Plant Diversity Exerts a Stronger Influence than Short-Term Climate Manipulations on the Structure of Soil Bacterial Communities
Mingxuan Yi, Pengfei Cong, Dongming Zhang, Jiangong You, Yan Zhang, Wentao Jing, Liwen Shang, Hermann J Heipieper · 2025
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Mingxuan Yi and co-authors test which force shapes soil bacteria more: the plants above ground or shifts in climate. They built a grassland with one, three, or six plant species and crossed those plots with warming of two degrees and half again as much rain. Their 2025 paper reads the bacterial communities from gene sequencing of the soil.
Plant diversity proved the stronger hand. Bacterial communities clustered neatly along the diversity gradient, while warming and extra rain mattered less in this short run. One versatile genus grew richer in mid-diversity plots with extra rain, hinting at faster breakdown of dead matter. Total variety held steady, though diversity and warming together nudged its pattern. The authors argue that plant-soil feedback belongs in climate models, since the plants may steer how soil life answers a changing sky.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mingxuan Yi, Pengfei Cong, Dongming Zhang, Jiangong You, Yan Zhang, Wentao Jing, Liwen Shang, Hermann J Heipieper |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |