Soil Communities Promote Temporal Stability and Species Asynchrony in Experimental Grassland Communities.

BACKGROUND:Over the past two decades many studies have demonstrated that plant species diversity promotes primary productivity and stability in grassland ecosystems. Additionally, soil community characteristics have also been shown to influence the productivity and composition of plant communities,...

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Main Authors: Sarah Pellkofer, Marcel G A van der Heijden, Bernhard Schmid, Cameron Wagg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4734741?pdf=render