Above and belowground community strategies respond to different global change drivers.

ABSTRACT: Environmental changes alter the diversity and structure of communities. By shifting the range of species traits that will be successful under new conditions, environmental drivers can also dramatically impact ecosystem functioning and resilience. Above and belowground communities jointly regulate whole-ecosystem processes and responses to change, yet they are frequently studied separately. To determine whether these communities respond similarly to environmental changes, we measured taxonomic and trait-based responses of plant and soil microbial communities to four years of experimental warming and nitrogen deposition in a temperate grassland. Plant diversity responded strongly to N addition, whereas soil microbial communities responded primarily to warming, likely via an associated decrea

SUBMITTER: Adair KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385336 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature