Invasive plants can alter soil microbial communities and generate positive plant–soil
feedbacks that facilitate their performance, but the magnitude and direction of feedbacks …

Invasive plants disrupt native biodiversity and ecosystem functions and their distribution
increase with ongoing global land-use changes. Clarifying plant nitrogen (N) uptake and …

Conspecific density dependence (CDD) in plant populations is widespread, most likely
caused by local‐scale biotic interactions, and has potentially important implications for …

Tree-herb intercropping is a prospective approach for the ecological remediation of soil
contaminated with potentially toxic metals (PTMs). In this study, the facilitation and microbial …

Mounting evidence suggests that plant–soil feedbacks (PSF) may determine plant
community structure. However, we still have a poor understanding of how predictions from …

Background and aims Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) play an important role in mediating plant
species coexistence, community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Soil biota (eg …

Terrestrial plant communities often become invaded by alien species, which may benefit
from high growth rates, strong phenotypic plasticity and reduced negative impacts from local …

Plants affect associated biotic and abiotic edaphic factors, with reciprocal feedbacks from
soil characteristics affecting plants. These two‐way interactions between plants and soils are …

Soil microorganisms play a critical role in shaping the biodiversity dynamics of plant
communities. These microbial effects can arise through direct mediation of plant fitness by …

Understanding the relationship between plant diversity and invasibility is essential in
invasion ecology. Species‐rich communities are hypothesized to be more resistant to …