Two fundamental questions for wetland restoration science are: how do early management practices affect long term plant species diversity, and how does diversity affect ecological function?
In contrast, the importance of plant diversity remained rather constant, suggesting that in the long term plant diversity effects on soil biota are more important than the presence of key plant functional groups and plant productivity.
Our results demonstrate that in the long term plant diversity essentially drives the performance of soil biota questioning the paradigm that belowground communities are not affected by plant diversity and reinforcing the importance of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning.
"It's one of the natural things that happens in order to stabilize the soils and enable the long-term plants, the chaparral plants and scrub vegetation to come back in," said O'Brien.
Apart from simply applying individual biocontrol microbes, there are now efforts to improve, facilitate and maintain long-term plant colonization.
Elevated nitrogen (N) deposition can alter the composition and availability of soil phosphorus (P) and thus affect long-term plant growth.
Concentrating in archaeology, I have focused primarily on long-term plant-human interactions in the South American region, although I have also worked in Turkey.
Then, the available ORC power output for each case was predicted using actual long-term plant operation data and a validated off-design analysis model.
Then, efforts for industrial scaling up and corresponding long-term plant trial results are presented to show enormous potential of state-of-the-art catalysts.
Strecker, T., Mace, O. G., Scheu, S. & Eisenhauer, N. Functional composition of plant communities determines the spatial and temporal stability of soil microbial properties in a long-term plant diversity experiment.
