with Rashmi Shrestha, Stephanie Gerin, Annalea Lohila, Jussi Heinonsalo, Daniel Nelson, Ansgar Kahmen, Pengpeng Duan, David Sebag, Eric Verrecchia and Anna-Liisa Laine
📄🚨Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils. New #TwinWin paper out in Nature Communications! Great lead by Luiz Domeignoz
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52449-5
Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils - Nature Communications
The expansion and intensification of agriculture has led to a loss of soil carbon. Here the authors show that increasing plant diversity within an agricultural soil increases positive associations within the soil microbial community, which increases carbon use efficiency.
"The potential of undersown species identity vs. diversity to manage disease in crops" 📄out now in
#FunctionalEcology. Good news: single species can be used to suppress early season disease of barley, if these species are at sufficient abundance! 1st results from
#TwinWin Experiment! With L. Domeignoz Horta, S. Gerin, J. Heinosalo, A. Lohila, K. Raveala, B. Schmid, R. Shrestha, M. Tiusanen , P. Thitz and A.-L. Laine
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14592Those context dependencies indicate strong interactions between different global change drivers, diversity loss and functional composition shifts for ecosystem functioning. (6/6)
Species richness increased multifunctionality in fast-growing plant communities, but not in slow-growing ones. The positive effects of functional diversity on multifunctionality disappeared with nitrogen fertilization and fungal pathogen exclusion. (5/6)
Both species richness and diversity in fast-slow traits increased multifunctionality, but that was very much context dependent. (4/6)
In the
#PaNDiv biodiversity experiment we measured 10 different above- and belowground ecosystem functions during our PhDs, that Noémie then used to calculate multifunctionality across different thresholds. (3/6)
This paper is the product of a huge team effort with Eric Allan, Santi Soliveres, Tosca Mannall, Thu Zar New, Norbert Hölzel, Valentin Klaus, Till Kleinbecker, Hugo Vincent and dozens of student fieldwork helpers. (2/6)
Paper alert: *Nitrogen availability and plant functional composition modify
#biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships* After four years and six journals this wonderful piece led by
@NA_pichon is finally out. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... (1/6)
We had our first bison meat from North Star bison today. Some of North Stars bisons help maintaining the Cedar Creek prairies right next to the experiment where I am studying the role of trophic interactions. I guess I am now an apex predator in my study ecosystem.
