Plant biodiversity promotes sustainable agriculture directly and via belowground effects

SL Cappelli, LA Domeignoz-Horta, V Loaiza… - Trends in Plant …, 2022‏ - cell.com
While the positive relationship between plant biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF)
is well established, the extent to which this is mediated via belowground microbial …

Deciphering the role of specialist and generalist plant–microbial interactions as drivers of plant–soil feedback

M Semchenko, KE Barry, FT de Vries… - New …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Feedback between plants and soil microbial communities can be a powerful driver of
vegetation dynamics. Plants elicit changes in the soil microbiome that either promote or …

Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils

Y Lekberg, CA Arnillas, ET Borer, LS Bullington… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Ecosystems across the globe receive elevated inputs of nutrients, but the consequences of
this for soil fungal guilds that mediate key ecosystem functions remain unclear. We find that …

Biodiversity loss underlies the dilution effect of biodiversity

FW Halliday, JR Rohr, AL Laine - Ecology letters, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The dilution effect predicts increasing biodiversity to reduce the risk of infection, but the
generality of this effect remains unresolved. Because biodiversity loss generates predictable …

Nitrogen deposition and climate: an integrated synthesis

ET Borer, CJ Stevens - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022‏ - cell.com
Human activities have more than doubled reactive nitrogen (N) deposited in ecosystems,
perturbing the N cycle and considerably impacting plant, animal, and microbial communities …

Plant disease risk is modified by multiple global change drivers

AL Laine - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
Plant diseases are strongly influenced by host biodiversity, spatial structure, and abiotic
conditions. All of these are undergoing rapid change, as the climate is warming, habitats are …

Climate factors determine the utilization strategy of forest plant resources at large scales

J Wang, X Wang, Y Ji, J Gao - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Plant functional traits are a representation of plant resource utilization strategies. Plants with
higher specific leaf area (SLA) and lower leaf dry matter content (LDMC) exhibit faster …

Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands

A Ebeling, AT Strauss, PB Adler, CA Arnillas… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant damage by invertebrate herbivores and pathogens influences the dynamics of
grassland ecosystems, but anthropogenic changes in nitrogen and phosphorus availability …

Plant growth-defense trade-offs: molecular processes leading to physiological changes

JP Figueroa-Macías, YC García, M Núñez… - International journal of …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
In order to survive in a hostile habitat, plants have to manage the available resources to
reach a delicate balance between development and defense processes, setting up what …