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Temperate Forest Floors: Ecosystem Hubs in Transition? [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
The forest floor (FF) is a key component of carbon, nutrient, and water cycling and represents the most biologically active part of forest soils. Despite its importance, its response to environmental change and forest management remains insufficiently studied.
Lang F, Prietzel J, Hagedorn F, Kaiser K, Schulz S, Mayer M, Vesterdal L, Bauhus J, Bergmann M, Bibinger S, Bidartondo MI, Chen JO, de Jong P, Doan TH, Haberstroh S, Hahn J, Hartmann P, Khokon AM, Kohler M, Suz LM, Meier IC, Neumann R, Paulsen H, Puhlmann H, Schack-Kirchner H, Scheu S, Schilling L, Schleppi P, Schloter M, Schwärzel K, Stutz KP, Villalba G, Wannenmacher M, Weiler M, Wellbrock N, Werner C, Niederberger J.   +36 more
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Integrating Megabarcoding and Metabarcoding to Unlock Diversity and Distribution Data Shortfalls in Dark Taxa. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour
ABSTRACT Persistent biodiversity data shortfalls undermine our capacity to detect species, map their distributions and characterize their spatial genetic structure, limiting robust biogeographic analyses and the development of effective conservation strategies.
Santos-Perdomo I, Salces-Castellano A, Moraza ML, Mateos E, Muñoz-Barrera A, González-Montelongo R, Suárez D, Vega-Pita N, Falcón-López L, Lorenzo-Salazar JM, Flores C, Arribas P, Andújar C.   +12 more
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Litterfall, litter decomposition, soil macrofauna, and nutrient contents in rubber monoculture and rubber-based agroforestry plantations [PDF]

Forest and Society, 2018
This study is a comparison of the litterfall, litter decomposition, soil macrofauna, and nutrient contents in rubber monoculture and rubber-based agroforestry plantations. The three intra-couple differences examined are rubber with pakliang (RP) compared
Uraiwan Tongkaemkaew, J. Sukkul, Narathorn Sumkhan, Phantip Panklang, Alain Brauman, Roslan Ismail   +5 more
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The Impact of Root-Derived Resources on Forest Soil Invertebrates Depends on Body Size and Trophic Position

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021
Forest soil food webs have been assumed to be fueled substantially by root-derived resources. However, until today the flux of root-derived resources into soil animals has been investigated virtually exclusively using isotope labeling experiments ...
Sarah L. Bluhm, Bernhard Eitzinger, Christian Bluhm, Olga Ferlian, Kerstin Heidemann, Marcel Ciobanu, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu, Stefan Scheu   +8 more
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The structure of salt marsh soil mesofauna food webs - The prevalence of disturbance.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Mesofauna taxa fill key trophic positions in soil food webs, even in terrestrial-marine boundary habitats characterized by frequent natural disturbances. Salt marshes represent such boundary habitats, characterized by frequent inundations increasing from
Kristin Haynert, Mirijam Kiggen, Bernhard Klarner, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu   +4 more
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Structure and diversity of ground mesofauna inUlmus and Populus consortia in the industrial areas of mining and smelting complex of krivyi rig basin

Vìsnik Dnìpropetrovsʹkogo Unìversitetu: Serìâ Bìologìâ, Ekologìâ, 2010
The structure and biological diversity of ground mesofauna on a consortium level of organisation of ecosystems are considered. Indicators of structural organisation and biodiversity of ground mesofauna were analised in Ulmus and Populus consortia in the ...
V. V. Kachinskaya
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Effects of Natural Land Cover, Anthropogenic Disturbance, Space, and Climate on Oribatid Mite Communities in Canada’s Oil Sands Region

Diversity, 2023
Soil contains a diverse fauna and microflora that are vital for maintaining healthy soils and their various ecosystem services. Oribatid mites are typically highly abundant arthropods in the soil and are used as indicators for environmental monitoring ...
Lisa M. Lumley, Ermias T. Azeria, Victoria A. Giacobbo, Tyler P. Cobb   +3 more
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Assessment of the State of Soil’s Microbial Community in Condition of Intensive Influence of Pollutants

Ekológia (Bratislava), 2021
This paper presents the study of toxicological state of the soil. It shows ecological and microbiological properties of the soil mantle in the areas of technological environmental impact and evaluates changes in the number of soil microorganisms as a ...
Stepanova Lydia Pavlovna, Pisareva Aza Valerievna, Raskatov Vyacheslav Andreevich   +2 more
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Photovoltaic power stations: an opportunity to promote European semi-natural grasslands?

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
European semi-natural grasslands are particularly species-rich and provide many ecosystem services but depend on extensive land management. Today, these ecosystems are highly threatened by land abandonment, land use intensification and habitat ...
Quentin Lambert, Armin Bischoff, Morgane Enea, Morgane Enea, Raphael Gros   +4 more
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Diversity of Soil Gamasine Mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina) in an Area of Natural Vegetation and Cultivated Areas of the Cerrado Biome in Northern Brazil

Diversity, 2020
The Brazilian Cerrado biome has undergone major changes, with the incorporation of new areas for agricultural production. While this can certainly provide for the worldwide growing need for agricultural products, especially food, care should be taken to ...
Emiliano Brandão de Azevedo, Letícia Henrique Azevedo, Grazielle Furtado Moreira, Fábio Araújo dos Santos, Marcos Alberto Francisco de Carvalho, Renato de Almeida Sarmento, Raphael de Campos Castilho   +6 more
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