scholarly journals When and where plant‐soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta‐analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerri M. Crawford ◽  
Jonathan T. Bauer ◽  
Liza S. Comita ◽  
Maarten B. Eppinga ◽  
Daniel J. Johnson ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall K. Beals ◽  
Jessica A. M. Moore ◽  
Stephanie N. Kivlin ◽  
Shannon L. J. Bayliss ◽  
Candice Y. Lumibao ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyi Yan ◽  
Jonathan M. Levine ◽  
Gaurav S. Kandlikar

Soil microorganisms play a major role in shaping plant diversity, not only through their direct effects as pathogens, mutualists, and decomposers, but also by altering interactions between plants. In particular, previous research has shown that the soil community often generates frequency-dependent feedback loops among plants that can either destabilize species interactions, or generate stabilizing niche differences that promote species coexistence. However, recent insights from modern coexistence theory have shown that microbial effects on plant coexistence depend not only on these stabilizing or destabilizing effects, but also on the degree to which they generate competitive fitness differences. While many previous experiments have generated the data necessary for evaluating microbially mediated fitness differences, these effects have rarely been quantified in the literature. Here we present a meta-analysis of data from 50 studies, which we used to quantify the microbially mediated (de)stabilization and fitness differences derived from a classic plant-soil feedback model. Across 518 pairwise comparisons, we found that soil microbes generated both stabilization (or destabilization) and fitness differences, but also that the microbially mediated fitness differences dominated. As a consequence, if plants are otherwise equivalent competitors, the balance of soil microbe-generated (de)stabilization and fitness differences drives species exclusion much more frequently than coexistence or priority effects. Our work shows that microbially mediated fitness differences are an important but overlooked effect of soil microbes on plant coexistence. This finding paves the way for a more complete understanding of the processes that maintain plant biodiversity.



2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifen Luo ◽  
Cunwu Guo ◽  
Luotao Wang ◽  
Junxing Zhang ◽  
Linmei Deng ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-250
Author(s):  
X.J. He ◽  
W.W. Zhu ◽  
F.Z. Wu

We studied the effects of 7-crop rotations and continuous - monocropping systems on soil microorganism and its feedback. The results showed that absolute abundance of soil bacteria (Pseudomonas and Bacillus) in tomato - celery - cucumber - cabbage and cucumber - tomato - cucumber - cabbage rotation were significantly higher than control (CK). Absolute abundance of soil fungi in tomato - celery - cucumber - cabbage, kidney bean - celery - cucumber - cabbage, cucumber - kidney bean - cucumber - cabbage and cucumber - tomato - cucumber - cabbage rotation were significantly higher than CK. Dry weight of cucumber seedlings was significantly positively correlated with bacterial (Pseudomonas and Bacillus) abundance, and negatively correlated with fungal count. The results of inoculation with Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cucumerinum showed that plant dry weight of cucumber seedlings in tomato - celery - cucumber - cabbage, cucumber - kidney bean - cucumber - cabbage, cucumber - tomato - cucumber - cabbage rotation soil was significantly higher than other treatments, and their disease index was significantly lower than other treatments. There was no significant difference in dry weight of cucumber seedlings in rotation and CK in the soil sterilization test. The results of plant - soil feedback experiment showed that soil microbial changes caused by different rotation patterns had a positive feedback effect on growth of cucumber seedlings.



Ecology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (8) ◽  
pp. 2154-2164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda B. Casper ◽  
Stephen P. Bentivenga ◽  
Baoming Ji ◽  
Jennifer H. Doherty ◽  
Harry M. Edenborn ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Mariotte ◽  
Zia Mehrabi ◽  
T. Martijn Bezemer ◽  
Gerlinde B. De Deyn ◽  
Andrew Kulmatiski ◽  
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