Claim · model-written summary
With soil biota present, drought increased allocation to root biomass.
- Taxon
- plantsViridiplantaee0
- Treatment
- droughte0
- Outcome
- root biomasse0
- Direction
- moree0
- Qualifier
- in the presence of soil biotae0
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Verbatim
e0“in the presence of soil biota, plants overall invested more in root biomass when exposed to drought”
Title
Contrasting responses of naturalized alien and native plants to native soil biota and drought
Hannah K. Ruppert; Mark van Kleunen; Rutger A. Wilschut Functional Ecology 2024. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14643
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Native soil communities increased plant biomass on average.
- Association Native plants gained less biomass benefit from soil communities than alien plants.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced alien plant performance more than native plant performance.
- Association Drought effects on plant biomass did not depend on soil community presence.
- Observation Competition effects were subtle and varied by species.
- Association Mycorrhizal colonization differences among species explained plant performance differences between soils.
- Observation Mycorrhizal colonization was similar in alien and native plants.
- Intervention effect Drought did not alter mycorrhizal colonization.