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Gao‐Lin Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Northwest A&F University Yangling China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resource Yangling China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change Xi'an China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Northwest A&F University Yangling China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Northwest A&F University Yangling China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resource Yangling China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Northwest A&F University Yangling China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resource Yangling China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resource Yangling China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change Xi'an China
- College of Resources and Environment Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Northwest A&F University Yangling China
- Department of Community Ecology Helmholtz‐Centre for Environmental Research‐UFZ Halle (Saale) Germany
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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Halbritter AH, De Boeck HJ, Eycott AE, Reinsch S, Robinson DA, Vicca S, Berauer B, Christiansen CT, Estiarte M, Grünzweig JM, Gya R, Hansen K, Jentsch A, Lee H, Linder S, Marshall J, Peñuelas J, Kappel Schmidt I, Stuart‐Haëntjens E, Wilfahrt P, Vandvik V, Abrantes N, Almagro M, Althuizen IHJ, Barrio IC, te Beest M, Beier C, Beil I, Berry ZC, Birkemoe T, Bjerke JW, Blonder B, Blume‐Werry G, Bohrer G, Campos I, Cernusak LA, Chojnicki BH, Cosby BJ, Dickman LT, Djukic I, Filella I, Fuchslueger L, Gargallo‐Garriga A, Gillespie MAK, Goldsmith GR, Gough C, Halliday FW, Joar Hegland S, Hoch G, Holub P, Jaroszynska F, Johnson DM, Jones SB, Kardol P, Keizer JJ, Klem K, Konestabo HS, Kreyling J, Kröel‐Dulay G, Landhäusser SM, Larsen KS, Leblans N, Lebron I, Lehmann MM, Lembrechts JJ, Lenz A, Linstädter A, Llusià J, Macias‐Fauria M, Malyshev AV, Mänd P, Marshall M, Matheny AM, McDowell N, Meier IC, Meinzer FC, Michaletz ST, Miller ML, Muffler L, Oravec M, Ostonen I, Porcar‐Castell A, Preece C, Prentice IC, Radujković D, Ravolainen V, Ribbons R, Ruppert JC, Sack L, Sardans J, Schindlbacher A, Scoffoni C, Sigurdsson BD, Smart S, Smith SW, Soper F, Speed JDM, Sverdrup‐Thygeson A, Sydenham MAK, Taghizadeh‐Toosi A, Telford RJ, Tielbörger K, Töpper JP, Urban O, Ploeg M, Van Langenhove L, Večeřová K, Ven A, Verbruggen E, Vik U, Weigel R, Wohlgemuth T, Wood LK, Zinnert J, Zurba K. The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx). Methods Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Aud H. Halbritter
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research University of Bergen Bergen Norway
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- Department of Biology Centre of Excellence PLECO (Plants and Ecosystems) Universiteit Antwerpen Wilrijk Belgium
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Bergen Bergen Norway
- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture Nord University Steinkjer Norway
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- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Environment Centre Wales Bangor UK
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- Department of Biology Centre of Excellence PLECO (Plants and Ecosystems) Universiteit Antwerpen Wilrijk Belgium
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology University of Bayreuth Bayreuth Germany
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- CSIC Global Ecology Unit CREAF‐CSIC‐UAB Bellaterra Spain
- CREAF Vallès Spain
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- Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rehovot Israel
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research University of Bergen Bergen Norway
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- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Stockholm Sweden
- Swedish Environmental Research Institute IVL Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology University of Bayreuth Bayreuth Germany
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- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Bergen Norway
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Alnarp Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- CSIC Global Ecology Unit CREAF‐CSIC‐UAB Bellaterra Spain
- CREAF Vallès Spain
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology University of Bayreuth Bayreuth Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research University of Bergen Bergen Norway
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Kong D, Wang J, Wu H, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Wang R, Zeng H, Kardol P, Zhang H, Feng Y. Nonlinearity of root trait relationships and the root economics spectrum. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2203. [PMID: 31101818 PMCID: PMC6525182 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10245-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The root economics spectrum (RES), a common hypothesis postulating a tradeoff between resource acquisition and conservation traits, is being challenged by conflicting relationships between root diameter, tissue density (RTD) and root nitrogen concentration (RN). Here, we analyze a global trait dataset of absorptive roots for over 800 plant species. For woody species (but not for non-woody species), we find nonlinear relationships between root diameter and RTD and RN, which stem from the allometric relationship between stele and cortical tissues. These nonlinear relationships explain how sampling bias from different ends of the nonlinear curves can result in conflicting trait relationships. Further, the shape of the relationships varies depending on evolutionary context and mycorrhizal affiliation. Importantly, the observed nonlinear trait relationships do not support the RES predictions. Allometry-based nonlinearity of root trait relationships improves our understanding of the ecology, physiology and evolution of absorptive roots. Kong et al. use a global trait dataset of 800 plant species to examine the root economics spectrum in relation to root diameter, tissue density and root nitrogen concentration. Nonlinear trait relationships were observed, suggesting allometry-based nonlinearity in root trait relationships.
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- Deliang Kong
- Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Change, Shenyang Agricultural University, 110866, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control, Southern University of Science and Technology, 518055, Shenzhen, China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Henan University, 475004, Kaifeng, China
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- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, China
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- Key Laboratory for Urban Habitat Environmental Science and Technology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, 518005, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183, Umeå, Sweden
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Change, Shenyang Agricultural University, 110866, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Change, Shenyang Agricultural University, 110866, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
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Fanin N, Kardol P, Farrell M, Kempel A, Ciobanu M, Nilsson MC, Gundale MJ, Wardle DA. Effects of plant functional group removal on structure and function of soil communities across contrasting ecosystems. Ecol Lett 2019; 22:1095-1103. [PMID: 30957419 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Revised: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Loss of plant diversity has an impact on ecosystems worldwide, but we lack a mechanistic understanding of how this loss may influence below-ground biota and ecosystem functions across contrasting ecosystems in the long term. We used the longest running biodiversity manipulation experiment across contrasting ecosystems in existence to explore the below-ground consequences of 19 years of plant functional group removals for each of 30 contrasting forested lake islands in northern Sweden. We found that, against expectations, the effects of plant removals on the communities of key groups of soil organisms (bacteria, fungi and nematodes), and organic matter quality and soil ecosystem functioning (decomposition and microbial activity) were relatively similar among islands that varied greatly in productivity and soil fertility. This highlights that, in contrast to what has been shown for plant productivity, plant biodiversity loss effects on below-ground functions can be relatively insensitive to environmental context or variation among widely contrasting ecosystems.
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- Nicolas Fanin
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden.,INRA, UMR 1391 ISPA, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, 71 avenue Edouard Bourlaux, CS, 20032, F33882, Villenave-d'Ornon cedex, France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- CSIRO Agriculture & Food, Locked bag 2, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden.,University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences, Altenbergrain 21, 3013, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biological Research, Branch of the National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Str. Republicii 48, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden.,Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798
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Teste FP, Kardol P, Turner BL, Wardle DA, Zemunik G, Renton M, Laliberté E. Toward more robust plant–soil feedback research: Comment. Ecology 2019; 100:e02590. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- François P. Teste
- Grupo de Estudios Ambientales IMASL‐CONICET & Universidad Nacional de San Luis Avenida Ejercito de los Andes 950 (5700) San Luis Argentina
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley (Perth) Western Australia 6009 Australia
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå SE‐901 83 Sweden
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley (Perth) Western Australia 6009 Australia
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 0843‐03092 Balboa Republic of Panama
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå SE‐901 83 Sweden
- Asian School of the Environment Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798 Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley (Perth) Western Australia 6009 Australia
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 0843‐03092 Balboa Republic of Panama
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley (Perth) Western Australia 6009 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley (Perth) Western Australia 6009 Australia
- Centre sur la Biodiversité Département de Sciences Biologiques Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale Université de Montréal 4101 Sherbrooke Est Montréal Quebec H1X 2B2 Canada
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Gundale MJ, Wardle DA, Kardol P, Nilsson MC. Comparison of plant-soil feedback experimental approaches for testing soil biotic interactions among ecosystems. New Phytol 2019; 221:577-587. [PMID: 30067296 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2018] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The study of interactions and feedbacks between plants and soils is a rapidly expanding research area, and a primary tool used in this field is to perform glasshouse experiments where soil biota are manipulated. Recently, there has been vigorous debate regarding the correctness of methods for carrying out these types of experiment, and specifically whether it is legitimate to mix soils from different sites or plots (mixed soil sampling, MSS) or not (independent soil sampling, ISS) to create either soil inoculum treatments or subjects. We performed the first empirical comparison of MSS vs ISS approaches by comparing growth of two boreal tree species (Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris) in soils originating from 10 sites near the boreal forest limit in northern Sweden, and 10 sites in the subarctic region where boreal forests may potentially expand as a result of climate change. We found no consistent differences in the conclusions that we reached whether we used MSS or ISS approaches. We propose that researchers should not choose a soil handling method based on arguments that one method is inherently more correct than the other, but rather that method choice should be based on correct alignment with specific research questions and goals.
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- Michael J Gundale
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Jonathan R. De Long
- Department of Terrestrial Ecology Netherlands Institute of Ecology Wageningen The Netherlands
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences The University of Manchester Manchester UK
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences The University of Manchester Manchester UK
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology Netherlands Institute of Ecology Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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Egelkraut D, Kardol P, De Long JR, Olofsson J. The role of plant–soil feedbacks in stabilizing a reindeer‐induced vegetation shift in subarctic tundra. Funct Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Dagmar Egelkraut
- Department of Ecology and Environmental ScienceUmeå University Umeå Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Department of Terrestrial EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental ScienceUmeå University Umeå Sweden
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Mariotte P, Mehrabi Z, Bezemer TM, De Deyn GB, Kulmatiski A, Drigo B, Veen G(C, van der Heijden MG, Kardol P. Plant–Soil Feedback: Bridging Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Trends Ecol Evol 2018; 33:129-142. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Revised: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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There are great concerns about the impacts of soil biodiversity loss on ecosystem functions and services such as nutrient cycling, food production, and carbon storage. A diverse community of soil organisms that together comprise a complex food web mediates such ecosystem functions and services. Recent advances have shed light on the key drivers of soil food web structure, but a conceptual integration is lacking. Here, we explore how human-induced changes in plant community composition influence soil food webs. We present a framework describing the mechanistic underpinnings of how shifts in plant litter and root traits and microclimatic variables impact on the diversity, structure, and function of the soil food web. We then illustrate our framework by discussing how shifts in plant communities resulting from land-use change, climatic change, and species invasions affect soil food web structure and functioning. We argue that unravelling the mechanistic links between plant community trait composition and soil food webs is essential to understanding the cascading effects of anthropogenic shifts in plant communities on ecosystem functions and services.
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- Paul Kardol
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Fanin N, Gundale MJ, Farrell M, Ciobanu M, Baldock JA, Nilsson MC, Kardol P, Wardle DA. Consistent effects of biodiversity loss on multifunctionality across contrasting ecosystems. Nat Ecol Evol 2017; 2:269-278. [PMID: 29255299 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0415-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Understanding how loss of biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning, and thus the delivery of ecosystem goods and services, has become increasingly necessary in a changing world. Considerable recent attention has focused on predicting how biodiversity loss simultaneously impacts multiple ecosystem functions (that is, ecosystem multifunctionality), but the ways in which these effects vary across ecosystems remain unclear. Here, we report the results of two 19-year plant diversity manipulation experiments, each established across a strong environmental gradient. Although the effects of plant and associated fungal diversity loss on individual functions frequently differed among ecosystems, the consequences of biodiversity loss for multifunctionality were relatively invariant. However, the context-dependency of biodiversity effects also worked in opposing directions for different individual functions, meaning that similar multifunctionality values across contrasting ecosystems could potentially mask important differences in the effects of biodiversity on functioning among ecosystems. Our findings highlight that an understanding of the relative contribution of species or functional groups to individual ecosystem functions among contrasting ecosystems and their interactions (that is, complementarity versus competition) is critical for guiding management efforts aimed at maintaining ecosystem multifunctionality and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services.
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- Nicolas Fanin
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden. .,Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR 1391 Interaction Soil Plant Atmosphere, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, 71 Avenue Edouard Bourlaux, Villenave-d'Ornon, France.
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Locked Bag 2, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia
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- Institute of Biological Research, Republicii Street 48, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Locked Bag 2, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.,Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore
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Gundale MJ, Wardle DA, Kardol P, Van der Putten WH, Lucas RW. Soil handling methods should be selected based on research questions and goals. New Phytol 2017; 216:18-23. [PMID: 28800145 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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- Michael J Gundale
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE901-83, Umeå, Sweden
- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE901-83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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Laliberté E, Kardol P, Didham RK, Teste FP, Turner BL, Wardle DA. Soil fertility shapes belowground food webs across a regional climate gradient. Ecol Lett 2017; 20:1273-1284. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Etienne Laliberté
- Centre sur la biodiversité Institut de recherche en biologie végétale Département de sciences biologiques Université de Montréal 4101 Sherbrooke Est Montréal QuébecH1X 2B2 Canada
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley Perth WA6009 Australia
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- Department of Forest Ecology & Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SE‐901 83 Umeå Sweden
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley Perth WA6009 Australia
- CSIRO Land & Water Centre for Environment and Life Sciences 147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat Perth WA6014 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley Perth WA6009 Australia
- Grupo de Estudios Ambientales IMASL‐CONICET & Universidad Nacional de San Luis Av. Ejército de los Andes 950 (5700) San Luis Argentina
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 0843‐03092 Balboa Ancon Republic of Panama
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- Department of Forest Ecology & Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SE‐901 83 Umeå Sweden
- Asian School of the Environment Nanyang Technological University Singapore639798 Singapore
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