Community-level interactions between plants and soil biota during range expansion.

ABSTRACT: Plant species that expand their range in response to current climate change will encounter soil communities that may hinder, allow or even facilitate plant performance. It has been shown repeatedly for plant species originating from other continents that these plants are less hampered by soil communities from the new than from the original range. However, information about the interactions between intra-continental range expanders and soil communities is sparse, especially at community level.Here we used a plant-soil feedback experiment approach to examine if the interactions between range expanders and soil communities change during range expansion. We grew communities of range-expanding and native plant species with soil communities originating from the original and new range of range ex

SUBMITTER: Koorem K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7508040 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature