C. Wagg

Effects of recurrent summer droughts on arbuscular mycorrhizal and total fungal communities in experimental grasslands differing in plant diversity and community composition

This study examines how recurrent summer droughts affect soil fungal communities in grasslands with varying plant diversity and composition, finding no buffering effect of diversity and highlighting the role of plant functional groups.

Diversity and asynchrony in soil microbial communities stabilizes ecosystem functioning

This study shows that soil microbial diversity loss reduces the temporal stability of ecosystem functions, with asynchrony among microbial taxa playing a key role.

Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities

The paper examines how plant community history, soil legacy, and plant diversity influence soil microbial communities over time in a field experiment.

Co-occurrence history increases ecosystem temporal stability and recovery from a flood in experimental plant communities

The paper shows that plant communities with a history of co-occurrence are more stable and recover better from flooding than naive communities, even at low diversity.

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

This paper compares biodiversity experiments to real-world plant communities and finds that experimental results are robust to the inclusion of unrealistic communities.

Diversity-dependent plant-soil feedbacks underlie long-term plant diversity effects on primary productivity

The paper investigates how plant diversity affects primary productivity through soil feedbacks, finding that both plant-plant and plant-soil interactions mediate these effects, influenced by soil history and abiotic/biotic pathways.

Rhizosphere bacterial community composition depends on plant diversity legacy in soil and plant species identity

The paper investigates how plant diversity legacy and species identity influence rhizosphere bacterial communities over time, finding that soil legacy and plant species identity, not plant legacy, drive microbial community structure.

Diversity loss selects for altered plant phenotypic responses to local arbuscular mycorrhizal communities

The paper shows that plant diversity loss alters growth and defence responses to local arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities, with species-specific effects.

Community evolution increases plant productivity at low diversity

The paper shows that plant community evolution enhances productivity at low diversity but not at high diversity, with no effect from simulated co-evolutionary processes.