Plant-soil feedback (PSF) effects are studied as plant growth responses to soil previously conditioned by another plant. These studies usually exclude effects of soil fauna, such as nematodes, soil arthropods, and earthworms, although these organisms are known to in...
Plant-soil feedback (PSF) effects are studied as plant growth responses to soil previously conditioned by another plant. These studies usually exclude effects of soil fauna, such as nematodes, soil arthropods, and earthworms, although these organisms are known to influence plant performance. Here, ...
Plant–soil feedback (PSF) is widely recognised as a driver of plant community composition, but understanding of its response to drought remains in its infancy. Here, we provide a conceptual framework for the role of drought in PSF, considering plant traits, drought severity, and historical prec...
In chapter 3 I test how plant traits relate to PSF using a 49 grassland plant species of the Jena Experiment. First, I grew individuals of all species for two months in sterilized soil inoculated with field soil. In the subsequent feedback phase, I grew all plant species for 6 weeks in...
There is increasing interest in how plant-soil feedback systems may contribute to plant invasions, and in particular, the enemy-release hypothesis. In this experiment, I conducted a greenhouse experiment to assess the existence and nature of plant-soil feedbacks of Centaurea solstitialis. I plante...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of agricultural practices on constitutive and herbivore-induced VOC emissions by a major staple crop through soil legacy effects. Methods In a full factorial experiment, we measured VOC emissions by wheat (Triticum aestivum) grown in soil ...
Using a four-consecutive-year field experiment and the quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and Illumina MiSeq DNA sequencing methods, the single and interactive impacts of crop cultivation (CK), N fertilization (N) and fulvic acid (F) on soil fungal diversity, abundance, composition and...
Fig. 1: Set-up of the experiment. In short, monocultures of six plant species were maintained for 12 months in 30 (6 species × 5 replicates) mesososms. Then, the top soil was divided into six smaller containers and placed back into the original containers (in mid-May) See Supplem...
Because of their direct link to rhizosphere microbial communities, we expect root traits to predict drought-induced PSF shifts.In the conditioning phase of a greenhouse experiment, we subjected 12 common grassland species to drought. In the feedback phase, all species were grown under ambient ...
Results/Conclusions First, using data from a field-based plant removal experiment combined with warming chambers, we show how changes in plant community composition can modify the influence of warming on peatland carbon dioxide fluxes. Specifically, we show that although plant community structure and ...