Relationship between plant species diversity and soil microbial functional diversity along a longitudinal gradient in temperate grasslands of Hulunbeir, Inner Mongolia, China

By Zhanfeng Liu, Guo-hua Liu, Bojie Fu, Xiaoxuan Zheng. Ecological research, 2008

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Unearthing the role of biological diversity in soil health (2015, background): “A potential application of the relationship of ecosystem function to abundance and diversity at the microbial level is to base the assessment on functional groups determined by the range of organic substrates that are degraded (Degens and Harris, 1997; Degens et al., 2001; Liu et al., 2008).”
Positive correlation between soil bacterial metabolic and plant species diversity and bacterial and fungal diversity in a vegetation succession on Karst (2008, background): “In our study, higher plant diversity correlated positively with higher bacterial metabolic diversity (Fig. 4a & b). A possible mechanism behind this finding could be that higher plant diversity generally leads to higher plant biomass productivity (Cardinale et al. 2007), which could then lead to lar”
Plant diversity improves protection against soil‐borne pathogens by fostering antagonistic bacterial communities (2012, background): “Therefore, varying composition of root exudates occurring in diverse plant communities may alter the abundance, composition and activity of soil microorganisms (Garbeva, van Veen& van Elsas 2004; Chung et al. 2007; Liu et al. 2008).”