Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F18%3A43898196" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/18:43898196 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.14440" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.14440</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14440" target="_blank" >10.1111/gcb.14440</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality

Original language description

Despite their importance, how plant communities and soil microorganisms interact to determine the capacity of ecosystems to provide multiple functions simultaneously (multifunctionality) under climate change is poorly known. We conducted a common garden experiment using grassland species to evaluate how plant functional structure and soil microbial (bacteria and protists) diversity and abundance regulate soil multifunctionality responses to joint changes in plant species richness (one, three and six species) and simulated climate change (3 degrees C warming and 35% rainfall reduction). The effects of species richness and climate on soil multifunctionality were indirectly driven via changes in plant functional structure and their relationships with the abundance and diversity of soil bacteria and protists. More specifically, warming selected for the larger and most productive plant species, increasing the average size within communities and leading to reductions in functional plant diversity. These changes increased the total abundance of bacteria that, in turn, increased that of protists, ultimately promoting soil multifunctionality. Our work suggests that cascading effects between plant functional traits and the abundance of multitrophic soil organisms largely regulate the response of soil multifunctionality to simulated climate change, and ultimately provides novel experimental insights into the mechanisms underlying the effects of biodiversity and climate change on ecosystem functioning.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-15012S" target="_blank" >GA16-15012S: Drivers of communities' temporal stability: the role of functional differences between and within species</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Change Biology

ISSN

1354-1013

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

5642-5654

UT code for WoS article

000449650600006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85054626953