The functional structure of plant communities drives soil functioning via changes in soil abiotic properties
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F22%3A00565180" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/22:00565180 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/22:00565180 RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904840
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3833" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3833</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3833" target="_blank" >10.1002/ecy.3833</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The functional structure of plant communities drives soil functioning via changes in soil abiotic properties
Original language description
While biodiversity is expected to enhance multiple ecosystem functions (EFs), the different roles of multiple biodiversity dimensions remain difficult to disentangle without carefully designed experiments. We sowed plant communities with independent levels of functional (FD) and phylogenetic diversities (PD), combined with different levels of fertilization, to investigate their direct and indirect roles on multiple EFs, including plant-related EFs (plant biomass productivity, litter decomposability), soil fertility (organic carbon and nutrient pool variables), soil microbial activity (respiration and nutrient cycling), and an overall multifunctionality. We expected an increase in most EFs in communities with higher values of FD and/or PD via complementarity effects, but also the dominant plant types (using community weighted mean, CWM, independent of FD and PD) via selection effects on several EFs. The results showed strong direct effects of different dimensions of plant functional structure parameters on plant-related EFs, through either CWM or FD, with weak effects of PD. Fertilization had significant effects on one soil microbial activity and indirect effects on the other variables via changes in soil abiotic properties. Dominant plant types and FD showed only indirect effects on soil microbial activity, through litter decomposition and soil abiotic properties, highlighting the importance of cascading effects. This study shows the relevance of complementary dimensions of biodiversity for assessing both direct and cascading effects on multiple EFs.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-13637S" target="_blank" >GA20-13637S: Diversification across scales: exploring the role of plant inter- and intra-specific differentiation for coexistence and ecosystem functioning</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology
ISSN
0012-9658
e-ISSN
1939-9170
Volume of the periodical
103
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
e3833
UT code for WoS article
000856502100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85138556654