Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity

By H. de Kroon, Marloes Hendriks, J. van Ruijven, Janneke M. Ravenek, Francisco M. Padilla, Eelke Jongejans, E. Visser, L. Mommer. 2012

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

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Responses of common and rare aliens and natives to nutrient availability and fluctuations (2017, background): “…roots is the uptake of nutrients from the soil to enhance plant growth, plastic changes in root allocation and morphology in response to nutrient availability could optimize nutrient acquisition, and thereby plant performance (Hutchings & de Kroon 1994; Grossman & Rice 2012; de Kroon et al. 2012).”
Independent variations of plant and soil mixtures reveal soil feedback effects on plant community overyielding (2013, background): “As shown here and observed earlier (Mommer et al. 2010), it is inconceivable that differences in nutrient availability can inverse competitive hierarchies (de Kroon et al. 2012).”
Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities (2020, background): “In addition, several long-term studies showed that with time, an increasing fraction of diverse communities outperforms even the most productive monoculture, a phenomenon known as transgressive overyielding (de Kroon et al., 2012; Marquard et al., 2009; Reich et al., 2012; Tilman et al., 2014).”
Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling (2013, background): “They also support the idea that monocultures are ‘under-rooted’ (de Kroon et al. 2012) and that increased soil volume filling is an important mechanism supporting increased root productivity in mixtures (Rajaniemi 2007).”
Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest (2017, background): “…higher number of tree species leads to a lower concentration of species-specific soil pathogens, which allows species to maintain productivity compared to low diversity stands that suffer from pathogen attack, as has been found in temperate grasslands (Schnitzer et al. 2011; de Kroon et al. 2012).”
Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long‐term grassland experiment (2013, background): “Key words: aboveground biomass; C4 grass; complementarity; interspecific interactions; legume; root biomass; species richness.”
Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges (2013, background): “Recent work suggests that effects of plant species diversity on productivity may be due to combined community level responses to soil-borne pathogens and nutrition aspects (de Kroon et al. 2012). In 2011, two studies by Maron et al. (2011) and Schnitzer et al.”