An examination of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in arable soil microbial communities

By B. Griffiths, Karl Ritz, R. Wheatley, H. Kuan, B. Boag, S. Christensen, F. Ekelund, S. Sørensen, S. Muller, J. Bloem. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Soil Science

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The biological and physical stability and resilience of a selection of Scottish soils to stresses (2007, methodology): “A uniaxial compression and rebound test simulated the effect of compaction caused by vehicular traffic, based on the tests described by Griffiths et al. (2005) and Gregory et al. (2006).”
Arbuscular mycorrhiza and soil nitrogen cycling (2012, background): “However, they may exert indirect effects through modifying the microbial community so that the degradation ability of organic matter is enhanced (e.g. Griffiths et al., 2001; Liebich et al., 2007).”
Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings (2017, background): “Some studies found no consistent relationship between bacterial diversity and litter decomposition, concluding that a low number of species sufficed for efficient decomposition (Griffiths et al., 2001; Franklin and Mills, 2006).”
Fifteen years of climate change manipulations alter soil microbial communities in a subarctic heath ecosystem (2007, background): “These changes can have implications for the soil processes, because microbial community composition and diversity affect the rates of various microbial processes in different ways (Griffiths et al., 2000, 2001).”
Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity–function relationships (2011, background): “…that manipulated communities with more than 10 species (64, 46 and 35%, respectively) when including studies where richness was not quantitatively determined, but probably greatly exceeded 10 species (Salonius, 1981; Horwath et al., 1996; Meyer et al., 1998; Griffiths et al., 2000, 2001, 2004).”
Linking species richness, biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil systems (2005, unknown): “One approach is by gamma irradiating sieved soils and inoculating them with suspensions of fullstrength, 10(2), 10(4) and 10(6)-fold dilutions of soil organisms (Griffiths et al., 2001).”
Microbial diversity and soil functions (2003, background): “BIOLOG1 is nowadays much in favour to measure microbial functional diversity in soil because the utilization of available carbon is the key factor governing microbial growth in soil (Garland & Mills, 1991; Insam & Rangger, 1997).”
Biodiversity: Function and Assessment in Agricultural Areas: A Review (2005, background): “[50, 51] illustrated another complexity of ecosystem functioning: the redundancy of functional groups by a stress-on-stress experiment.”
Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses (2012, background): “Rapid and repetitive changes in the use of soil or stress effects imposed on soil communities (Griffiths et al., 2001), as well as individual plant species and variations in plant community composition (Kardol et al., 2010), have much stronger effects on belowground communities than habitat…”
Insights into the resistance and resilience of the soil microbial community. (2013, background): “Thus, fumigation in particular may have selected for certain physiological traits in the surviving microorganisms (Griffiths et al., 2000, 2001b), while changes in stability are thought to be related to the traits of individual species in the community (Griffiths et al., 2004).”
Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil (2013, background): “However, experimental decrease of microbial diversity did not alter either ‘broad’ or ‘narrow’ processes such as thymidine and leucine incorporation, carbon mineralization, denitrification and nitrification (Griffiths et al., 2001; Wertz et al., 2006).”
Microorganisms as indicators of soil health (2002, background): “The benefit of a high genetic diversity is currently under debate because it is not always correlated to functional diversity 40 (Griffiths et al. 2000; Griffiths et al. 2001).”