Claim · model-written summary
Aboveground productivity correlated positively with soil microbial richness only under defoliation.
- Taxon
- plantt0
- Treatment
- defoliatione0
- Outcome
- ANPPe0
- Direction
- positively correlatede0
- Qualifier
- only when plants suffered defoliatione0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Verbatim
e0“ANPP was positively correlated with soil microbial richness only when plants suffered defoliation”
t0“plant productivity”
Title
Defoliation enhances the positive effects of soil microbial diversity on plant productivity
Ruihuan Zhang; Ping Zhou; Yuqi Wei; et al. Functional Ecology 2023. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14449
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Defoliation decreased community aboveground and belowground net primary productivity.
- Intervention effect Soil microbial diversity loss decreased community aboveground and belowground net primary productivity.
- Observation Medicago falcata responded more strongly to these treatments than Leymus chinensis and Artemisia frigida.
- Association Belowground productivity had a closer relationship with soil fungal richness than bacterial richness.
- Association Defoliation strengthened the relationship of belowground productivity with soil fungal richness.
- Mechanism The model indicated that defoliation indirectly regulated aboveground productivity through plant phosphorus content.
- Mechanism Bacterial diversity loss reduced aboveground productivity through altered plant phosphorus.
- Mechanism Fungal diversity loss directly decreased belowground productivity.
- Association Bacterial biomarkers significantly contributed to variation in aboveground productivity under defoliation.
- Association Fungal biomarkers significantly contributed to variation in belowground productivity under defoliation.
- Observation Defoliation enhanced phosphorus acquisition by soil microorganisms.