Fungal-bacterial diversity and microbiome complexity predict ecosystem functioning

There is ongoing interest in linking soil microbial diversity to ecosystem function. Here the authors manipulate the diversity and composition of microbial communities and show that complex microbial networks contribute more to ecosystem multifunctionality than simpler or low-diversity networks.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cameron Wagg, Klaus Schlaeppi, Samiran Banerjee, Eiko E. Kuramae, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12798-y