{"id":5477,"date":"2024-10-25T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2024-10-25T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:07:11","slug":"positive-plant-diversity-effects-on-soil-detritivore-feeding-activity-and-stability-increase-with-ecosystem-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/positive-plant-diversity-effects-on-soil-detritivore-feeding-activity-and-stability-increase-with-ecosystem-age\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication from Bonato Asato et al. in Soil Biology and Biochemistry: Positive plant diversity effects on soil detritivore feeding activity and stability increase with ecosystem age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify\">Increasing species diversity frequently enhances ecosystem functioning &#8211;  a pattern strengthened with ecosystem age. It has been suggested that  strengthened responses over time may be due to community assembly  processes and cumulative effects over the history of interactions  between and among plant and soil communities. However, most soil studies  are conducted with destructive one-time samplings, and little is known  about how phenological patterns of soil activity change with  biodiversity and ecosystem age. Here, we investigate phenology metrics  related to soil detritivore feeding activity (i.e., duration, total  magnitude, variability), measured <em>via<\/em> the bait-lamina method,  in a long-term grassland biodiversity experiment that included an  experimental removal of plant and soil history, resulting in older and  younger assembled plant and soil communities. Detritivore feeding  activity peaked in spring and\/or early summer, with another short  increase in fall. Increased plant species richness enhanced the total  magnitude and variability (i.e., the coefficient of variation) of  detritivore feeding activity. Plant and soil history enhanced the  buffering effects of plant richness on variability, causing older plant  and soil communities to have the strongest relationships between plant  richness and stability. However, older plant and soil communities showed  the shortest duration of detritivore feeding activity, and species  richness was not important in changing activity duration. These findings  underscore the importance of considering ecosystem age as a critical  component that modifies plant diversity effects on ecosystem  functioning, with important implications for promoting ecosystem  stability and resilience under environmental change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-s2.0-S0038071724003262-gr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5479\" width=\"495\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-s2.0-S0038071724003262-gr1.jpg 389w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/1-s2.0-S0038071724003262-gr1-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><figcaption> <strong>The main hypotheses<\/strong>  in this study, designed to test if plant diversity increases activity  duration and total magnitude of soil detritivore feeding activity (A)  while decreasing its seasonal activity variability (B).  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Reference: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonato Asato, A. E., A. Ebeling, C. Wirth, N. Eisenhauer, and J. Hines. 2025. Positive plant diversity effects on soil detritivore feeding activity and stability increase with ecosystem age. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 200:109637. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.soilbio.2024.109637\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.soilbio.2024.109637<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing species diversity frequently enhances ecosystem functioning &#8211; a pattern strengthened with ecosystem age. It has been suggested that strengthened responses over time may be due to community assembly processes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5480,"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\/5477"}],"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=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}