Resilience of microbial communities in Mediterranean soil after induced drought and manipulated <scp>UV</scp> radiation

Ecological Resilience of Soil Microbial Communities

Tree communities rapidly alter soil microbial resistance and resilience to drought

and resilience to drought David Rivest*, Alain Paquette, Bill Shipley, Peter B. Reich and Christian Messier D epartement des sciences naturelles and Institut des sciences de la forêt temp er ee (ISFORT), Universit e du Qu ebec en Outaouais, 58 rue Principale, Ripon, Qu ebec J0V 1V0, Canada; Centre d’ etude de la forêt, Universit e du Qu ebec a Montr eal, Case postale 8888, succursale Centre-Vil...

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

Although it is generally accepted that plant community composition is key for predicting rates of ecosystem processes in the face of global change, microbial community composition is often ignored in ecosystem modeling. To address this issue, we review recent experiments and assess whether microbial community composition is resistant, resilient, or functionally redundant in response to four dif...

Resilience of Freshwater Communities of Small Microbial Eukaryotes Undergoing Severe Drought Events

Small and shallow aquatic ecosystems such as ponds and streams constitute a significant proportion of continental surface waters, especially in temperate zones. In comparison with bigger lakes and rivers, they harbor higher biodiversity but they also exhibit reduced buffering capacity face to environmental shifts, such that climate global change can affect them in a more drastic way. For instan...

Effect of elevated CO2 and drought on soil microbial communities associated with Andropogon gerardii.

Our understanding of the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2, singly and in combination with other environmental changes,on plant-soil interactions is incomplete. Elevated CO2 effects on C4 plants, though smaller than on C3 species, are mediated mostly via decreased stomatal conductance and thus water loss. Therefore, we characterized the interactive effect of elevated CO2 and drought on soil m...