Incorporating the soil environment and microbial community into plant competition theory

Complex organism-environment feedbacks buffer species diversity against habitat fragmentation

(2014) Peter C. Zee et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Effects of local negative feedbacks on the evolution of species within metacommunities

(2014) Nicolas Loeuille et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Root responses of grassland species to spatial heterogeneity of plant-soil feedback

(2014) Marloes Hendriks et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Coexistence and relative abundance in plant communities are determined by feedbacks when the scale of feedback and dispersal is local

(2014) Keenan M. L. Mack et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

(2014) Colin Averill et al.   NATURE

The soil microbial community predicts the importance of plant traits in plant-soil feedback

(2014) Po-Ju Ke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

There's no place like home? An exploration of the mechanisms behind plant litter-decomposer affinity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) Amy T. Austin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Are plant-soil feedback responses explained by plant traits?

(2014) Catherine Baxendale et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pathogen impacts on plant diversity in variable environments

(2014) Erin A. Mordecai   OIKOS

Ecological understanding of root-infecting fungi using trait-based approaches

(2014) Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Untangling the fungal niche: the trait-based approach

(2014) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Consequences of Pathogen Spillover for Cheatgrass-Invaded Grasslands: Coexistence, Competitive Exclusion, or Priority Effects

(2013) Erin A. Mordecai   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Soil disturbances can suppress the invasion of alien plants under plant–soil feedback

(2013) Yuya Fukano et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Despite spillover, a shared pathogen promotes native plant persistence in a cheatgrass-invaded grassland

(2013) Erin A. Mordecai   ECOLOGY

How specialised must natural enemies be to facilitate coexistence among plants?

(2013) Brian E. Sedio et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion

(2013) Katharine N. Suding et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Independent variations of plant and soil mixtures reveal soil feedback effects on plant community overyielding

(2013) Marloes Hendriks et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biotic plant-soil feedbacks across temporal scales

(2013) Paul Kardol et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

(2013) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Complex plant-soil interactions enhance plant species diversity by delaying community convergence

(2013) Tadashi Fukami et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

(2013) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Climate Change

Microbial Population and Community Dynamics on Plant Roots and Their Feedbacks on Plant Communities

(2012) James D. Bever et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Microbe-mediated plant–soil feedback and its roles in a changing world

(2012) Takeshi Miki   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The organization of plant communities: negative plant–soil feedbacks and semiarid grasslands

(2012) Kurt O. Reinhart   ECOLOGY

Erratum: Corrigendum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities change among three stages of primary sand dune succession but do not alter plant growth

(2012) Benjamin A. Sikes et al.   OIKOS

Plant-soil feedbacks provide an additional explanation for diversity-productivity relationships

(2012) A. Kulmatiski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity

(2012) D. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Plant–soil feedbacks and the coexistence of competing plants

(2012) Tomás A. Revilla et al.   Theoretical Ecology

The influence of soil community density on plant-soil feedbacks: An important unknown in plant invasion

(2011) Anna G. Aguilera   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Pathogen impacts on plant communities: unifying theory, concepts, and empirical work

(2011) Erin A. Mordecai   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states?

(2011) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Organic nutrient uptake by mycorrhizal fungi enhances ecosystem carbon storage: a model-based assessment

(2011) Kate H. Orwin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing predictions of a three-species plant-soil feedback model

(2011) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Litter feedbacks, evolutionary change and exotic plant invasion

(2011) Maarten B. Eppinga et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

All size classes of soil fauna and litter quality control the acceleration of litter decay in its home environment

(2011) Alexandru Milcu et al.   OIKOS

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Modelling the effects of litter decomposition on tree diversity patterns

(2010) Stefano Mazzoleni et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Testing the Janzen-Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree

(2010) Robert Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil fungal pathogens and the relationship between plant diversity and productivity

(2010) John L. Maron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Distance-responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest

(2010) Varun Swamy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

(2010) Steven D. Allison et al.   Nature Geoscience

Species diversity reduces invasion success in pathogen-regulated communities

(2010) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   OIKOS

Functional diversity of microbial decomposers facilitates plant coexistence in a plant-microbe-soil feedback model

(2010) T. Miki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

(2010) James D. Bever et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Impacts of soil microbial communities on exotic plant invasions

(2010) Inderjit et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Emergence and Maintenance of Nutrient Limitation over Multiple Timescales in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2009) Duncan N. L. Menge et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Litter drives ecosystem and plant community changes in cattail invasion

(2009) Emily C. Farrer et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Cheatgrass facilitates spillover of a seed bank pathogen onto native grass species

(2009) Julie Beckstead et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phenolic Control of Plant Nitrogen Acquisition through the Inhibition of Soil Microbial Decomposition Processes: A Plant-Microbe Competition Model

(2009) Masayuki Ushio et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

(2009) Edward Ayres et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Identifying the characteristics of organic soil amendments that suppress soilborne plant diseases

(2009) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A new graphical model for untangling complex relationships among environment, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning

(2008) Takeshi Miki   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nitrogen enrichment modifies plant community structure via changes to plant–soil feedback

(2008) P. Manning et al.   OECOLOGIA

Distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality caused by several diseases in eight tree species co-occurring in a temperate forest

(2008) Miki Yamazaki et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY