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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
卷 4, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02329-1
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- US National Science Foundation [DEB-1354129]
- Utah State University Ecology Center
- Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah State University
- US National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) [DEB-0620652, DEB-1234162]
This study shows that plant-soil feedbacks play a significant role in explaining the relationship between biodiversity and productivity, maintaining productivity by suppressing plant disease. This has implications for understanding and designing plant communities for agriculture, biofuel production, and conservation.
Species-rich plant communities can produce twice as much aboveground biomass as monocultures, but the mechanisms remain unresolved. We tested whether plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) can help explain these biodiversity-productivity relationships. Using a 16-species, factorial field experiment we found that plants created soils that changed subsequent plant growth by 27% and that this effect increased over time. When incorporated into simulation models, these PSFs improved predictions of plant community growth and explained 14% of overyielding. Here we show quantitative, field-based evidence that diversity maintains productivity by suppressing plant disease. Though this effect alone was modest, it helps constrain the role of factors, such as niche partitioning, that have been difficult to quantify. This improved understanding of biodiversity-productivity relationships has implications for agriculture, biofuel production and conservation. Forero et al. provide field-based evidence that plant-soil feedbacks improve understanding of the magnitude and mechanism of the diversity-productivity relationship. These results may have implications for understanding and designing plant communities for agriculture, biofuel production and conservation.
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