Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide.

By S. Prober, J. Leff, S. Bates, Elizabeth T. Borer, J. Firn, W. Stanley Harpole, E. Lind, Eric W. Seabloom, P. Adler, J. Bakker and 17 more. Ecology Letters, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science

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Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome (2017, background): “This hierarchy is based primarily on studies that have examined spatial patterns in soil microbial communities 24,25,33,58,131–133 . www.nature.com/nrmicro”
Plant diversity represents the prevalent determinant of soil fungal community structure across temperate grasslands in northern China (2017, background): “…with recent studies reporting no significant relationship between plant and fungal alpha diversity across global grasslands (Tedersoo et al., 2014; Prober et al., 2015), but corroborated the finding that certain fungal groups responded strongly to plant diversity on a landscape scale (Tedersoo…”
FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild (2016, background): “…pools by guild (Kubartov a et al., 2012; Peay et al., 2013; Branco et al., 2013; Stursov a et al., 2014; Taylor et al., 2014; Tedersoo et al., 2014; Prober et al., 2015, Clemmensen et al., 2015), recognizing saprotrophs, ectomycorrhizal fungi, plant pathogens, animal pathogens, mycoparasites, wood…”
Soil organic matter availability and climate drive latitudinal patterns in bacterial diversity from tropical to cold temperate forests (2018, background): “Accumulating evidence indicates that plant diversity is a major driver of soil bacterial diversity and community structure at a range of spatial scales (Peay et al., 2013; Prober et al., 2015; Wardle, 2006).”
Agroforestry and Biodiversity (2019, background): “According to a recent study [137], plant diversity is positively correlated with microbial beta diversity which indicates greater microbial diversity with greater species communities [107].”
A method for simultaneous measurement of soil bacterial abundances and community composition via 16S rRNA gene sequencing (2016, background): “…soil by looking for 16S rRNA sequences from these taxa in previously published datasets: 52 soils collected from across the globe and 52 soils from Central Park in New York City (Ramirez et al., 2014) plus a set of grassland soils collected from 25 sites from across the globe (Prober et al., 2015).”