Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a valuable resource for mediating global climate change and
securing food production. Despite an alarming rate of global plant diversity loss …

Biodiversity and carbon (C) cycling have been the focus of much research in recent
decades, partly because both change as a result of anthropogenic activities that are likely to …

Soil microorganisms are key to biological diversity and many ecosystem processes in
terrestrial ecosystems. Despite the current alarming loss of plant diversity, it is unclear how …

In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

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 …

Plant diversity loss impairs ecosystem functioning, including important effects on soil. Most
studies that have explored plant diversity effects belowground, however, have largely …

Agricultural biodiversity has hitherto been valued almost exclusively as a source of traits that
can be used in scientific breeding programs to improve the productivity of crop varieties and …

Plant litter decomposition is a key process in terrestrial carbon cycling, yet the relative
importance of various control factors remains ambiguous at a global scale. A full reciprocal …

The global decline in biodiversity has generated concern over the consequences for
ecosystem functioning and services. Although ecosystem functions driven by soil …

Rhizosphere bacteria antagonistic to fungal pathogens improve plant performance by
preventing infection. In temperate grasslands, primary productivity often increases with plant …