{"id":4086,"date":"2022-12-01T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:41:37","slug":"new-publication-from-ristok-et-al-in-journal-of-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/new-publication-from-ristok-et-al-in-journal-of-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Ristok et al. in Journal of Ecology: Plant diversity effects on herbivory are related to soil biodiversity and plant chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"justify\"><li>Insect herbivory is a key process in ecosystem  functioning. While theory predicts that plant diversity modulates  herbivory, the mechanistic links remain unclear. We postulated that the  plant metabolome mechanistically links plant diversity and herbivory.<\/li><li>In late summer and in spring, we assessed individual  plant above-ground herbivory rates and metabolomes of seven plant  species in experimental plant communities varying in plant species  diversity and resource acquisition strategies. In the same communities,  we also measured plant individual biomass as well as soil microbial and  nematode community composition.<\/li><li>Herbivory rates decreased with increasing plant  species richness. Path modelling revealed that plant species richness  and community resource acquisition strategy correlated with soil  community composition. In particular, changes in nematode community  composition were related to plant metabolome composition and thereby  herbivory rates.<\/li><li><em>Synthesis<\/em>. These results suggest that soil  community composition plays an important role in reducing herbivory  rates with increasing plant diversity by changing plant metabolomes.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"548\" height=\"542\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-197.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4087\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-197.png 548w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-197-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ristok, C.,  Weinhold, A.,  Ciobanu, M.,  Poeschl, Y.,  Roscher, C.,  Vergara, F.,  Eisenhauer, N., &amp;  van Dam, N. M. (2022).  Plant diversity effects on herbivory are related to soil biodiversity and plant chemistry. <em>Journal of Ecology<\/em>,  00,  1\u2013 16. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2745.14032\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2745.14032<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insect herbivory is a key process in ecosystem functioning. While theory predicts that plant diversity modulates herbivory, the mechanistic links remain unclear. We postulated that the plant metabolome mechanistically links&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}