Publications by authors named "N A Soudzilovskaia"
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- Understanding how plant communities react to global changes is essential for predicting future ecosystem dynamics.
- The CoRRE Trait Data includes information on 17 plant traits for 4,079 vascular plant species from grassland experiments worldwide.
- This dataset can help researchers explore the effects of global change on diverse plant populations and ecosystems.
An increasing number of studies of above-belowground interactions provide a fundamental basis for our understanding of the coexistence between plant and soil communities. However, we lack empirical evidence to understand the directionality of drivers of plant and soil communities under natural conditions: 'Are soil microorganisms driving plant community functioning or do they adapt to the plant community?' In a field experiment in an early successional dune ecosystem, we manipulated soil communities by adding living (i.e.
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- Growing crops on marginal lands could help address land pressure in Europe, but these crops face challenges like drought and pathogens due to poor soil conditions.
- The study explored the effects of Silicon (Si) foliar fertilization on spring barley grown under simulated future climate conditions, testing its impact on crop yield and ecosystem processes.
- Results showed no significant benefits of Si treatment on biomass production or water retention, but there was a notable increase in carbon sequestration under drier conditions, suggesting Si may not be a robust solution for improving crop resilience on nutrient-poor, sandy soils.
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- The study analyzes soil fungal diversity globally by examining over 4,000 topsoil samples from various ecosystems, revealing how different environmental factors influence fungal communities.
- It demonstrates the effects of temperature and precipitation on local species richness (alpha diversity) and how these factors contribute to variations in fungal composition and evolutionary relationships (beta and phylogenetic diversity).
- The research integrates fungal diversity into global biodiversity frameworks, providing maps and insights that can aid in conservation efforts and ecological studies worldwide.
Climate change is leading to species redistributions. In the tundra biome, shrubs are generally expanding, but not all tundra shrub species will benefit from warming. Winner and loser species, and the characteristics that may determine success or failure, have not yet been fully identified.
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