Towards the influence of plant-soil-microbes feedbacks on plant biodiversity, grassland variability and productivity
The processes able to regulate plant abundance and distribution have generaily been studied by addressing aboveground interactions such as plant - plant competitive interactions, plant - herbivores and/or parasites relationships and disturbance creating new patches for plant colonization. Importantly, it is now well established that plant species dynamic is tightly interlinked with the development of soil community. The rhizosphere, i.e. the biologically active soil compartment where root-root and root-microbes communications occurred, is of particular importance in mediating plant fitness and community composition. This active soil zone promotes inter alfa the proliferation of particular microbial communities strongly involved in plant nutrition capabilities. Nutrients are heterogeneously distributed in soil and also, nutrients uptake by plants results in depletion zone around roots. Therefore, plant species differential capacity (i) to perform strategies allowing them to colonize soil patches or, (ii) to select microbial communities that are specific in their genetic and functional diversities and/or (iii) to form efficient microbial symbiosis for acquisition of nutrients, could be considered as main biological factors to explain the spatial distribution and the maintenance of multispecies association in plant communities. This chapter aims at reviewing some of the recent advances made in understanding plant species composition mainly in grassland communities through the involvement of plant-soil-microbes feedbacks. We will focus on interactions between plants and soil heterogeneity and/or rhizosphere microbes in affecting plant species competitive dominance.
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | book_section biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Nova Science Publishers
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| Subjects: | F40 - Écologie végétale, P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières, P34 - Biologie du sol, herbage, micro-organisme du sol, biodiversité, plante herbacée, Mycorhizé, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3366, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_36167, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33949, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27977, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5023, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/557921/ |
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