Meta-analysis of the impact of plant invasions on soil microbial communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the ecological impacts of exotic plant invasions may be alteration of the soil microbial community, which may cause changes to the diversity, richness and function of these communities. In order to explore to what extent invasive plants affect the soil microbial community, we performed a meta-analysis based on 46 scientific articles to document the effect of invasive plants on species richness and diversity of bacteria and fungi. We conducted our study across a range of invaded ecosystems including native communities, and evaluated biomass, richness and diversity. We use a random effects model to determine the increase or decrease in the values of the response variables in the presence of invasive plants.

Results

The results indicated that the response vari

SUBMITTER: Torres N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8425116 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature