The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

Little is currently known about how climate modulates the relationship between plant diversity and soil organic carbon and the mechanisms ...

The study implies that ecosystem management that restores plant diversity likely enhances soil carbon sequestration, particularly in warm and arid climates.

The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

The relationships between plant diversity and soil carbon as well as plant diversity and soil organic matter quality (carbon-to-nitrogen ratio) ...

The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

Yet, this knowledge is of crucial importance in times of climate change and biodiversity loss. Here, we show that plant diversity is positively correlated with ...

The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

Little is currently known about how climate modulates the relationship between plant diversity and soil organic carbon and the mechanisms involved.

The Complex Relationship Between Plant Diversity, Soil Carbon ...

Plant diversity plays a crucial role in shaping ecosystems, impacting everything from productivity to the storage of soil organic carbon ...

Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage - PNAS

Recent studies have shown that biodiversity increases soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in experimental grasslands. However, the effects of ...

Loss of plant biodiversity can reduce soil carbon sequestration in ...

The results, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that the soil carbon content increases with plant diversity in global ...

Effects of plant diversity on soil carbon in diverse ecosystems

Soil carbon may also strongly depend on plant diversity [36] [37] [38][39] . Carbon loss could increase dramatically if the relationship is on a similar scale ...

Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage

Despite evidence from experimental grasslands that plant diversity increases biomass production and soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, ...

Plant diversity drives soil carbon sequestration: evidence from 150 ...

Large-scale afforestation is considered a natural way to address climate challenges (e.g., the greenhouse effect).

Effects of plant diversity on soil carbon in diverse ecosystems: a ...

Despite an alarming rate of global plant diversity loss, uncertainties concerning the effects of plant diversity on SOC remain, because plant ...

Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the ... - Nature

The potential of plant diversity to influence soil carbon (C) cycling has been recognized, as soils are the biggest reservoir of terrestrial ...

Loss of plant biodiversity can reduce soil carbon sequestration in ...

Little was known so far about the effect of climate on the relationship between plant diversity and soil carbon and the mechanisms involved. Yet ...

Plant diversity enhances soil carbon retention - ScienceDaily

A new study shows that increasing plant diversity in agriculture can be used to improve the carbon sequestration potential of agricultural ...

Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage - Journals

These imply that plant diversity effects on soil C accumulation can be context-dependent and vary across ecosystem types, plot sizes, climatic ...

The effects of functional diversity and identity (acquisitive versus ...

Within the boreal biome, soil C stocks increased with functional diversity in warm climates, but decreased in cold climates. Our findings at the ...

Increased soil carbon storage through plant diversity strengthens ...

We found that higher plant diversity increased carbon and nitrogen storage in the topsoil since the establishment of the experiment. Stable ...

Response of soil carbon and plant diversity to grazing and ...

Importantly, SOC and plant species richness were both positively correlated with precipitation, but the magnitude of the response differed ...

Comparison of plant diversity-carbon storage relationships along ...

In addition, climate factors can indirectly affect plant biomass by regulating the species composition and structural attributes of a community ...