Understanding the role of environmental heterogeneity in species coexistence has typically focused on types of heterogeneity that are extrinsic to the community’s species composition. We provide novel detailed methods for creating soil heterogeneity treatments using soils subject to plant-soil feedback conditioning, or heterogeneity intrinsic to the community composition.
Brandt, A. J., del Pino, G. A., Burns, J. H. Experimental Protocol for Manipulating Plant-induced Soil Heterogeneity. J. Vis. Exp. (85), e51580, doi:10.3791/51580 (2014).