Chunqiang Wei et al. found that #Plant species of higher #IntrinsicGrowthAbility suffered greater negative #Soil effects, plant traits such as intrinsic growth ability, other than #PhylogeneticRelatedness, could be reliable #Predictors for plant responses to #SoilBiota, the soil biota on average had greater negative impacts on the #ExoticSpecies, particularly the #PerennialSpecies, than on the native species.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac044
6/ more observations
2) when plants are in their happy zone ecologically- temps, moisture, etc-- and maybe the communities of #SoilBiota they live best with?? they can be very adaptable- spruce seedlings here appear on any soil left for a short time-clay, gravel, my wood ash pile, pieces of wood, stumps, etc- which is why I was comfortable plopping them into mostly decomposed wood waste/rotted leaves/sawdust etc (others have gone into clay, gravel mix or used houseplant soil etc)
