Claim · model-written summary
Festuca had greater drought responsiveness and trait plasticity than Lolium.
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Verbatim
e0“Festuca showed greater responsiveness to drought, exhibiting higher trait plasticity and more pronounced shifts in its microbial communities—particularly in bacteria—than Lolium”
Title
Contrasting drought responses in two grassland plant–microbe systems under climate change
Gang Yang; Lisa Capponi; Michael Bahn; et al. Journal of Ecology 2026. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.70251
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Association Festuca microbial communities shifted more under drought than Lolium communities.
- Observation Lolium had limited trait plasticity and relatively stable microbiomes.
- Association Lolium had consistently higher rhizosphere fungal richness.
- Intervention effect Warming and elevated CO2 partly mitigated drought-related bacterial richness declines in Festuca rhizosphere.