Spatiotemporal dynamics of plant-soil-microbe interactions
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Understanding how communities assemble across space and time remains a fundamental ecological question. In this dissertation, I investigate how plants, soil, and microbes interact to shape the outcome of aboveground and belowground communities. To understand temporal dimensions of microbially mediated plant-soil feedback, I quantified how the strength of conspecific and heterospecific feedback changes over time in greenhouse experiments. Using molecular sequencing, I show that plant-associated microbial communities changes within a plant generation, depending on the initial microbial source. I then show that microbial community turnover between generations affects the coexistence outcomes of plant communities driven by natural gaps in growing seasons and litter decomposition. In the spatial dimension, I use spatially-explicit field data to show how plant and microbial community distribution varies in relation to soil nutrients. Using observations from forest dynamics plots, I show that mycorrhizal association drives the aggregation patterns of trees across a gradient of soil fertility, interacting with the dispersal mode of different species and age structure within each species. All together, my dissertation explores various temporal and spatial structures of plant--soil--microbe interactions and their role in shaping species diversity above- and belowground.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ou, Suzanne Xianran |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Daily, Gretchen |
| Degree supervisor | Fukami, Tadashi |
| Thesis advisor | Daily, Gretchen |
| Thesis advisor | Fukami, Tadashi |
| Thesis advisor | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Degree committee member | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Biology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Suzanne Xianran Ou. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Biology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sv554xp5716 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Suzanne Xianran Ou
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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