Mechanisms Controlling the Plant Diversity Effect on Soil Microbial Community Composition and Soil Microbial Diversity

Perla Griselle Mellado Vázquez1, Markus Lange1, Robert Griffiths2, Ashish Anil Malik2, Janneke Ravenek3, Tanja Strecker4, Nico Eisenhauer5 and Gerd Gleixner6, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (2)Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, (3)Inst. for Water and Wetland Research, AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands, (4)Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, (5)German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany, (6)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany