Changes in soil microbial substrate utilization in response to altered litter diversity and precipitation in a Mediterranean shrubland

Measuring respiration profiles of soil microbial communities across Europe using MicroResp™ method

(2016) R.E. Creamer et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Diversity of leaf litter leachates from temperate forest trees and its consequences for soil microbial activity

(2016) François-Xavier Joly et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

(2016) Fons van der Plas et al.   Nature Communications

Litter chemical structure is more important than species richness in affecting soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics including gas emissions from an alpine soil

(2015) Youchao Chen et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Plant diversity effects on soil microbial functions and enzymes are stronger than warming in a grassland experiment

(2015) Katja Steinauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Disentangling the Litter Quality and Soil Microbial Contribution to Leaf and Fine Root Litter Decomposition Responses to Reduced Rainfall

(2015) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

(2015) Madhav Prakash Thakur et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

(2015) Markus Lange et al.   Nature Communications

lavaan: AnRPackage for Structural Equation Modeling

(2015) Yves Rosseel   Journal of Statistical Software

Microbial community development and unseen diversity recovery in inoculated sterile soil

(2014) Tom O. Delmont et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

C, N and P fertilization in an Amazonian rainforest supports stoichiometric dissimilarity as a driver of litter diversity effects on decomposition

(2014) S. Barantal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota

(2013) Alexandru Milcu et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant diversity does not buffer drought effects on early-stage litter mass loss rates and microbial properties

(2013) Anja Vogel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Combination of Different Carbon Sources Enhances Bacterial Growth Efficiency in Aquatic Ecosystems

(2013) Ellen S. Fonte et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO2 and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment

(2013) N. Eisenhauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forest soil microbial functional patterns and response to a drought and warming event: Key role of climate–plant–soil interactions at a regional scale

(2013) Alexia Pailler et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Strong functional stability of soil microbial communities under semiarid Mediterranean conditions and subjected to long-term shifts in baseline precipitation

(2013) J. Curiel Yuste et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Severe drought-induced community tolerance to heat wave. An experimental study on soil microbial processes

(2012) Annette Bérard et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

The Effects of Soil Bacterial Community Structure on Decomposition in a Tropical Rain Forest

(2011) Jonathan W. Leff et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Long-term presence of tree species but not chemical diversity affect litter mixture effects on decomposition in a neotropical rainforest

(2011) Sandra Barantal et al.   OECOLOGIA

Stability of above-ground and below-ground processes to extreme drought in model grassland ecosystems: Interactions with plant species diversity and soil nitrogen availability

(2011) Juliette M.G. Bloor et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Soil fauna alter the effects of litter composition on nitrogen cycling in a mineral soil

(2011) Yolima Carrillo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Does variability in litter quality determine soil microbial respiration in an Amazonian rainforest?

(2011) Nicolas Fanin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis

(2010) N. Eisenhauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in leaf litter tannins drives decomposition in a tropical rain forest of French Guiana

(2010) Sylvain Coq et al.   ECOLOGY

Chemical composition and diversity influence non-additive effects of litter mixtures on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: Implications for plant species loss

(2010) Courtney L. Meier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Biodiversity at the plant–soil interface: microbial abundance and community structure respond to litter mixing

(2009) Samantha K. Chapman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands

(2009) Jens Schumacher et al.   OIKOS

Impact of drought and increasing temperatures on soil CO2 emissions in a Mediterranean shrubland (gariga)

(2009) Giovanbattista Domenico de Dato et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

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

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

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

Consequences of non-random species loss for decomposition dynamics: experimental evidence for additive and non-additive effects

(2008) Becky A. Ball et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

On the relative importance of the effects of selection and complementarity as drivers of diversity-productivity relationships in Mediterranean shrublands

(2008) Nicolas Montès et al.   OIKOS

Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands

(2008) Sönke Lorentzen et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Links between plant litter chemistry, species diversity, and below-ground ecosystem function

(2008) C. L. Meier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long term repeated burning in a wet sclerophyll forest reduces fungal and bacterial biomass and responses to carbon substrates

(2008) Colin D. Campbell et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Drying and rewetting effects on C and N mineralization and microbial activity in surface and subsurface California grassland soils

(2008) Shu-Rong Xiang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Relationship between vegetation diversity and soil functional diversity in native mixed-oak forests

(2007) Gloria Rodríguez-Loinaz et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY