Where, when and how plant–soil feedback matters in a changing world

WH van der Putten, MA Bradford… - Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
It is increasingly acknowledged that plant–soil feedbacks may play an important role in
driving the composition of plant communities and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems …

Chesson's coexistence theory

G Barabás, R D'Andrea, SM Stump - Ecological monographs, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We give a comprehensive review of Chesson's coexistence theory, summarizing, for the first
time, all its fundamental details in one single document. Our goal is for both theoretical and …

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

SJ Davies, I Abiem, KA Salim, S Aguilar, D Allen… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

BS Steidinger, TW Crowther, J Liang, ME Van Nuland… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The identity of the dominant root-associated microbial symbionts in a forest determines the
ability of trees to access limiting nutrients from atmospheric or soil pools,, sequester carbon …

Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition

PB Adler, D Smull, KH Beard, RT Choi… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Theory predicts that intraspecific competition should be stronger than interspecific
competition for any pair of stably coexisting species, yet previous literature reviews found …

Plant-soil feedbacks and mycorrhizal type influence temperate forest population dynamics

JA Bennett, H Maherali, KO Reinhart, Y Lekberg… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Feedback with soil biota is an important determinant of terrestrial plant diversity. However,
the factors regulating plant-soil feedback, which varies from positive to negative among plant …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

WW Weisser, C Roscher, ST Meyer, A Ebeling… - Basic and applied …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest

L Chen, NG Swenson, N Ji, X Mi, H Ren, L Guo, K Ma - Science, 2019 - science.org
The mechanisms underlying interspecific variation in conspecific negative density
dependence (CNDD) are poorly understood. Using a multilevel modeling approach, we …

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

KM Crawford, JT Bauer, LS Comita, MB Eppinga… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐soil feedback (PSF) theory provides a powerful framework for understanding plant
dynamics by integrating growth assays into predictions of whether soil communities stabilise …

Geographic variation in genetic and demographic performance: new insights from an old biogeographical paradigm

S Pironon, G Papuga, J Villellas, AL Angert… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 'centre–periphery hypothesis'(CPH) is a long‐standing postulate in ecology
that states that genetic variation and demographic performance of a species decrease from …