Authors
Cameron Wagg, Jan‐Hendrik Dudenhöffer, Franco Widmer, Marcel GA Van Der Heijden
Publication date
2018/5
Journal
Functional ecology
Volume
32
Issue
5
Pages
1280-1292
Description
- It is becoming well‐established that plant diversity is instrumental in stabilizing the temporal functioning of ecosystems through population dynamics and the so‐called insurance or portfolio effect. However, it remains unclear whether diversity–stability relationships and the role of population dynamics in soil microbial communities parallel those in plant communities.
- Our study took place in a long‐term land management experiment with and without perturbation to the soil ecosystem by tilling. We assessed the impacts of the soil perturbation on the diversity, synchrony and stability relationships in soil fungal and bacterial communities.
- We found that the perturbation to the soil ecosystem not only reduced the abundance and richness of the fungal community, but it also reduced the temporal stability in both bacterial and fungal abundance. The fungal community abundance was destabilized by soil tilling due to …
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C Wagg, JH Dudenhöffer, F Widmer… - Functional ecology, 2018