Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

Diversification of crop** systems has been proposed as a major mechanism to move
towards sustainable crop** systems. To date, a diversification option that has received …

Species‐rich plant communities have been shown to be more productive and to exhibit
increased long‐term soil organic carbon (SOC) storage. Soil microorganisms are central to …

Dissolved organic matter affects fundamental biogeochemical processes in the soil such as
nutrient cycling and organic matter storage. The current paradigm is that processing of …

Earth is home to over 350,000 vascular plant species that differ in their traits in innumerable
ways. A key challenge is to predict how natural or anthropogenically driven changes in the …

Plant diversity strongly influences ecosystem functions and services, such as soil carbon
storage. However, the mechanisms underlying the positive plant diversity effects on soil …

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 …

Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet
how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the long-term lacks …

Despite several lines of observational evidence, there is a lack of consensus on whether
higher fungal: bacterial (F: B) ratios directly cause higher soil carbon (C) storage. We …