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Fungal Energy Channelling Sustains Soil Animal Communities Across Forest Types and Regions. [PDF]

Ecol Lett
We developed a novel framework combining stable isotope analysis of essential amino acids and energy fluxes to quantify basal resource contributions and trophic positions of meso‐ and macrofauna detritivores (Collembola, Oribatida, Diplopoda, Isopoda, Lumbricidae) and predators (Mesostigmata, Chilopoda) in 48 forest sites of different management ...
Junggebauer A, Jüds M, Klarner B, Dyckmans J, Pollierer MM, Scheu S.   +5 more
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A comparative analysis of spider prey spectra analyzed through the next-generation sequencing of individual and mixed DNA samples. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2021
Individual DNA sample sequencing obtains the accurate prey spectrum of spiders. Mixed DNA sample sequencing underestimates the prey spectrum of spiders. Individual and mixed DNA sample sequencing obtains almost the same relative abundance of prey sequences of spiders.
Yang T, Song X, Xu X, Zhou C, Shi A.
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Niche dimensions in soil oribatid mite community assembly under native and introduced tree species. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Using functional traits, our study showed that oribatid mite communities were structured by both filtering and partitioning processes. Coexisting species differed more in resource‐related (α‐niche) traits than in morphological (β‐niche) traits, and were driven more by tree species identity (beech vs. conifer) than by forest type (monoculture vs.
Noske JE, Lu JZ, Schaefer I, Maraun M, Scheu S, Chen TW.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Parthenogenetic vs. sexual reproduction in oribatid mite communities. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2019
We compiled data on oribatid mite communities from different habitats across biomes. Based on the compiled dataset, we analyzed if the percentage of parthenogenetic species and the percentage of individuals of parthenogenetic species are related to total oribatid mite density, species number, and potentially other driving factors of the reproductive ...
Maraun M, Caruso T, Hense J, Lehmitz R, Mumladze L, Murvanidze M, Nae I, Schulz J, Seniczak A, Scheu S.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Repeated convergent evolution of parthenogenesis in Acariformes (Acari). [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2021
We investigated the radiation of Acariformes and reconstructed their ancestral mode of reproduction using 18S rDNA. We found that (a) Acariformes as well as Oribatida evolved from a sexual ancestor, (b) species‐rich parthenogenetic taxa radiated independently at least four times in Acariformes, (c) parthenogenesis additionally evolved frequently in ...
Pachl P, Uusitalo M, Scheu S, Schaefer I, Maraun M.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A new species of Amboroppia (Acari, Oribatida, Oppiidae) from the Peruvian Andes, with remarks on generic diagnosis

Persian Journal of Acarology, 2022
A new species of the neotropical genus Amboroppia (Oribatida, Oppiidae), A. andensis sp. nov. is described, based on adults collected from upper soil and leaf litter in primary mountain forest in the Andes, Central Peru.
Sergey G. Ermilov, Luis Subias, Umukusum Shtanchaeva, Stefan Friedrich   +3 more
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Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities

Oikos, Volume 2023, Issue 2, February 2023., 2023
The relationship between species' body masses and densities is strongly conserved around a three‐quarter power law when pooling data across communities. However, studies of local within‐community relationships have revealed major deviations from this general pattern, which has profound implications for their stability and functioning.
Ana Carolina Antunes, Benoit Gauzens, Ulrich Brose, Anton M. Potapov, Malte Jochum, Luca Santini, Nico Eisenhauer, Olga Ferlian, Simone Cesarz, Stefan Scheu, Myriam R. Hirt   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

Biological Reviews, Volume 97, Issue 3, Page 1057-1117, June 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity and, ultimately, human nutrition. Soil ecologists often operate with functional groups to infer the effects of individual taxa on ecosystem functions and services ...
Anton M. Potapov, Frédéric Beaulieu, Klaus Birkhofer, Sarah L. Bluhm, Maxim I. Degtyarev, Miloslav Devetter, Anton A. Goncharov, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Bernhard Klarner, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Dana F. Liebke, Mark Maraun, Rory J. Mc Donnell, Melanie M. Pollierer, Ina Schaefer, Julia Shrubovych, Irina I. Semenyuk, Alberto Sendra, Jiri Tuma, Michala Tůmová, Anna B. Vassilieva, Ting‐Wen Chen, Stefan Geisen, Olaf Schmidt, Alexei V. Tiunov, Stefan Scheu   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

New records of oribatid mites from Michoacán state, Mexico

Entomological Communications, 2021
Eleven species of oribatid mites are reported from Michoacán state, Mexico for the first time: Ceratozetidae: unidentified species of Adoribatella Woolley, 1967; Damaeidae: Belbodamaeus (Lanibelba) palaciosi (Iglesias & Guzmán, 2012);  Eremobelbidae ...
Harol Revelo-Tobar, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas, Armando Equihua-Martinez, Jorge Valdez-Carrasco   +3 more
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Oribatid mites in agricultural and natural soils: a case study of vertical distribution

Entomological Communications, 2022
The vertical distribution of oribatid mites was evaluated in a natural soil (pine-oak forest) in the municipality of San Juan Nuevo and an agricultural soil (avocado crop) in the municipality of Uruapan in Michoacán, Mexico.  Samples were taken in seven
Harol Revelo-Tobar, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas, Armando Equihua-Martínez, Jorge Valdez-Carrasco   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source