Plant-soil feedbacks: role of plant functional group and plant traits

Effects of root decomposition on plant-soil feedback of early- and mid-successional plant species

(2016) Naili Zhang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mycorrhizal response trades off with plant growth rate and increases with plant successional status

(2015) Liz Koziol et al.   ECOLOGY

A widespread plant-fungal-bacterial symbiosis promotes plant biodiversity, plant nutrition and seedling recruitment

(2015) Marcel GA van der Heijden et al.   ISME Journal

From pots to plots: hierarchical trait-based prediction of plant performance in a mesic grassland

(2015) Thomas Schroeder-Georgi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Negative biotic soil-effects enhance biodiversity by restricting potentially dominant plant species in grasslands

(2015) Johannes Heinze et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

(2014) N. Legay et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant–soil feedbacks of exotic plant species across life forms: a meta-analysis

(2014) Annelein Meisner et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is there an association between root architecture and mycorrhizal growth response?

(2014) Hafiz Maherali   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Are plant-soil feedback responses explained by plant traits?

(2014) Catherine Baxendale et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Intraspecific and intergenerational differences in plant-soil feedbacks

(2014) Cameron Wagg et al.   OIKOS

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant growth depend on root system: a meta-analysis

(2014) Haishui Yang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Are there evolutionary consequences of plant-soil feedbacks along soil gradients?

(2013) Jennifer A. Schweitzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

Plant diversity effects on aboveground and belowground N pools in temperate grassland ecosystems: Development in the first 5 years after establishment

(2011) Yvonne Oelmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale-up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services

(2011) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The curse of the black box

(2011) Roeland Cortois et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

TaqMan Real-Time PCR Assays To Assess Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Responses to Field Manipulation of Grassland Biodiversity: Effects of Soil Characteristics, Plant Species Richness, and Functional Traits

(2010) S. Konig et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

A meta-analysis of context-dependency in plant response to inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi

(2010) Jason D. Hoeksema et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil fungal pathogens and the relationship between plant diversity and productivity

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

Predicting root defence against herbivores during succession

(2010) Sergio Rasmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland

(2010) Kate H. Orwin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant-soil feedback: experimental approaches, statistical analyses and ecological interpretations

(2010) E. Pernilla Brinkman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

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

Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasion

(2009) D. Blumenthal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant-soil feedbacks: a meta-analytical review

(2008) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS