Soil Communities Promote Temporal Stability and Species Asynchrony in Experimental Grassland Communities

Over the past two decades many studies have demonstrated that plant species diversity promotes primary productivity and stability in grassland ecosystems. Additionally, soil community characteristics have also been shown to influence the productivity and composition of plant communities, yet little is known about whether soil communities also play a role in stabilizing the productivity of an ecosystem.Here we use microcosms to assess the effects...