Plant-Soil Feedbacks Provide an Alternative Explanation for Diversity-Productivity Relationships
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Plant-soil feedbacks provide an additional explanation for diversity-productivity relationships.
Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) have gained attention for their role in plant community dynamics, but their role in productivity has been overlooked. We developed and tested a biomass-specific, multi-species model to examine the role of PSFs in diversity-productivity relationships. The model predicts a negative relationship between PSFs and overyielding: plants with negative PSFs grow more in commu...
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