Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

By Cameron Wagg, S. Bender, F. Widmer, Marcel G A van der Heijden. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Deciphering the associations between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality driven by long‐term fertilization management (2018, methodology): “…while the total impact of the soil microbial community composition was small since direct effects were counterbalanced by indirect effects on EMF (Figure 5), community composition could also notably steer the EMF in various directions (Bender et al., 2016; Mori et al., 2016; Wagg et al., 2014).”
Soil biology for resilient, healthy soil (2015, background): “Experimentally, soil biodiversity has been strongly associated with key ecosystem functions such as decomposition and nutrient cycling (Wagg et al. 2014).”
Soil biodiversity and DNA barcodes: opportunities and challenges (2015, background): “These organisms interact with each other and affect the functioning of the soil ecosystem (Wagg et al., 2014).”
Unearthing the role of biological diversity in soil health (2015, background): “Some microcosm experiments support that hypothesis (Wagg et al., 2014); others do not (Wardle et al.”
Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality (2021, result): “These observations are in agreement with the hypothesis that a strong positive relationship exists between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality (Wagg et al., 2014; Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2016a; Mori et al., 2016).”
Soil microbiomes with distinct assemblies through vertical soil profiles drive the cycling of multiple nutrients in reforested ecosystems (2018, background): “However, these environmental changes can also lead to an altered microbial community [66], whose microorganisms are vital engines that drive Earth’s biogeochemical cycles [11, 67].”
Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Community Dynamics: A Methodological Review (2014, background): “Their complexity may range from dozens of “species” in extreme environments [8], to many hundreds (for example, on specific habitats on humans [9]) to tens of thousands per gram of soil [10].”