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Jonathan R. De Long

Researcher at University of Manchester

Publications -  48
Citations -  2276

Jonathan R. De Long is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plant community & Ecosystem. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1144 citations. Previous affiliations of Jonathan R. De Long include Wageningen University and Research Centre & Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

Jens Kattge, +754 more
- 01 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: The extent of the trait data compiled in TRY is evaluated and emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness are analyzed to conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements.
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Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

Jonathan W. Leff, +13 more
- 09 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that grassland plant species form specific associations with soil community members and that information on plant species distributions can improve predictions of soil community composition, indicating that specific associations between plant species and complex soil communities are key determinants of biodiversity patterns in grassland soils.
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A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

Mark A. Bradford, +21 more
- 01 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: It is found that contrary to predictions from the hierarchical model, decomposer (microbial) biomass strongly regulates decomposition at regional scales, and the size of the microbial biomass dictates the absolute change in decomposition rates with changing climate variables.
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Fungal diversity regulates plant-soil feedbacks in temperate grassland

Marina Semchenko, +18 more
- 01 Nov 2018 - 
TL;DR: This study shows that plant species with resource-acquisitive traits, such as high shoot nitrogen concentrations and thin roots, attract diverse communities of putative fungal pathogens and specialist saprotrophs, and a lower diversity of mycorrhizal fungi, resulting in strong plant growth suppression on soil occupied by the same species.
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Why are plant–soil feedbacks so unpredictable, and what to do about it?

Jonathan R. De Long, +3 more
- 01 Jan 2019 - 
TL;DR: A synthetic framework to elucidate how abiotic and biotic drivers affect PSFs is presented and suggestions for improved experimental designs and scientific inference that will capture and elucidate the influence of above‐ and belowground drivers on PSFs are presented.