An invasive plant rapidly increased the similarity of soil fungal pathogen communities

• Published in: Annals of botany Vol. 127; no. 3; pp. 327 - 336
• Main Authors: Wang, Meiling, Tang, Xuefei, Sun, Xiaoqiu, Jia, Bingbing, Xu, Hao, Jiang, Suai, Siemann, Evan, Lu, Xinmin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 09.02.2021
• Subjects: Amaranthaceae; Animals; Herbivory; Mycobiome; Original; Plants; Soil; Soil Microbiology; rapid responses; Above- and below-ground interactions; community divergence; density-dependent impacts; biotic homogenization; fungal pathogens; plant invasions; plant–soil feedbacks

Plant invasions can change soil microbial communities and affect subsequent invasions directly or indirectly via foliar herbivory. It has been proposed that invaders promote uniform biotic communities that displace diverse, spatially variable communities (the biotic homogenization hypothesis), but t...