Claim · model-written summary
Microbes altered relative competition with conspecific versus congeneric neighbours in ways often predicted to enhance coexistence.
- Treatment
- Microbese1
- Interactor
- Microbese1symbiont
- Outcome
- relative strength of interactions with conspecific vs. congeneric neighbourse0
- Comparator
- competition in sterilized soile1
TrifoliumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“altered the relative strength of interactions with conspecific vs. congeneric neighbours, which often occurred in ways predicted to enhance coexistence”
e1“Microbes in general reduced the strength of plant competition relative to competition in sterilized soil”
t0“Trifolium congeners”
Title
Andrew Siefert; Kenneth W. Zillig; Maren L. Friesen; et al. Journal of Ecology 2018. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13042
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Soil microbes increased Trifolium growth.
- Intervention effect Soil microbes increased Trifolium nodulation.
- Intervention effect Microbes reduced plant competition relative to sterilized soil.
- Intervention effect A highly co-occurring Trifolium pair facilitated each other in full microbial communities after strong competition in sterilized soil.
- Intervention effect Soil microbes increased Trifolium performance over sterilized soil.