Soil-microorganism-mediated invasional meltdown in plants

This is the data, codes and reports of the paper 'Soil-microorganism-mediated invasional meltdown in plants' by Zhijie Zhang, Yanjie Liu, Caroline Brunel and Mark van Kleunen, which was accepted in Nature Ecology and Evolution in 2020.<br>We experimentally tested whether and how a third plant species affected the competitive outcomes between alien and native plants through its soil legacy. We first conditioned soil with one of ten species (six natives and four aliens) or without plants. Then, we grew on these 11 soils, five aliens and five natives without competition, or with intra- or interspecific competition.<br>It is also deposited at GitHub (https://github.com/ecozhang/Invasional-meltdown).

本数据集涵盖张志杰、刘艳杰、Caroline Brunel与Mark van Kleunen于2020年被《自然-生态学与进化》（Nature Ecology and Evolution）收录的论文《土壤微生物介导的植物入侵崩溃（Soil-microorganism-mediated invasional meltdown）》的相关数据、代码及研究报告。本研究通过实验验证了第三种植物是否以及如何通过其土壤遗留效应，对外来植物与本土植物之间的竞争结果产生影响：研究人员首先利用10个物种（6个本土物种与4个外来物种）或无植物的方式对土壤进行培育处理；随后在这11种土壤上分别种植5种外来植物与5种本土植物，并设置无竞争、种内竞争或种间竞争三种处理模式。本数据集已上传至GitHub平台（https://github.com/ecozhang/Invasional-meltdown）。