No consistent effects of plant diversity on root biomass, soil biota and soil abiotic conditions in temperate grassland communities

By A. Gastine, M. Scherer‐Lorenzen, P. Leadley. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Soil and Plant Nitrogen Pools as Related to Plant Diversity in an Experimental Grassland (2007, background): “Little is known about the relationship between plant diversity and microbial activity (Wardle and Nicholson, 1996; Maire et al., 1999; Spehn et al., 2000; Gastine et al., 2003 ).”
Relationship between plant species diversity and soil microbial functional diversity along a longitudinal gradient in temperate grasslands of Hulunbeir, Inner Mongolia, China (2008, background): “response or no response to increasing plant species diversity (Gastine et al. 2003; Bardgett and Shine 1999).”
Investigating microbial community structure in soils by physiological, biochemical and molecular fingerprinting methods (2006, background): “…et al. (2001) reported that plants had a very strong influence on soil microbial communities, whereas Kennedy et al. (2004) reported no significant effect of plants, and Gastine et al. (2003) and Hedlund et al. (2003) suggested inconsistent effects of both soil characteristics and plant types.”
Effects of plant diversity on plant biomass production and soil macrofauna in Amazonian pastures (2008, background): “Indeed, through the quality and quantity of litter produced (Hooper et al., 2000) and the secretion of various types of root exudates (Lavelle et al., 1995), plants modify the abundance and diversity of organic resources and microhabitats (Scheu and Schaefer, 1998; Gastine et al., 2003b).”
Plant community impacts on the structure of earthworm communities depend on season and change with time. (2009, background): “Moreover, previous studies accentuated the role of legumes particularly for the performance of surface feeding species, such as epigeic (Gastine et al., 2003) and anecic earthworms (Spehn et al.”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: reconciling the results of experimental and observational studies (2007, background): “Further detailed information on the complex effects of legume species in BIODEPTH can be found in many previously published papers (see Hector et al. 1999; Loreau & Hector 2001; Jumpponen et al. 2002; Mulder et al. 2002; Spehn et al. 2002; Gastine, Scherer-Lorenzen & Leadley 2003; Scherer-Lorenzen”
Plant species richness drives the density and diversity of Collembola in temperate grassland (2011, background): “Previous studies primarily highlighted the significance of the presence of certain plant functional groups for soil biota (Gastine et al., 2003; Hedlund et al., 2003; De Deyn et al., 2004; Salamon et al., 2004; Ilieva-Makulec et al., 2006; Milcu et al., 2008).”