PLANT DIVERSITY, SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: ARE THERE ANY LINKS?

By D. Zak, W. Holmes, D. White, A. Peacock, David Tilman. 2003

1,251 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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In Ecology

1. David Tilman
2. Barbara C. Schmid
3. R. Bardgett
4. David A. Wardle
5. S. Scheu
6. J. Schimel
7. M. Wallenstein
8. David U Hooper

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. David Tilman
2. David A. Wardle
3. Barbara C. Schmid
4. S. Lavorel
5. Michel Loreau
6. Andy Hector
7. Peter B. Reich
8. R. Bardgett

In Soil Science

1. R. Bardgett
2. R. Sinsabaugh
3. N. Eisenhauer
4. S. Scheu
5. M. Wallenstein
6. S. Hobbie
7. G. D. De Deyn
8. S. Lavorel

Citations in the corpus

• The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. (2008, background): “…that regulate microbial diversity at different temporal and spatial scales (Green & Bohannan 2006) and its interdependency with plant diversity (Zak et al. 2003); this is an area that needs much more attention, especially if microbial ecologists want to predict how microbial communities…”
• Effects of plant species richness and evenness on soil microbial community diversity and function (2010, background): “…richness can lead to increased microbial community richness and functional diversity (Bartelt-Ryser et al. 2005; Loranger-Merciris et al. 2006; Zak et al. 2003), though many studies have found limited species richness effects (Berg and Smalla 2009; Bezemer et al. 2006; Grüter et al. 2006;…”
• Crop rotational diversity increases disease suppressive capacity of soil microbiomes (2018, background): “…evidence that this form of temporal biodiversity may provide some of the same beneficial ecosystem functions as traditional spatial biodiversity (Zak et al. 2003), such as carbon sequestration, pest control, and nutrient cycling (Ball et al. 2005, McDaniel et al. 2014b, Tiemann et al. 2015,…”
• Effects of past and current drought on the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities (2019, background): “Previous studies have reported strong links between above and belowground communities, and high plant diversity tends to increase soil microbial biomass and activity due to inputs of organic matter and the regulation of soil moisture (Zak et al., 2003; Lange et al., 2015; Thakur et al., 2015).”
• EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE (2005, background): “Soil processes in particular appear to be primarily influenced by the functional characteristics of dominant species rather than by the number of species present (but see Zak et al. 2003).”
• Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity (2011, background): “Plant diversity has been shown to be positively related to microbial biomass (Spehn et al. 2000; Stephan, Meyer & Schmid 2000; Zak et al. 2003), N mineralization (Zak et al. 2003; West, Hobbie & Reich 2006) and N retention (Tilman,Wedin&Knops 1996).”