Changes in species density along the soil pH gradient — evidence from German plant communities

By B. Schuster, M. Diekmann. Folia Geobotanica, 2003

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Species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in dry grasslands: The effects of environment, landscape structure and competition (2006, background): “While the temperature regime is rather oceanic, the annual precipitation is comparatively low, with especially low values in summer (SJÖRS 1999).”
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in terrestrial ecosystems: Its impact on plant communities and consequences across trophic levels (2018, background): “Reductions in soil pH and consequent changes in soil 19 chemistry can impact on the pool of species suited to growing in the soil with a smaller pool of 20 species found in soils with a low pH (Schuster & Diekmann 2003).”
Scale- and taxon-dependent biodiversity patterns of dry grassland vegetation in Transylvania (2014, background): “The low negative effect of soil pH on plant diversity (Table 2) is unexpected, as numerous studies found strong effects of pH in European grasslands (e.g. Chytrý et al., 2003; Reitalu et al., 2014; Schuster and Diekmann, 2003).”
Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis (2014, background): “richness–pH relationship is usually unimodal when a sufficiently broad pH range is studied, with a peak at about pH 6–7 (Chytrý et al., 2007; Merunková and Chytrý, 2012; Schuster and Diekmann, 2003).”