Resource-dependent biodiversity and potential multi-trophic interactions determine belowground functional trait stability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For achieving long-term sustainability of intensive agricultural practices, it is pivotal to understand belowground functional stability as belowground organisms play essential roles in soil biogeochemical cycling. It is commonly believed that resource availability is critical for controlling the soil biodiversity and belowground organism interactions that ultimately lead to the stabilization or collapse of terrestrial ecosystem functions, but evidence to support this belief is still limited. Here, we leveraged field experiments from the Chinese National Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) and two microcosm experiments mimicking high and low resource conditions to explore how resource availability mediates soil biodiversity and potential multi-trophic interactions to contr

SUBMITTER: Zhu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10150482 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature