Plant-Soil Feedbacks of Plantago lanceolata in the Field Depend on Plant Origin and Herbivory

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

Plant-soil feedbacks have been implicated in several successful plant invasions. However, simple identification of a feedback alone may not be enough to establish feedbacks as a mechanism behind plant invasion. I suggest that the relationship between soil community density and plant growth is an important unknown that strongly influences the impact of plant-soil feedbacks. I developed a mathema...

Consequences of plant–soil feedbacks in invasion

Katharine N. Suding*, William Stanley Harpole, Tadashi Fukami, Andrew Kulmatiski, Andrew S. MacDougall, Claudia Stein and Wim H. van der Putten Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California at Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA; Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 133 Bessey Hall, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Department of Biolo...

Legacy effects of drought on plant - soil feedbacks and plant - plant interactions 1 2

Legacy effects of drought on plant-soil feedbacks and plant-plant interactions.

Interactions between aboveground and belowground biota have the potential to modify ecosystem responses to climate change, yet little is known about how drought influences plant-soil feedbacks with respect to microbial mediation of plant community dynamics. We tested the hypothesis that drought modifies plant-soil feedback with consequences for plant competition. We measured net pairwise plant-...

Effects of Herbivory on Plant and Soil Characteristics; Allometric Relationships Change among Different Grazing Sites