{"id":5151,"date":"2024-07-10T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2024-07-10T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:24:40","slug":"new-publication-from-de-souza-in-fems-microbiology-ecology-the-effect-of-successive-summer-drought-periods-on-bacterial-diversity-along-a-plant-species-richness-gradient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/new-publication-from-de-souza-in-fems-microbiology-ecology-the-effect-of-successive-summer-drought-periods-on-bacterial-diversity-along-a-plant-species-richness-gradient\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication from de Souza in FEMS Microbiology Ecology: The effect of successive summer drought periods on bacterial diversity along a plant species richness gradient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">Drought is a major stressor to soil microbial communities, and the  intensification of climate change is predicted to increase hydric stress  worldwide in the coming decades. As a possible mitigating factor for  the consequences of prolonged drought periods, above and belowground  biodiversity can increase ecosystem resistance and resilience by  improving metabolic redundancy and complementarity as biodiversity  increases. Here, we investigated the interaction effect between plant  richness and successive, simulated summer drought on soil microbial  communities during a period of 9 years.To do that, we made use of a  well-established biodiversity experiment (The Jena Experiment) to  investigate the response of microbial richness and community composition  to successive drought periods alongside a plant richness gradient,  which covers 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, 16- and 60-species plant communities. Plots  were covered from natural precipitation by installing rain shelters 6  weeks every summer. Bulk soil samples were collected 1 year after the  last summer drought was simulated. Our data indicate that bacterial  richness increased after successive exposure to drought, with the  increase being stable along the plant richness gradient. We identified a  significant effect of plant species richness on the soil microbial  community composition and determined the taxa significantly impacted by  drought at each plant richness level. Our data successfully demonstrates  that summer drought might have a legacy effect on soil bacterial  communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5153\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262-1024x571.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262-300x167.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262-768x429.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262.png 1061w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Reference:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>de Souza, Y. P. A., R. Siani, C. Albracht, Y. Huang, N. Eisenhauer, et al. 2024. The effect of successive summer drought periods on bacterial diversity along a plant species richness gradient. FEMS Microbiology Ecology:fiae096. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/femsec\/fiae096\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/femsec\/fiae096<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drought is a major stressor to soil microbial communities, and the intensification of climate change is predicted to increase hydric stress worldwide in the coming decades. As a possible mitigating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5152,"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\/5151"}],"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=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5154,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions\/5154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}