Extant species are more responsive than locally extinct species to warming effects on soil communities

Plant-soil feedback: the next generation

“…Nevertheless, inconsistent findings between Bennett et al (2022) and Bennett et al (2017) -possibly due to differences in methods such as the feedback calculation method, plant material used and duration of the greenhouse study -reaffirm our caveat that more studies are required for robust future predictions. By contrast, an experiment in Michigan, United States of America (USA), by Zettlemoyer and Cortijo-Robles (2022), investigating the influence of climate warming on plant-soil feedback to explain local plant species loss within a tallgrass prairie, showed that the examined plant-soil feedback effects were independent of a 3 °C increase in temperature and unconnected to local plant extinctions. The observation that plantsoil feedback tended to be independent of temperature shifts was consistent with previous findings (e.g., van Grunsven et al 2010;Beals et al 2020).…”