Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities.

By F. D. de Vries, P. Manning, J. Tallowin, S. Mortimer, E. Pilgrim, Kathryn A. Harrison, P. Hobbs, H. Quirk, Bill Shipley, J. H. C. Cornelissen and 2 more. Ecology Letters, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in Tibetan alpine and global terrestrial ecosystems (2016, background): “First, previous studies mainly targeted temperate grasslands (Drenovsky et al., 2010; de Vries et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2014a, 2015; Hu et al., 2014; Ma et al., 2015).”
Soil organic matter availability and climate drive latitudinal patterns in bacterial diversity from tropical to cold temperate forests (2018, background): “In addition to SOM and soil pH, previous studies have reported that some other edaphic factors (e.g., soil texture, available P content) also played important roles in influencing soil bacterial diversity (Bergkemper et al., 2016; de Vries et al., 2012).”
Below‐ground connections underlying above‐ground food production: a framework for optimising ecological connections in the rhizosphere (2017, background): “…evidence that plant traits, and in particular root traits, can predict soil faunal and microbial community structure and functioning (De Vries et al. 2012b; Grigulis et al. 2013; De Vries & Bardgett 2016; Legay et al. 2016), there is only limited evidence that links plant traits to…”
Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition (2015, background): “The maximum was a mean of the highest ﬁve values, thus reducing the inﬂuence of outliers (Zavaleta et al. 2010).”
Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities (2014, background): “…in edaphic properties (Griffiths et al., 2011) such as pH (Fierer and Jackson, 2006; Lauber et al., 2009), phosphorus (Grayston et al., 2004; Allison et al., 2007; de Vries et al., 2012; Silva et al., 2012), texture (Carson et al., 2010) and mineralogy (Carson et al., 2009; Reith et al., 2012).”
Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services (2013, background): “…variation in soil microbial community composition can be explained by certain plant traits, along with other climatic and soil factors (De Vries et al. 2012), and that concomitant variations in leaf economics traits and the relative abundance of fungi and soil bacteria (F : B ratio) are…”