Rutger Wilschut
My research in the Ecology group focused on 'plant-soil feedbacks', the soil-mediated interactions between subsequent generations of plant individuals.
For my first line of research, I set up large greenhouse experiments, in which I examined how 1) plant life history affects the strength of plant-soil feedbacks among individuals of different plant species and 2) how the diversity of plant communities affects future plant performance in the same soil. I complemented these greenhouse experiments with root trait analyses and molecular examinations of soil communities in order to understand the drivers of plant-soil feedback variation.
My second line of research focused on global change impacts on plant-soil interactions, targeting the questions how increasing temperatures and drought alter interactions between plants and soil biota, and how these changing interactions may affect plant community composition.
For further information, please visit my website: www.rutgerwilschut.com
Publications
Wilschut RA, Hume BCC, Mamonova E & van Kleunen M (2023) Plant-soil feedback effects on conspecific and heterospecific successors of annual and perennial Central European grassland plants are correlated. Nature Plants 9:1057-1066 (DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01433-w)
Speißer B, Wilschut RA & van Kleunen M (2022) Number of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities. Nature Communications 13:7811 (DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-35473-1)
Gao L, Wei CQ, He YF, Tang XF, Chen W, Xu H, Wu YQ, Wilschut RA & Lu XM (2022) Aboveground herbivory can promote exotic plant invasion through intra- and interspecific aboveground-belowground interactions. New Phytologist 237:2347-2359 (DOI: 10.1111 /nph.18520 )
Wilschut RA, De Long JR, Geisen S, Hannula ES, Quist CW, Snoek B, Steinauer K, Wubs ERJ, Yang Q & Thakur MP (2022) Combined effects of warming and drought on plant biomass depend on plant woodiness and community type: a meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20221178 (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1178 )
Zhang ZY, Wan H, Ding F, Wilschut RA, Jia ZJ, Zhang XK, Zhang D, Rasmann S, Sánchez-Moreno S & Li BX (2022) Belowground plant inputs exert higher metabolic activities and carbon use efficiency of soil nematodes than aboveground inputs. Geoderma 420:115883 (DOI:10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115883)
Buchenau N, van Kleunen M & Wilschut RA (2022) Direct and legacy-mediated drought effects on plant performance are species-specific and depend on soil community composition. Oikos 2022:e08959. (DOI: 10.1111/oik.08959)
Thakur MP, van der Putten WH, Wilschut RA, Veen GF, Kardol P, van Ruijven J, Allan E, Roscher C, van Kleunen M & Bezemer M (2021) Plant-soil feedbacks and temporal dynamics of plant diversity-productivity relationships. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36:651-661.(DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.03.011)
Koorem K, Wilschut RA, Weser C & van der Putten WH (2021) Disentangling nematode and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community effect on the growth of range-expanding Centaurea stoebe in original and new range soil. Plant and Soil 466:207-221 (DOI: 10.1007/s11104-021-05020-w)
Wilschut RA & van Kleunen M (2021) Drought alters plant-soil feedbacks on biomass allocation but not on plant performance. Plant and Soil 462:285-296 (DOI: 10.1007/s11104-021-04861-9)
Wilschut, RA & Geisen S (2021) Nematodes as drivers of plant performance in natural systems. Trends in Plant Science 26:237-247. (DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.10.006)
Wilschut RA, Magnée KJH, Geisen S, van der Putten WH & Kostenko O (2020) Plant population and soil origin effects on rhizosphere nematode community composition of a range-expanding plant species and a native congener. Oecologia 194:237-250. (DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04749-y)
Koorem K, Snoek BL, Bloem J, Geisen S, Kostenko O, Manrubia M, Ramirez, KS, Weser C, Wilschut RA & van der Putten WH (2020) Community-level interactions between plants and soil biota during range expansion. Journal of Ecology 108:1860-1873. (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13409)
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(update: 17.02.2023)