Relative importance of soil properties and microbial community for soil functionality insights from a microbial swap experiment

• Published in: Functional ecology Vol. 30; no. 11; pp. 1862 - 1873
• Main Authors: Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Grinyer, Jasmine, Reich, Peter B., Singh, Brajesh K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Wiley 01.11.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Abundance; Availability; broad functioning; carbon; Denitrification; Ecosystem ecology; Ecosystems; Environmental changes; Enzymatic activity; enzyme activity; Enzymes; Factorial design; inoculum; Microbial activity; microbial communities; microbial community; Microbiomes; Microorganisms; Multivariate statistical analysis; Nitrogen; Resource availability; Respiration; scanning electron microscopy; Soil ecology; soil ecosystems; Soil properties; soil respiration; Soils; specialized functioning; structural equation modeling; Terrestrial ecosystems; Terrestrial environments

Summary The most accepted theories in soil ecology suggest that broad (e.g. respiration) and specialized (e.g. denitrification) functions are affected differently by resource availability and microbial communities in terrestrial ecosystems. However, there is a lack of experimental approaches quantif...