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Journal Article
Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO₂ and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment
2013
Overview
Recent metaanalyses suggest biodiversity loss affects the functioning of ecosystems to a similar extent as other global environmental change agents. However, the abundance and functioning of soil organisms have been hypothesized to be much less responsive to such changes, particularly in plant diversity, than aboveground variables, although tests of this hypothesis are extremely rare. We examined the responses of soil food webs (soil microorganisms, nematodes, microarthropods) to 13-y manipulation of multiple environmental factors that are changing at global scales—specifically plant species richness, atmospheric CO₂, and N deposition—in a grassland experiment in Minnesota. Plant diversity was a strong driver of the structure and functioning of soil food webs through several bottom-up (resource control) effects, whereas CO₂ and N only had modest effects. We found few interactions between plant diversity and CO₂ and N, likely because of weak interactive effects of those factors on resource availability (e.g., root biomass). Plant diversity effects likely were large because high plant diversity promoted the accumulation of soil organic matter in the site's sandy, organic matter-poor soils. Plant diversity effects were not explained by the presence of certain plant functional groups. Our results underline the prime importance of plant diversity loss cascading to soil food webs (density and diversity of soil organisms) and functions. Because the present results suggest prevailing plant diversity effects and few interactions with other global change drivers, protecting plant diversity may be of high priority to maintain the biodiversity and functioning of soils in a changing world.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences,National Acad Sciences
Subject
/ Animal, plant and microbial ecology
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Biomass
/ Biota
/ Carbon Dioxide - administration & dosage
/ Carbon Dioxide - pharmacology
/ Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change
/ Exact sciences and technology
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Grasses
/ Nematoda
/ Nitrogen - administration & dosage
/ Plants
/ Poaceae - growth & development
/ Soil
