Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity-productivity pattern.

By Stefan A. Schnitzer, J. Klironomos, J. HilleRisLambers, L. Kinkel, Peter B. Reich, K. Xiao, Matthias C. Rillig, Benjamin A. Sikes, R. Callaway, Scott A Mangan and 2 more. Ecology, 2011

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Manipulating the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant fertility (2012, background): “Recently, increasing soil microbial species richness was shown to be a predictor of plant health and productivity (Lau and Lennon 2011; Schnitzer et al. 2011; van der Heijden et al. 2008; Wagg et al. 2011).”
Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long‐term grassland experiment (2013, background): “Therefore, other, unidentified factors likely contributed to the higher productivity of diverse plots, such as the amelioration of pathogen effects (Maron et al. 2011, Schnitzer et al. 2011, de Kroon et al. 2012) or phenological complementarity (Fargione and Tilman 2005a).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “Instead, there is ample evidence from the Jena Experiment, and also from other studies (Mitchell, Tilman, & Groth 2002; Maron et al. 2011; Schnitzer et al. 2011), that plants in monocultures suffer from a variety of pathogens.”
Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity (2012, background): “…Bever 2001; Reynolds et al. 2003; Petermann et al. 2008; Fitzsimons & Miller 2010), a number of recent studies have focussed on the way in which soil biota may affect ecosystem productivity (van der Heijden, Bardgett & van Straalen 2008; Bever et al. 2010; Maron et al. 2011; Schnitzer et al. 2011).”
Resilience of forests to pathogens: An evolutionary ecology perspective (2015, background): “…communities suffer substantially lower root disease than mono-specific communities and that this leads to productivity gains of 40 per cent for multispecies stands over monocultures that are directly attributable to decreased root pathogen damage (Maron et al., 2011; Schnitzer et al., 2011).”
Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, methodology): “Furthermore, diﬀer-ences among plant species in attracting pests and pathogens may cause positive biodiversity eﬀects (Petermann et al. 2008; Schnitzer et al. 2011).”
Independent variations of plant and soil mixtures reveal soil feedback effects on plant community overyielding (2013, background): “The experimental treatments of soils as performed by Maron et al. (2011) and Schnitzer et al. (2011) revealed the effects of soil biota on plant diversity–functioning relationships by altering soil communities irrespective of plant species identity and thus left open the question whether these…”
Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands (2018, background): “…may, in turn, promote the fertile island effect by harbouring more beneficial and active soil microbial communities (Van der Heijden et al. 2008; Schnitzer et al. 2011), which may also enhance ecosystem functioning by mobilising and re-translocating nutrients such as N more efficiently from the…”
Assembly and ecological function of the root microbiome across angiosperm plant species (2018, background): “Overall, our results raise the possibility that patterns of root microbial recruitment among plant species, through their effects on PSF, may contribute to fundamental terrestrial ecology, such as the mechanisms underlying species coexistence (50) and ecosystem processes (21).”
Conservative species drive biomass productivity in tropical dry forests (2016, background): “Moreover, higher niche complementarity can reduce (indirectly, though lower likelihood of growing near a conspecific individuals) the negative effect of host-specific pathogens and herbivores, thereby reducing biomass mortality and increasing growth (Schnitzer et al. 2011).”
Soil microbial communities in cucumber monoculture and rotation systems and their feedback effects on cucumber seedling growth (2017, background): “In this study, the abundance of FOC, a soil-borne fungal pathogen of cucumber, was significantly higher in the monoculture system, which supported the notation that plant species-specific soil pathogen is a driver of diversity-productivity relationships (Cook 2006; Maron et al. 2011; Schnitzer et al”
Invasive plants escape from suppressive soil biota at regional scales (2014, background): “…(Van der Putten & Peters 1997; Petermann et al. 2008), alter succession (Van der Putten, Van Dijk & Peters 1993; Kardol, Bezemer & Van der Putten 2006; Kardol et al. 2007) and decrease community productivity (Van der Heijden, Bardgett & Van Straalen 2008; Maron et al. 2011; Schnitzer et al. 2011).”
Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling (2013, background): “Observed positive diversity effects in plant communities are commonly attributed to increased total resource use through niche differentiation or facilitation (Hooper et al. 2005) and/or decreased host-specific disease susceptibility (Schnitzer et al. 2011), that is, species complementarity.”
Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades (2012, background): “Other biotic effects of diversity, including reduced disease (7, 26) and decreased abundances of herbivores (27), could also change over time and contribute to the growing diversity effects on productivity and nutrient cycling.”
The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry (2019, background): “Untangling the interacting drivers of soil community diversity can reveal how soil diversity influences the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems at a global scale (63).”