Cover crops are used in cropping systems to enhance ecosystem services, such as soil
resilience to erosion or microbial activity. Different cover crops are selected to steer specific …

Trait‐based approaches have been increasingly used to relate plants to soil microbial
communities. Using the recently described root economics space as an approach to explain …

In the absence of chemical control with its negative side effects, fungal pathogens can cause
large yield losses, requiring us to develop agroecosystems that are inherently disease …

Variations in soil micro-food web characteristics under changing environments can exert
profound consequences on soil multifunctionality. However, the intrinsic relationship …

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning strengthens with
ecosystem age. However, the interplay between the plant diversity-ecosystem functioning …

Crop diversification enhances agroecosystem productivity, yet underlying mechanisms,
particularly those underground, remain unclear. Diversification practices, such as strip …

Plant diversity is an important driver of many ecosystem processes within and among trophic
levels. There is growing evidence that the strength of plant diversity effects depends on the …

Plant roots interact with diverse fungi that are essential for maintaining the productivity and
sustainability of pasture ecosystems, but how these root-associated fungi (RAF) differ …

Background and aims Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are common mutualists in
grassland and savanna systems that are adapted to recurrent fire disturbance. This long …

羊草(Leymus chinensis) 草原是中国草地资源中珍贵的自然财富, 其生产力受到多种全球变化
因素的制约. 其中, 少花蒺藜草(Cenchrus spinifex) 入侵(以下简称为“入侵”) …