Agricultural intensification can involve the simplification of agroecosystems to crop
monocultures while the practices of crop rotation, intercrop** and companion planting …

Crop rotation is an environmentally friendly and highly sustainable cultivation method. Fully
understanding the effects of crop rotation on soil microorganisms will facilitate the …

Factors driving microbial community composition and diversity are well established but the
relationship with microbial functioning is poorly understood, especially at large scales. We …

Despite the importance of microbial communities for ecosystem services and human
welfare, the relationship between microbial diversity and multiple ecosystem functions and …

Land-use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss. However, understanding how
different components of land use drive biodiversity loss requires the investigation of multiple …

In natural ecosystems, positive effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functioning have been
widely observed, yet whether this is true in crop** systems remains unclear. Here we …

Plant diversity has been shown to determine the composition and functioning of soil biota.
Although root-derived organic inputs are discussed as the main drivers of soil communities …

Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their sha**
mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil bacterial and fungal diversity …

Aboveground–belowground interactions exert critical controls on the composition and
function of terrestrial ecosystems, yet the fundamental relationships between plant diversity …

Our increasing dependence on a small number of agricultural crops, such as corn, is leading
to reductions in agricultural biodiversity. Reductions in the number of crops in rotation or the …