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Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils

Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment may drive shifts in soil microbial communities. Here, the authors analyse nitrogen and phosphorus addition effects on soil fungi in a distributed grassland experiment across four continents, finding promotion of pathogens, suppression of mutualists, and no shifts in saprotrophs.

Ylva Lekberg
Carlos A. Arnillas
Jeremiah A. Henning
ResearchOpen Access09 Jun 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-8
Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands

By combining modelling and simulated data with empirical data from 76 grassland sites across 6 continents, the authors show that the relative abundance of dominant species predicts species richness, while their absolute abundance predicts community biomass.

Pengfei Zhang
Eric W. Seabloom
Elizabeth T. Borer
Research13 May 2025
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 9, P: 924-936
The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

Soil carbon content is positively related with plant diversity in global grasslands, and this relationship is particularly strong in warm and arid climates. Plant diversity is related to soil carbon via the quality of organic matter.

Marie Spohn
Sumanta Bagchi
Laura Yahdjian
ResearchOpen Access19 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-10
Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication

Anthropogenic eutrophication is a driver of plant community shifts in many grassland ecosystems. Here, the authors use data from a globally distributed experiment to assess how nutrient addition affects multiple facets of grassland ecological stability and their correlations.

Qingqing Chen
Shaopeng Wang
Yann Hautier
ResearchOpen Access11 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

The insurance hypothesis posits that more diverse communities are more stable through time. Here, the authors show that plant biodiversity reduces the spatial variability of productivity in grassland communities, demonstrating that the insurance hypothesis applies also across space.

Pedro Daleo
Juan Alberti
Yann Hautier
ResearchOpen Access31 Mar 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Insufficient sampling constrains our characterization of plant microbiomes

Lorinda S. Bullington
Ylva Lekberg
Beau G. Larkin
ResearchOpen Access11 Feb 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-14
Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

A study using data from grasslands on six continents finds unimodal relationships between plant biomass and abiotic ecosystem characteristics and also shows that soil nitrogen and plant diversity interact in their relationships with plant biomass.

Marie Spohn
Sumanta Bagchi
Eric W. Seabloom
ResearchOpen Access21 Jan 2025
Communications Biology

Volume: 8, P: 1-11
Acquisition and evolution of enhanced mutualism—an underappreciated mechanism for invasive success?

Min Sheng
Christoph Rosche
Ylva Lekberg
Research23 Jul 2022
The ISME Journal

Volume: 16, P: 2467-2478
Severe plant invasions can increase mycorrhizal fungal abundance and diversity

Ylva Lekberg
Sean M Gibbons
Philip W Ramsey
Research14 Mar 2013
The ISME Journal

Volume: 7, P: 1424-1433
Revisiting the ‘direct mineral cycling’ hypothesis: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonize leaf litter, but why?

Rebecca A. Bunn
Dylan T. Simpson
David P. Janos
ReviewsOpen Access25 Mar 2019
The ISME Journal

Volume: 13, P: 1891-1898

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