Soil fungal influence on the diversity-invasibility relationship depends on interacting species identities

Elton’s diversity-invasibility hypothesis, which proposes that diverse communities should be more resistant to biological invasions, has been the focus of much attention. However, little is known about how soil microbes recruited by native plants influence the vulnerability of forest ecosystems to invasion by exotic plants. Here, we present a two-part plant–soil feedback experiment (Part A, diversity effect; Part B, soil inoculation) to examine the effects of soil microorganisms associated with native plant species at different diversity levels on community invasibility of temperate forests, using two invasive plants, Rhus typhina and Phytolacca americana, as test species. Aboveground plant growth and biomass allocation differed significantly between the two invasive plants under simulated diversity, with negative effects on P. americana and positive effects on R. typhina. Both the diversity effects and soil inoculation experiments showed that the growth of P. americana was inhibited, w..., We utilized a linear mixed model, implemented using the ‘lme4’ package (Bates et al., 2015) in R 4.0.5 (R Core Team, 2021), to analyze the effects of diversity on the growth of two invasive plant species.
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This data is about the response of plant traits of two invasive plants to plant diversity, soil treatment, and their interactions.
 
, # Data from: Soil fungal influence on the diversity-invasibility relationship depends on interacting species identities

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.w0vt4b8z2](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.w0vt4b8z2)

## Description of the data and file structure

DATA.README

* This data is about the response of plant traits of two invasive plants to plant diversity, soil treatment and their interactions.
* The data mainly includes the biomass and leaf area (specific leaf area) of the plant, PA represents *Phytolacca americana*, and RT represents *Rhus typhina*.
* The file Diversity_PA_RT_LS_biomass.csv is the biomass dataset, and Diversity_PA_RT_LS_ye.csv is the dataset for leaf area and specific leaf area.

Diversity_PA_RT_LS_biomass.csv

* *id*: Sample
* *Diversity*: The diversity level, with three treatment levels: 1, 3 and 6
* *Soil_treatments*: Soil treatment type, where 1 denotes lived soil and 2 denotes sterilized soil
* *Community*: The 27 soil mixture types
* *Test_plant*: The two test plant...,