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The authors recommend climate-comparable designs and management-intensity information to isolate microbial contributions to forest productivity.
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e0“Overall, our results indicate that soil microbial communities are differentially associated with forest productivity across forest types and environmental contexts and underscore the need for future climate-comparable designs and management-intensity information to more robustly isolate microbial contributions.”
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Soil Microbes Mediate Productivity Differences Between Natural and Plantation Forests
Xing Zhang; Mengya Yang; Yangyang Liu; et al. Plants 2025. doi:10.3390/plants15010098
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- Association Plantation productivity responded nonlinearly to microbial diversity and appeared more sensitive than natural forests.
- Observation Natural forests had higher bacterial Shannon and Chao1 diversity.
- Observation Natural forests had lower fungal Chao1 diversity.
- Observation Natural forests were characterized by Nitrobacter.
- Observation Natural forests were characterized by Bradyrhizobium.
- Observation Natural forests were characterized by Cortinarius.
- Observation Plantations were characterized by Sphingomonas, a taxon associated with disturbance tolerance and opportunistic strategies.
- Observation Plantations were characterized by Fusarium, a taxon associated with disturbance tolerance and opportunistic strategies.
- Observation Plantations were characterized by Gemmatimonas, a taxon associated with disturbance tolerance and opportunistic strategies.
- Association Climate was the strongest correlate of forest productivity in structural equation models.
- Association Soil properties had contrasting associations with microbial diversity across forest types.
- Association Cation-exchange capacity and total nitrogen were key predictors of microbial diversity in plantations.