Evaluating the role of biotic and chemical components of plant-soil feedback of primary successional plants

Kuťáková, Eliška; Mészárošová, Lenka; Baldrián, Petr; Münzbergová, Zuzana

doi:10.1007/s00374-019-01425-z

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“…Negative legacy effects of willow on spruce and redcedar in unamended reclamation materials indicate that the legacy mechanism, potentially accumulation of generalist pathogens or allelopathy, can occur irrespective of soil developmental phase. Our willow findings contrast with Kuťáková et al (2020) and Castle et al (2016), who found early successional plants to create neutral to positive legacies for co‐occurring plants in primary successional soils due to improvements in soil abiotic conditions (e.g., increasing nutrient levels). While our study focused on soil microbes and controlled for soil nutrient changes, results of the foliar nutrient covariate indicate that abiotic soil nutrient improvements may have occurred but did not shift net legacy effects.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our results suggest that where mycorrhizal fungi are a dominant mechanism for biotic legacies, negative legacy effects may be reduced or eliminated in barren primary successional soils (i.e., there is no inoculum to be "lost"), but positive legacies can be initiated despite the low abundance of mycorrhizal fungal propagules. This is consistent with studies in gravel quarry soils (Kuťáková et al, 2020) and areas impacted by volcanic eruptions (Nara, 2006;Seeds & Bishop, 2009) that have shown accumulation of microbial mutualists to support initial plant establishment in primary succession.…”

Section: Legacy Effects Occur In Primary Successional Soilssupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Allelopathy effects on next‐stage successional plant species may be a consequence of willow initiating defense responses to pathogen accumulation and/or an adaptation to delay willow's replacement in succession. We suspect that the negative legacy effects associated with willow may be plant species‐specific, especially if allelopathy is occurring, as other studies have found early successional plants to have neutral to positive legacies effects on co‐occurring plant species (Kuťáková et al, 2020; van de Voorde et al, 2011). This highlights the complexity of the interacting biotic and abiotic properties that generate soil legacies, and the potential for species‐specific inconsistencies with general ecological trends.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Limited research has been conducted to understand if the soil legacy effects associated with plant nutrient acquisition type and successional stage described above are consistent under primary successional conditions, including mine reclamation settings (Zhu et al, 2022), and how the initial microbial community influences plant community assembly. Given the severely nutrient-liming conditions in primary succession, simply growing plants in these barren soils can have positive legacies due to abiotic improvements in the soil, particularly when N-fixing plants are present (Castle et al, 2016;Kuťáková et al, 2020;Png et al, 2019). In terms of biological legacies, neutral to negative biological legacies have been found for AM plants in early successional post-glaciation soils (Castle et al, 2016) and foredunes (van der Putten et al, 1993), while Kuťáková et al (2020) found soil fungi to potentially be positively linked to initial plant establishment in post-mining soils, and Seeds and Bishop (2009) found positive legacies associated with N-fixing bacteria in an area impacted by a volcanic eruption.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Given the severely nutrient-liming conditions in primary succession, simply growing plants in these barren soils can have positive legacies due to abiotic improvements in the soil, particularly when N-fixing plants are present (Castle et al, 2016;Kuťáková et al, 2020;Png et al, 2019). In terms of biological legacies, neutral to negative biological legacies have been found for AM plants in early successional post-glaciation soils (Castle et al, 2016) and foredunes (van der Putten et al, 1993), while Kuťáková et al (2020) found soil fungi to potentially be positively linked to initial plant establishment in post-mining soils, and Seeds and Bishop (2009) found positive legacies associated with N-fixing bacteria in an area impacted by a volcanic eruption. These results suggest that while biological legacies in primary successional soils may be offset by abiotic legacies or weaker due to low abundances of soil organisms and low nutrient availability, they may be sufficiently present to influence plant community assembly.…”

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Soil microbial legacies influence plant survival and growth in mine reclamation

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Guichon

Anglin

et al. 2022

Ecology and Evolution

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Plants alter soil biological communities, generating ecosystem legacies that affect the performance of successive plants, influencing plant community assembly and successional trajectories. Yet, our understanding of how microbe‐mediated soil legacies influence plant establishment is limited for primary successional systems and forest ecosystems, particularly for ectomycorrhizal plants. In a two‐phase greenhouse experiment using primary successional mine reclamation materials with or without forest soil additions, we conditioned soil with an early successional shrub with low mycorrhizal dependence (willow, Salix scouleriana) and a later‐successional ectomycorrhizal conifer (spruce, Picea engelmannii × glauca). The same plant species and later‐successional plants (spruce and/or redcedar, Thuja plicata, a mid‐ to late‐successional arbuscular mycorrhizal conifer) were grown as legacy‐phase seedlings in conditioned soils and unconditioned control soils. Legacy effects were evaluated based on seedling survival and biomass, and the abundance and diversity of root fungal symbionts and pathogens. We found negative intraspecific (same‐species) soil legacies for willow associated with pathogen accumulation, but neutral to positive intraspecific legacies in spruce associated with increased mycorrhizal fungal colonization and diversity. Our findings support research showing that soil legacy effects vary with plant nutrient acquisition strategy, with plants with low mycorrhizal dependence experiencing negative feedbacks and ectomycorrhizal plants experiencing positive feedbacks. Soil legacy effects of willow on next‐stage successional species (spruce and redcedar) were negative, potentially due to allelopathy, while ectomycorrhizal spruce had neutral to negative legacy effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal redcedar, likely due to the trees not associating with compatible mycorrhizae. Thus, positive biological legacies may be limited to scenarios where mycorrhizal‐dependent plants grow in soil containing legacies of compatible mycorrhizae. We found that soil legacies influenced plant performance in mine reclamation materials with and without forest soil additions, indicating that initial restoration actions may potentially exert long‐term effects on plant community composition, even in primary successional soils with low microbial activity.

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

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Section: Legacy Effects Occur In Primary Successional Soilssupporting

confidence: 91%

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confidence: 94%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Soil microbial legacies influence plant survival and growth in mine reclamation

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Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks

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Plant genus is a better predictor of plant effects on soil biotic and abiotic properties than plant invasion status

Hanzelková,

Florianová,

Cajthaml

et al. 2023

Biol Invasions

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Increasing evidence suggests that plant invasions are promoted by altered plant-soil interactions. However, we still lack studies exploring differences in the effects of invasive and native species on soil properties, and particularly studies that would control for species phylogeny and abundance. Here, we grew seven congeneric pairs of invasive and native species with comparable cover in the studied region in a 12-weeks garden experiment. We analysed the amount of nutrients, pH and composition and amount of soil biota in soils cultivated by each species and in uncultivated soil. Then we used ratios of the soil characteristics in cultivated and uncultivated soil to express species effects on the soil.Invasive species used more phosphorus from the soil and supported mycorrhizal communities with higher potential to colonize plant roots than native species, but did not differ in any other soil properties. In contrast, we found strong differences among plant genera and genera from the same families tended to cluster together in their effects on the soil. We also found many interactions of genera and invasion status. Effects of plants on the soil were also largely determined by plant biomass production independent of species identity.The results suggest that invasive and native species differ only in a few general effects on the soil and that the differences among native and invasive species are largely genus speci c. They also indicated that species phylogenetic identity and individual plant biomass should be considered in future studies of the effect of plants on the soil.

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Evaluating the role of biotic and chemical components of plant-soil feedback of primary successional plants

Cited by 20 publications

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Soil microbial legacies influence plant survival and growth in mine reclamation

Soil microbial legacies influence plant survival and growth in mine reclamation

Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks

Plant genus is a better predictor of plant effects on soil biotic and abiotic properties than plant invasion status

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