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Despite their low relative abundance, subordinate plant species may have larger impacts on ecosystem functioning than expected, but their role in plant communities remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to test how subordinate plant species i ...

A rainfall manipulation experiment was conducted over a two-year period on two semi-natural grassland sites, in order to determine the effects of drought on both forage production (dry matter and nutritive value) and plant-soil relationships. Water stress ...

Questions: Californian grasslands have a long history of invasion, starting with the introduction of exotic forage species a century ago, and followed by newer waves of invaders. Both exotic and invasive species produce large amounts of litter, but the imp ...

Plant effects on soil biota can result in feedbacks affecting plant performance, with consequences for plant community and ecosystem dynamics on short and long time-scales. In addition, the strength and direction of plant-soil feedbacks depend on tempor ...

The relevance of biodiversity to human health is an increasing international political issue as it causes concern for ethical and aesthetic reasons, but also has a strong impact on ecosystem properties and ecological goods and services utilised by humanity ...

The subordinate insurance hypothesis suggests that highly diverse communities contain greater numbers of subordinate species than less diverse communities. It has previously been reported that subordinate species can improve grassland productivity durin ...

Drought can occur at different times during the grassland growing season, likely having contrasting effects on forage production when happening early or later in the season. However, knowledge about the interacting effects of the timing of drought and the ...

Drought induces changes in the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycle but most plant species have limited flexibility to take up nutrients under such variable or unbalanced N and P availability. Both the degree of flexibility in plant N:P ratio and of ro ...

Grasslands cover similar to 30% of the Earth's terrestrial surface and provide many ecosystem services. Many grasslands are heavily managed to maximize these services for human benefit, but the outcome of management is anticipated to be increasingly inf ...

Groundwater level is crucial for wetland plant growth and reproduction, but the extent of its effect on plant growth can vary along with changed precipitation and temperature at different seasons. In this context, we investigated the effect of two groundwa ...

Loss of plant diversity resulting from forecasted drought events is likely to alter soil functioning and affect earthworm communities. Plant-soil interactions are expected to play an important role in mediating climate change effects on soil decomposers. I ...

Climate warming is releasing carbon from soils around the world, constituting a positive climate feedback. Warming is also causing species to expand their ranges into new ecosystems. Yet, in most ecosystems, whether range expanding species will amplify or ...

Drought events can strongly affect ecosystem functioning by modifying relationship between plants, microbes and soil chemistry, with consequent impacts on nutrient cycling. However, the potential impacts of a soil moisture reduction on the nitrogen (N) and ...

Alteration of flooding regimes due to global change may have cascading effects on plant community composition and associated ecosystem services. Here, we experimentally investigated the effects of six flooding regimes with contrasting combinations of flood ...

Plants and microbes release a plethora of volatiles that act as signals in plant-microbe interactions. Characterizing soil's volatilome and microbiome might shed light on the nature of relevant volatile signals and on their emitters. This hypothesis was te ...

QuestionA better understanding of the response of Sphagnum mosses and associated vascular plants to climate warming is relevant for predicting the carbon balance of peatlands in a warmer world. Open-top chambers (OTCs) have been used to investigate the eff ...

Snow-farming is one of the adaptive strategies used to face the snow deficit in ski resorts. We studied the impact of a shifting snow-farming technique on a pasture slope in Adelboden, Switzerland. Specifically, we compared plots covered by a compressed sn ...

According to the insurance hypothesis, more diverse plant communities are more likely to be resistant to drought. Whilst many experiments have been carried out to determine the effects of plant diversity on plant community insurance, the results are still ...

Changes in agricultural practices of semi-natural mountain grasslands are expected to modify plant community structure and shift dominance patterns. Using vegetation surveys of 11 sites in semi-natural grasslands of the Swiss Jura and Swiss and French Alps ...

Aims Previous cover crop studies mainly focused on the links between plant uptake and soil fertility, and there is a clear knowledge gap regarding the role of microbes in these processes. Our aim was then to better understand the effects of plant mixtures ...

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Subordinate plant species impact on soil microbial communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: Findings from a removal experiment

Impact of drought on the functioning of grassland systems

Positive litter feedbacks of an introduced species reduce native diversity and promote invasion in Californian grasslands

Biotic plant-soil feedbacks across temporal scales

Effects of Subordinate Plant Species in Plant and Soil Community Structure and Ecosystem Functioning

Subordinate plants mitigate drought effects on soil ecosystem processes by stimulating fungi

Responses of plant leaf economic and hydraulic traits mediate the effects of early- and late-season drought on grassland productivity

Stoichiometric N:P flexibility and mycorrhizal symbiosis favour plant resistance against drought

Land management trumps the effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on grassland functioning

Seasonal variability of groundwater level effects on the growth of Carex cinerascens in lake wetlands

Subordinate plant species moderate drought effects on earthworm communities in grasslands

Lowland plant arrival in alpine ecosystems facilitates a decrease in soil carbon content under experimental climate warming

Nutrient limitations induced by drought affect forage N and P differently in two permanent grasslands

Legacy Effects of Flooding Duration on Growth and Reproductive Traits of Carex cinerascens in the Poyang Lake Wetland

Linking soil's volatilome to microbes and plant roots highlights the importance of microbes as emitters of belowground volatile signals

Experimental warming interacts with soil moisture to discriminate plant responses in an ombrotrophic peatland

Impacts of snow-farming on alpine soil and vegetation: A case study from the Swiss Alps

Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands

How do subordinate and dominant species in semi-natural mountain grasslands relate to productivity and land-use change?

Species identity, rather than species mixtures, drives cover crop effects on nutrient partitioning in unfertilized agricultural soil