Claim · model-written summary
Soil gradient increased fungal richness indirectly through vegetation.
- Taxon
- vegetatione0
- Outcome
- fungal richnesse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- indirect effect on vegetatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Soil gradient increased fungal richness through indirect effect on vegetation rather than direct effect.”
Title
Xiaoan Zuo; Shaokun Wang; Peng Lv; et al. Ecology and Evolution 2015. doi:10.1002/ece3.1875
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Soil fungal richness was lower in mobile and semifixed dunes than in fixed dunes and grassland.
- Association Soil fungal richness was positively associated with plant richness, biomass, CWM height and soil gradient.
- Association SEM attributed direct effects on fungal richness to plant richness and CWM height determined by soil properties.
- Mechanism FDis had a negative indirect effect on soil fungal richness via plant biomass.
- Method / resource The SEM model explained nearly 70% of soil fungal richness variance.
- Association The association between fungal richness and dominant species supported the mass ratio hypothesis.