{"id":5648,"date":"2025-03-23T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2025-03-23T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:15:06","slug":"new-publication-from-amyntas-et-al-in-journal-of-animal-ecology-shared-community-history-strengthens-plant-diversity-effects-on-below-ground-multitrophic-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/new-publication-from-amyntas-et-al-in-journal-of-animal-ecology-shared-community-history-strengthens-plant-diversity-effects-on-below-ground-multitrophic-functioning\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Amyntas et al. in Journal of Animal Ecology: Shared community history strengthens plant diversity effects on below-ground multitrophic functioning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"justify\"><li>The relationship of plant diversity and several  ecosystem functions strengthens over time. This suggests that the  restructuring of biotic interactions in the process of a community&#8217;s  assembly and the associated changes in function differ between  species-rich and species-poor communities. An important component of  these changes is the feedback between plant and soil community history.<\/li><li>In this study, we examined the interactive effects of  plant richness and community history on the trophic functions of the  soil fauna community. We hypothesized that experimental removal of  either soil or plant community history would diminish the positive  effects of plant richness on the multitrophic functions of the soil food  web, compared to mature communities. We tested this hypothesis in a  long-term grassland biodiversity experiment by comparing plots across  three treatments (without plant history, without plant and soil history,  controls with ~20\u2009years of plot-specific community history).<\/li><li>We found that the relationship between plant richness  and below-ground multitrophic functionality is indeed stronger in  communities with shared plant and soil community history. Our findings  indicate that anthropogenic disturbance can impact the functioning of  the soil community through the loss of plant species but also by  preventing feedbacks that develop in the process of community assembly.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"376\" height=\"500\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/jane14241-fig-0001-m.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5649\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/jane14241-fig-0001-m.png 376w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/jane14241-fig-0001-m-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Reference:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Amyntas, A., B. Gauzens, M. Ciobanu, L. Warnke, M. Maraun, et al. 2025. Shared community history strengthens plant diversity effects on below-ground multitrophic functioning. Journal of Animal Ecology n\/a. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2656.14241\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2656.14241<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship of plant diversity and several ecosystem functions strengthens over time. This suggests that the restructuring of biotic interactions in the process of a community&#8217;s assembly and the associated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5649,"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\/5648"}],"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=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}