A5085342668- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant and animal studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Wageningen University & Research
2004-2023
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
2004-2019
Instituut voor Landbouw en Visserijonderzoek
2008
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007
Summary It is increasingly acknowledged that plant–soil feedbacks may play an important role in driving the composition of plant communities and functioning terrestrial ecosystems. However, mechanistic understanding feedbacks, as well their roles natural ecosystems proportion to other possible drivers, still its infancy. Such knowledge will enhance our capacity determine contribution feedback community ecosystem responses under global environmental change. Here, we review how develop extreme...
Summary 1. Feedback between plants and soil organisms has become widely recognized as a driving force of community composition ecosystem functioning. However, there is little uniformity in quantification analysis plant–soil feedback effects. Meta‐analysis suggested that the various experimental methods tend to result different values. Yet, direct comparison approaches their statistical analyses lacking. 2. We used currently applied calculate value ranges compared those based on actual...
Enemy release of exotic plants from soil pathogens has been tested by examining plant-soil feedback effects in repetitive growth cycles.However, positive may also be due to enhanced benefit the local arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF).Few studies actually have pathogen effects, and none them did so arid savannas.In Kalahari savanna Botswana, we compared grass Cenchrus biflorus with that two dominant native grasses, Eragrostis lehmanniana Aristida meridionalis.The had neutral feedback,...
To date, no study has explicitly addressed effects of variation in species diversity root‐feeding herbivores on host plant biomass. Root‐feeding nematodes typically occur multi‐species communities. In a three‐year field experiment, we investigated how affected nematode dynamics and response the dune grass Ammophila arenaria to root‐feeder activity. This needs regular burial by fresh beach sand remain vigorous, suggesting that A. benefits from temporary escape soil organisms root‐feeders are...
Current climate warming enables plant species and soil organisms to expand their range higher latitudes altitudes. At the same time, change increases incidence of extreme weather events such as drought. While it is expected that plants originating from south are better able cope with drought, little known about consequences shifts on functioning under drought events.Here, we test how range-expanding communities may influence We performed a full-factorial outdoor mesocosm experiment expanders...
Abstract We studied the effects of intra- and interspecific competition on abundance endoparasitic nematodes assessed consequences for biomass production natural dune grass Ammophila arenaria. Pratylenchus penetrans was limited by intraspecific it suppressed Heterodera arenaria, whilst interaction between H. arenaria Meloidogyne maritima neutral. reduced plant biomass, whereas M. did not. Plant not differently affected adding one or two nematode species. When added to older plants, numbers...
Plants use different types of responses such as tolerance and induced defense to mitigate the effects herbivores. The direction magnitude both these plant can vary with age. However, most studies have focused on aboveground herbivory, whereas important feeding occurs belowground. Here, we tested hypothesis that following shoot damage or root herbivory depends In order test our hypothesis, exposed perennial grass species Holcus lanatus defoliation nematode inoculation at three growth stages...
It is increasingly acknowledged that soil biota may influence interactions among plant species; however, little known about how to change historical influences of previous land management on biota, the so-called 'biotic legacy effect'. We used a two-phase community-soil feedback approach study species typical original (i.e. undisturbed) and degraded fen meadows effects community Carex are dominant in meadows. In phase 1, from original, degraded, successfully unsuccessfully restored was...
Plant damage inflicted by aboveground herbivores can occur at different stages of plant development and induce responses that affect the growth belowground herbivores. This study explores impacts herbivory on population dynamics root-feeding nematodes. We simulated clipping foliage grass species Holcus lanatus, tested how defoliation times (1, 4 or 7 weeks after nematode inoculation) influenced two species: endoparasitic Pratylenchus penetrans ectoparasitic Tylenchorhynchus dubius....