Functional Ecology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 13, 2025
Abstract
It
is
increasingly
recognized
that
resource
competition
and
plant–soil
feedback
(PSF)
effects
can
jointly
determine
outcomes
of
plant
interactions.
However,
it
less
clear
whether
PSF
modulates
intraspecific
or
interspecific
intrinsic
growth
rate.
Thus,
remains
to
be
answered
alters
coexistence
predictions
by
changing
the
competitive
ability
interacting
species
(fitness
differences)
rather
altering
self‐limitation
(niche
differences).
Here,
I
examined
host‐specific
soil
inoculum,
including
target
competitor
non‐specific
inoculum
on
pairwise
interactions
four
pairs
grassland
perennials.
To
explore
were
persistent
dependent
availability,
studied
over
a
two‐year
period
under
control
fertilized
conditions.
These
data
then
used
estimate
fitness
differences
niche
differences,
predict
coexistence.
found
promote
competing
plants
in
two
ways.
First,
increased
due
intense
competitor.
Second,
competitively
inferior
was
more
likely
conspecific
its
negative
effect
persisted
throughout
experimental
but
absent
after
nutrient
addition.
In
conclusion,
increasing
reversing
dominance.
Although
have
long‐term
interactions,
they
depend
abiotic
(nutrient)
contexts.
Therefore,
are
mitigate
inequality
prevent
exclusion
anthropogenic
fertilisation.
Read
free
Plain
Language
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for
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article
Journal
blog.
Ecological Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
39(3), P. 257 - 272
Published: Jan. 30, 2024
Abstract
Mounting
evidence
suggests
that
reciprocal
interactions
between
plants
and
the
soil
microbiota
can
be
a
primary
force
generates
key
macroscopic
patterns
of
plant
communities
(coexistence,
dominance,
succession)
in
forest
ecosystems.
The
aim
this
article
is
to
review
empirical
theoretical
perspectives
plant–soil
feedback
research
context
community
ecology.
I
first
use
simple
model
get
insights
into
an
array
dynamics
generated
by
feedback:
negative
maintains
species
diversity
reduces
growth,
while
positive
drives
growth
certain
hence
their
dominance.
then
describe
how
ecologists
have
unveiled
enormously
complex
plant‐microbiota
interaction
(i.e.,
conditioning
experiment)
linkage
with
three
patterns:
(i)
(ii)
spatial
structure
(iii)
succession.
highlight
one
belowground
trait
(mycorrhizal
type)
mediate
these
linkages:
arbuscular
mycorrhizal
tend
exhibit
ectomycorrhizal
feedback.
Although
potentially
explains
tree
from
local
global
scales,
many
questions
remain.
Future
studies
should
expand
theory
incorporate
numerous
other
mechanisms
test
types
net
effects
could
propagate
shape
large‐scale
structures
dynamics.
Ecology Letters,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
27(5)
Published: May 1, 2024
Abstract
Pairwise
interactions
between
species
can
be
modified
by
other
community
members,
leading
to
emergent
dynamics
contingent
on
composition.
Despite
the
prevalence
of
such
higher‐order
interactions,
little
is
known
about
how
they
are
linked
timing
and
order
species'
arrival.
We
generate
population
from
a
mechanistic
plant–soil
feedback
model,
then
apply
general
theoretical
framework
show
that
modification
pairwise
interaction
third
plant
depends
its
germination
phenology.
These
time‐dependent
modifications
emerge
concurrent
changes
in
microbe
populations
strengthened
higher
overlap
plants'
associated
microbiomes.
The
this
specificity
microbiomes
further
determines
coexistence.
Our
widely
applicable
mechanisms
systems
which
similar
emerge,
highlighting
need
integrate
temporal
shifts
predict
natural
communities.
Functional Ecology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 13, 2025
Abstract
It
is
increasingly
recognized
that
resource
competition
and
plant–soil
feedback
(PSF)
effects
can
jointly
determine
outcomes
of
plant
interactions.
However,
it
less
clear
whether
PSF
modulates
intraspecific
or
interspecific
intrinsic
growth
rate.
Thus,
remains
to
be
answered
alters
coexistence
predictions
by
changing
the
competitive
ability
interacting
species
(fitness
differences)
rather
altering
self‐limitation
(niche
differences).
Here,
I
examined
host‐specific
soil
inoculum,
including
target
competitor
non‐specific
inoculum
on
pairwise
interactions
four
pairs
grassland
perennials.
To
explore
were
persistent
dependent
availability,
studied
over
a
two‐year
period
under
control
fertilized
conditions.
These
data
then
used
estimate
fitness
differences
niche
differences,
predict
coexistence.
found
promote
competing
plants
in
two
ways.
First,
increased
due
intense
competitor.
Second,
competitively
inferior
was
more
likely
conspecific
its
negative
effect
persisted
throughout
experimental
but
absent
after
nutrient
addition.
In
conclusion,
increasing
reversing
dominance.
Although
have
long‐term
interactions,
they
depend
abiotic
(nutrient)
contexts.
Therefore,
are
mitigate
inequality
prevent
exclusion
anthropogenic
fertilisation.
Read
free
Plain
Language
Summary
for
this
article
Journal
blog.
