Stephan König

TL;DR: It is shown that plant diversity effects dampen with increasing trophic level and degree of omnivory, and the results suggest that plant Diversity has strong bottom-up effects on multitrophic interaction networks, with particularly strong effects on lower trophIC levels.

TL;DR: Root colonization and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were analyzed in Veronica rechingeri growing in heavy metal and non-polluted soils of the Anguran Zn and Pb mining region (Iran) and phylogenetic analyses revealed seven different AMF sequence types all within the genus Glomus.

TL;DR: Plant functional and phylogenetic diversity were generally better predictors of soil biota than the traditionally used species or functional group richness and provided empirical support for the idea that the diversity of plant functional traits and the Diversity of evolutionary lineages in a community are important for maintaining higher abundances and diversity of soil communities.

TL;DR: The results show that environmental variables hierarchically shape AMF communities and that the sequence type spectrum is strongly affected by previous land use and disturbance, which appears to favor disturbance-tolerant members of the genus Glomus.

TL;DR: Remarkably, there is no evidence for interactive effects of earthworms and AMF on the performance of the plant species studied, which suggests that interactions between earthwormsand AMF likely are of minor importance.