The response of a three trophic level soil food web to the identity and diversity of plant species and functional groups

By David A. Wardle, G. Yeates, W. Williamson, Karen I. Bonner. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Effects of monoculture and mixed culture of grass and legume forage species on soil microbial community structure under different levels of nitrogen fertilization (2015, background): “For example, the presence of legumes increased soil microbial biomass and activity in a semi-natural grassland in central Germany [17] and in a greenhouse experiment [18], the abundance of bacterivorous nematodes in grasslands in northern Sweden [19,20], the abundance of mites and omnivorous and pre”
Soil feedbacks of plant diversity on soil microbial communities and subsequent plant growth (2005, methodology): “The Shannon diversity index was calculated from these 38 PLFAs as a relative measure of microbial diversity (Porazinska et al., 2003; Wardle et al., 2003).”
Form and function: Metabolic footprints of nematodes in the soil food web (2010, background): “However, although plant diversity was greater in most riparian zones than in neighboring agriculturally-disturbed sites, the relationship between aboveground and belowground biodiversity was not strong, as also noted elsewhere [33,37].”
Cascading effects of predator diversity and omnivory in a marine food web (2005, background): “However, work on the effects of consumer diversity is rare (Duffy 2002; Petchey et al. 2004) (but see Naeem & Li 1998; Duffy et al. 2003) and few studies have considered plant or animal biodiversity in a food web context (Ives et al. 2005) (but see Wardle et al. 2003; Aquilino et al. 2005; Duffy e”
Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services (2013, background): “It is now well established that individual plant species (Grayston et al. 1998; Wardle et al. 2003; Harrison & Bardgett 2010), and even different genotypes (Schweitzer et al. 2008; Weinert et al. 2010), can influence the diversity and activity of microbial communities in soil.”
Light, earthworms, and soil resources as predictors of diversity of 10 soil invertebrate groups across monocultures of 14 tree species (2016, unknown): “…communities, plant species often have divergent impacts on the diversity of soil animal communities; this “ plant species identity ” effect is often larger than effects of plant species richness (Wardle et al., 2003, 2006; De Deyn et al., 2004; Ball et al., 2009; Eissfeller et al., 2013b).”
Plant species influence microbial diversity and carbon allocation in the rhizosphere (2010, background): “In natural ecosystems such as grasslands, different levels of plant species diversity can influence composition and biomass of microbial communities (Wardle and Nicholson, 1996; Kowalchuk et al., 2002; Wardle et al., 2003).”
Microbe-mediated plant-soil feedback causes historical contingency effects in plant community assembly (2007, background): “…(Brown and Gange 1990), and mutualists (Smith and Read 1997), as well as from indirect interactions with decomposing and mineralizing soil organisms (Bardgett and Shine 1999, Wardle et al. 2003, Hättenschwiler et al. 2005) or from belowground trophic chain reactions (Strong et al. 1996).”
Functional Group Identity Does not Predict Invader Impacts: Differential Effects of Nitrogen-fixing Exotic Plants on Ecosystem Function (2007, background): “Species identity within functional groups may be a more important determinant of ecosystem level impacts than functional groups themselves (Hooper and Vitousek 1998; Wardle et al. 2003).”
Changes in soil microbial and nematode communities during ecosystem decline across a long-term chronosequence (2005, background): “…address: williamsonw@landcareresearch.co.nz (W.M. Williamson). catastrophic disturbance, an ecosystem decline phase has often been observed, during which there is a long-term reduction in ecosystem productivity and plant biomass (Walker et al., 1983; Crews et al., 1995; Wardle et al., 1997, 2003a).”