Pascal A. Niklaus

The paper shows that mutualistic fungi can increase disease risk by altering host competence, but host diversity alone does not affect epidemic outcomes.

This study shows that soybean breeding has reduced shade avoidance but recent cultivars are more susceptible to thrips under shade-inducing light conditions.

The paper shows that data leakage and measurement errors can falsely inflate the predictability of plant mixture overyielding from traits, highlighting the need for rigorous validation.

The paper shows that diverse ecosystems in North America are more productive and stable under drought, driven by complementarity among ecosystem types.

The paper investigates how landscape diversity affects vegetation productivity at the kilometer scale using satellite data and land cover analysis, finding a universal association between landscape diversity and productivity.

The paper shows that root allocation increases under combined above- and belowground competition in soybean, but not under belowground competition alone.

This study investigates how fungal and bacterial communities influence necromass formation and stability in soil, finding that complex microbial communities and fungal presence enhance SOC persistence.