Department of Environmental Studies, Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
AoB Plants. 2015 May 15;7:plv052. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plv052.
Soil microbial communities are one of the multiple factors that facilitate or resist plant invasion. Regional and biogeographic studies help to determine how soil communities and the processes mediated by soil microbes are linked to other mechanisms of invasion. Both the success of plant invasions and their impacts are profoundly influenced by a wide range of soil communities and the soil processes mediated by them. With an aim to better understand the mechanisms responsible for the soil community-driven routes, a special issue of AoB PLANTS was conceived. I hope that the range of papers included in the special issue will reveal some of the complexities in soil community-mediated plant invasion.
土壤微生物群落是促进或抑制植物入侵的多种因素之一。区域和生物地理研究有助于确定土壤群落以及土壤微生物介导的过程与入侵的其他机制之间的联系。植物入侵的成功及其影响都受到广泛的土壤群落和土壤微生物介导的过程的深刻影响。为了更好地了解土壤群落驱动途径的机制，专门策划了 AoB PLANTS 的一个特刊。我希望特刊中包含的一系列论文将揭示土壤群落介导的植物入侵中的一些复杂性。
