Background Plants condition the soil in which they grow, thereby altering the performance of
subsequent plants growing in this soil. This phenomenon, known as plant-soil feedback …

While it is now widely accepted that microorganisms provide essential functions in
restoration ecology, the nature of relationships between microbial community assembly and …

Restoring ecosystems has been a key strategy to combat land degradation and reverse
losses in biodiversity. Because interactions between communities above and below the …

Plant–soil feedbacks (PSF) and functional traits are two active but not well theoretically
integrated areas of research. However, PSF and traits are both affected by life‐history …

Despite a century of study by ecologists, recovery following disturbances (succession) is not
fully understood. This book provides the first global synthesis that compares plant …

Micobial community (diversity and functional traits) underpin the sustainability of
agroecosystems. Assembly processes influence microbial community composition and in …

A dominant paradigm in ecology is that plants are limited by nitrogen (N) during primary
succession. Whether generalizable patterns of nutrient limitation are also applicable to …

Soil addition is now widely used in the restoration of degraded ecosystems, but how soil
addition influences multiple ecological functions of degraded grasslands, and whether these …

Understanding plant community succession is one of the original pursuits of ecology,
forming some of the earliest theoretical frameworks in the field. Much of this was built on the …

The success of invasive plants is influenced by many interacting factors, but evaluating
multiple possible mechanisms of invasion success and elucidating the relative importance of …