Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity increases ecosystem functions underpinning a suite of services valued by society, including services provided by soils. To test whether, and how, future environments alter the relationship between biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions, we measured grassland plant diversity effects on single soil functions and ecosystem multifunctionality, and compared relationships in four environments: ambient conditions, elevated atmospheric CO₂, enriched N supply, and elevated CO₂ and N in combination. Our results showed that plant diversity increased three out of four soil functions and, consequently, ecosystem multifunctionality. Remarkably, biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships were similarly significant under current and future environmental conditi

SUBMITTER: Eisenhauer N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6296783 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature