- cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
- rdrr.io/github/Benja...?

The bigger, the better! But honestly, I just have no idea of American units 😅 You can download the poster here: koiosjerome.direct.quickconnect.to:5001/sharing/CxrG... and I am more than happy to chat about it anytime 😃😃😃

at FEMS Microbiology Ecology here: doi.org/10.1093/fems...

The study focuses on soil microbial communities. Benefits to the current crop are not presented in this study (see other studies from the experiment for this). Soils from plots with legume cover crops in the previous year increased AMF colonization in flax, suggesting benefits to following crops.

With Karoliina Huusko, @omsietio.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, Paula Thitz, Stephanie Gerin, @annaliisalaine.bsky.social, Annalea Lohila and @jheinons.bsky.social 6/6

Overall, diverse cover crops, particularly mixtures including legumes, sustained diverse and beneficial
fungal communities over winter, already after one
year of expeirment. Agricultural diversification using CCs may have positive impacts on the microbial communities. 5/6

Some highlights of many results
-vegetation and cover crop richness increased microbial biomass and microbial growth efficiency
-Cover crop richness increased AM fungal diversity while legumes suppressed fungal pathogens
-Legumes boosted next years crops association with beneficial AM fungi
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For her PhD project, Rashmi characterized #TWINWINS bulk soil microbial communities across seasons, and used additional experiments to assess decomposition and legacy effects on AM colonization in a consecutive crop. 3/5

#TWINWIN experiment is an agricultural biodiversity experiment, where the agricultural crop is undersown with cover crop species mixtures of varying species richness and functional composition to test if results from ecological biodiversity experiments can be applied to agricultural practices. 2/6

Oh no! You will spend the rest of your life on this mountain 🫣

I hope thyme is not on your species list 😅😜

You can double book it for your karma/CV: mentorship AND review.

Thanks Nameer! Maowei deserves those congratulations way more than I do! 😅

Despite having a smaller impact than plant species diversity, our findings show that a loss of arthropod or fungal consumers could destabilize plant communities. The small critter has important ecological roles, such contributing to ecological stability! Don't overlook it 🪲🍄🐛💚

Plant species richness increased biomass stability due to an increase in plant species asynchrony. Food web complexity alone did not impact community stability, but it further increased species asynchrony at high plant species richness.

Based on 14 years of plant biomass data from an experiment in which we manipulated plant species richness and presence of different consumer groups (insect herbivores, foliar fungal pathogens, soil oomycetes), we studied the joint impact of plant diversity and trophic complexity for stability.