Soil microbial restoration strategies for promoting climate-ready prairie ecosystems.

ABSTRACT: Tractable practices for soil microbial restoration in tallgrass prairies reclaimed from agriculture are a critical gap in traditional ecological restoration. Long-term fertilization and tilling permanently alter soil bacterial and fungal communities, requiring microbe-targeted restoration methods to improve belowground ecosystem services and carbon storage in newly restored prairies. These techniques are particularly important when restoring for climate-ready ecosystems, adapted to altered temperature regimes. To approach these issues, we conducted a multi-factorial greenhouse experiment to test the effects of plant species richness, soil amendment and elevated temperature on soil microbial diversity, growth, and function. Treatments consisted of three seedlings of one plant species (Andro

SUBMITTER: Docherty KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9286448 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature