Initial community evenness favours functionality under selective stress

By L. Wittebolle, M. Marzorati, Lieven Clement, Annalisa Balloi, D. Daffonchio, K. Heylen, P. Vos, W. Verstraete, N. Boon. Nature, 2009

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Subfields: Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Nitrogen addition reduced ecosystem stability regardless of its impacts on plant diversity (2019, background): “However, the few experimental tests of this hypothesis have produced mixed evidence (Isbell et al., 2009; Wittebolle et al., 2009).”
Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity–function relationships (2011, background): “For instance, Wittebolle et al. (2009) showed that microbial communities composed of 18 species of denitrifying bacteria were more functionally stabile under selective stress when the initial communities were composed to show a large evenness.”
Quality control, modeling, and visualization of CRISPR screens with MAGeCK-VISPR (2015, background): “Gini index, a common measure of income inequality in economics, can measure the evenness of sgRNA read counts [14].”
Diversity and equitability ordering profiles applied to study forest structure (2012, background): “The GC equals to half the relative mean difference in size among all the trees, and it is usually conceptualized as the area comprised between the Lorenz curve and the diagonal line-ofabsolute-equality (e.g., Wittebolle et al., 2009).”
Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation (2009, background): “This information is still limited for microbial ecosystems, but the data also relate microbial diversity to ecosystem efficiency and stabilit”
Manipulating the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant fertility (2012, background): “Recently , community evenness has also been identified as an important factor in community functioning, soil health, and plant productivity (Crowder et al. 2010; Wittebolle et al. 2009).”
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, background): “Experimental manipulation of evenness tends to have either positive or neutral effects on biomass production and associated ecosystem-level responses (Hillebrand et al. 2008, Kirwan et al. 2007, Wilsey & Polley 2004, Wilsey & Potvin 2000, Wittebolle et al. 2009).”
Insights into the resistance and resilience of the soil microbial community. (2013, background): “Manipulation of both richness and evenness of the denitrifier community revealed that resistance to salinity disturbance was lower when initial communities were highly uneven or dominated by a few species, which demonstrated that not only richness but also of evenness can be of importance for ecosys”
Dormancy contributes to the maintenance of microbial diversity (2010, neutral): “[3]”
Plant nitrogen uptake drives rhizosphere bacterial community assembly during plant growth (2015, background): “When establishing in novel environments, if B. tectorum favors a less even community, it may drive the microbial community structure and soil ecosystem properties further from its ‘natural’ state (de Vries et al., 2012; Wittebolle et al., 2009) to outcompete native plants.”
An improved model to predict the effects of changing biodiversity levels on ecosystem function (2013, background): “…& Derner 2003; Wilsey & Polley 2004; Kirwan et al. 2007; Hillebrand, Bennett & Cadotte 2008; Isbell et al. 2008; Isbell, Polley & Wilsey 2009; Wittebolle et al. 2009); species’ and functional group interactions (Kirwan et al. 2007, 2009) and phylogenetic and functional trait diversity…”
Food web stability and weighted connectance: the complexity-stability debate revisited (2016, background): “However, it can be used in other fields as well, including ecology (e.g. Arenas and Fernandez 2000; Wittebolle et al. 2009; Jiang et al. 2013).”