Although soil microbial communities are known to play crucial roles in the cycling of
nutrients in forest ecosystems and can vary by plant species, how microorganisms respond …

Plant genetic variation, through its phenotypic display, can determine the composition of
below ground microbial communities. Variation within a species is increasingly …

Below‐ground microbial communities influence plant diversity, plant productivity, and plant
community composition. Given these strong ecological effects, are interactions with below …

Microbes are thought to maintain diversity in plant communities by specializing on particular
species, but it is not known whether microbes that specialize within species (ie, on …

Plant diversity positively impacts ecosystem services such as biomass production and soil
organic matter (SOM) storage. Both processes counteract increasing atmospheric CO 2 …

Soils are one of the first selective environments a seed experiences and yet little is known
about the evolutionary consequences of plant-soil feedbacks. We have previously found that …

The influence of plant diversity on belowground ecosystem processes and feedbacks of the
latter on plant growth are still largely unexplored. A previous field experiment showed …

Ecosystem productivity commonly increases asymptotically with plant species diversity, and
determining the mechanisms responsible for this well‐known pattern is essential to predict …

A current debate in ecology centers on the extent to which ecosystem function depends on
biodiversity. Here, we provide evidence from a long‐term field manipulation of plant diversity …

Aboveground–belowground interactions exert critical controls on the composition and
function of terrestrial ecosystems, yet the fundamental relationships between plant diversity …