@article{fdi:010079792,
  title = {{E}vidence for {E}lton's diversity-invasibility hypothesis from belowground},
  author = {{Z}hang, {Z}. {J}. and {L}iu, {Y}. {J}. and {B}runel, {C}aroline and van {K}leunen, {M}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{S}ixty year ago, {C}harles {E}lton posed that species-rich communities should be more resistant to biological invasion. {S}till, little is known about which processes could drive the diversity-invasibility relationship. {H}ere we examined whether soil-microbe-mediated apparent competition on alien invaders is more negative when the soil originates from multiple native species. {W}e trained soils with five individually grown native species and used amplicon sequencing to analyze the resulting bacterial and fungal soil communities. {W}e mixed the soils to create trained soils from one, two or four native species. {W}e then grew four alien species separately on these differently trained soils. {I}n the soil-conditioning phase, the five native species built species-specific bacterial and fungal communities in their rhizospheres. {I}n the test phase, it did not matter for biomass of alien plants whether the soil had been trained by one or two native species. {H}owever, the alien species achieved 11.7% (95% {CI}: 3.7-20.1%) less aboveground biomass when grown on soils trained by four native species than on soils trained by two native species. {O}ur results revealed soil-microbes-mediated apparent competition as a mechanism underlying the negative relationship between diversity and invasibility.},
  keywords = {apparent competition ; diversity ; invasibility ; mutualists ; pathogens ; plant invasion ; plant-soil feedback ; soil legacy ; soil microbes ; soil mixture},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}cology},
  volume = {101},
  numero = {12},
  pages = {e03187 [10 ]},
  ISSN = {0012-9658},
  year = {2020},
  DOI = {10.1002/ecy.3187},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010079792},
}