Plant–microbial interactions facilitate grassland species coexistence at the community level
| العنوان: | Plant–microbial interactions facilitate grassland species coexistence at the community level |
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| المؤلفون: | Jiahuan Li, Shiming Tang, Adam B. Cobb, Bo Deng, Gail W. T. Wilson, Shu Xie, Kun Wang, Lizhu Guo |
| المساهمون: | Etienne group |
| المصدر: | Oikos, 129(4), 533-543. Wiley |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, plant community structure, POPULATION-DYNAMICS, SOIL FEEDBACK, media_common.quotation_subject, DIVERSITY, COMPETITION, Biology, ECOLOGY, complex mixtures, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Grassland, Competition (biology), ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI, SHIFT, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, media_common, DECLINING FORESTS, geography, Biomass (ecology), geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, interspecific competition, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, SYMBIOSIS, food and beverages, Edaphic, Plant community, Interspecific competition, plant-microbial interactions, MAINTENANCE, soil nutrient availability, Species evenness, Forb |
| الوصف: | Interspecific competition and plant-soil feedbacks are powerful drivers of plant community structure. However, across a range of edaphic conditions the interactive effects of these drivers on complex plant communities remain unclear. For example, plant-soil feedback studies focus on soil trained by a single plant species. We developed a method to assess effects of plant-microbial interactions (PMI) on a complex plant community. We established mesocosms with 13 grassland species, grown individually or together, in overgrazed or restored soil, with or without soil microbial inoculum collected from a productive and diverse native grassland. We assessed biomass production as influenced by edaphic conditions, interspecific competition and PMI. Furthermore, we assessed potential influences of interspecific competition and edaphic conditions on strength and direction of PMI. Our results indicate PMI drives negative growth responses for graminoids while forbs experience positive growth responses. Generally, interspecific competition did not alter the magnitude or direction of PMI-mediated growth responses. Edaphic conditions altered the influence of soil microbial communities on individual plant growth while PMI facilitated plant evenness. In plant community mesocosms, PMI-associated benefits were observed in overgrazed soil. However, interspecific competition overwhelmed plant growth benefits associated with soil microbial communities when plant communities were grown in restored soil. In mesocosms containing dominant grass species, interspecific competition had negative effects on species coexistence, but both positive and negative PMI partially counterbalanced this influence on plant species evenness. Understanding these mechanisms may improve our capacity to manage diverse and productive grasslands by enabling prediction of plant community composition following disturbance and subsequent restoration. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| تدمد: | 1600-0706 0030-1299 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::7fc09badab48173ec08f01fd98ec12c9Test https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.06609Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....7fc09badab48173ec08f01fd98ec12c9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 16000706 00301299 |
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