Aboveground and belowground biodiversity have complementary effects on ecosystem functions across global grasslands.

ABSTRACT: Grasslands are integral to maintaining biodiversity and key ecosystem services and are under threat from climate change. Plant and soil microbial diversity, and their interactions, support the provision of multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality). However, it remains virtually unknown whether plant and soil microbial diversity explain a unique portion of total variation or shared contributions to supporting multifunctionality across global grasslands. Here, we combine results from a global survey of 101 grasslands with a novel microcosm study, controlling for both plant and soil microbial diversity to identify their individual and interactive contribution to support multifunctionality under aridity and experimental drought. We found that plant and soil microbial diversity independ

SUBMITTER: Martins CSC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11324184 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature