Shortname:
TreeDì_P8C
Name:
P8C: Biodiversity in various trophic leaves of the soil micro-food web and its linkage with ecosystem multifunctionality
Description:
The functional dissimilarity of species is hypothesised to determine the positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.However, functional dissimilarity effects might be context-dependentand strongest in complex environments (e.g. high resource complexity), where dissimilar species are able to occupy different niches.Thus, studying the effects of functional dissimilarity of interacting trees in neighbourhoods of different diversity on the functional diversity and biomass of soil organisms may provide a generalisable framework to link biodiversity to ecosystem functions across above-belowground ecosystem compartments.
Objectives:
- To identify the functional diversity of soil microorganisms involved in nitrogen cycling processes
- To link microbial functional diversity with corresponding ecosystem functioning by measuring soil extracellular enzyme activities and ecosystem process rates
- To determine the response of microbial functional gene diversity and corresponding ecosystem functioning to the functional dissimilarity of the local tree neighbourhood
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2024-11-26
Updated at:
2024-11-26
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