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Linking agricultural diversification practices, soil arthropod communities and soil health
Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 60, Issue 9, Page 1952-1963, September 2023., 2023 Soil arthropods respond to agricultural diversification and can be used as bioindicators to assess the effects of diversification on soil health. Below‐ground arthropod communities are structured by crop type, suggesting that planting specific crops may promote soil arthropods and their services. We showed that incorporating winter pea and forage crops
Dane C. Elmquist +3 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 13, Page 3497-3512, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Despite being the most important source of liquid freshwater on the planet, groundwater is severely threatened by climate change, agriculture, or industrial mining. It is thus extensively monitored for pollutants and declines in quantity. The organisms living in groundwater, however, are rarely the target of surveillance programmes and little ...
Marjorie Couton +4 more
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Ecological Applications, Volume 33, Issue 4, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Urban‐induced habitat conversion drastically changes soil life in a variety of ways. Soil sealing, human disturbance, habitat fragmentation, industrial and vehicular pollution are the main causes of urban soil degradation. Soil arthropods, as one of the most abundant and diverse group of soil fauna, are involved in many soil processes that are
Zsolt Tóth +2 more
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Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities
Ecology Letters, Volume 26, Issue 5, Page 742-753, May 2023., 2023 Our study quantifies the importance of litter vs. living root resources for soil animals across 30 taxonomic groups after conversion of rainforest into monoculture plantations. The results suggest that roots are of similar importance to litter for the soil animal food web, with root trenching effects being stronger in soil than in litter and litter ...
Zheng Zhou +5 more
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Prof. Josef Rusek (1938 – 2022)
Soil Organisms, 2022 Professor Josef Rusek, soil zoologist, ecologist, apterygotologist and university lecturer, died on January 13, 2022, aged 83 years. He has indelibly inscribed himself in the memory of many Czech and international zoologists and entomologists ...
Karel Tajovský +4 more
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ZooKeys, 2014 Proturan collections from Magadan Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, and Sakhalin Oblast are reported here. Twenty-five species are found of which 13 species are new records for Russian Far East which enrich the knowledge of Protura known for this ...
Yun Bu, Mikhail B Potapov, Wen Ying Yin
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Exceptional endemicity of Aotearoa New Zealand biota shows how taxa dispersal traits, but not phylogeny, correlate with global species richness. [PDF]
J R Soc N ZABSTRACT Species’ with more limited dispersal and consequently less gene flow are more likely to form new spatially segregated species and thus contribute disproportionally to endemic biota and global species richness. Aotearoa New Zealand has exceptional endemicity, with 52% of its 54,000 named species endemic, including 32%, 39% and 68% for ...
Costello MJ.
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Species Assemblage and Biogeography of Japanese Protura (Hexapoda) in Forest Soils
Diversity, 2012 The distribution and species assembly of Japanese Protura collected from forest soils were examined using published databases and statistical analysis. We used records from 3110 sites where 71 taxa were found.
Minori Hashimoto +4 more
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Vindobonella leopoldina gen. n., sp. n. from Austria (Protura: Acerentomidae s. l.)
European Journal of Entomology, 2001 A new genus, Vindobonella gen. n. (Acerentomidae s. l.), and a new species, Vindobonella leopoldina sp. n., are described from Vienna. The new genus belongs to a group characterized by a reduced labial palp and a non-modified striate band on abdominal ...
Andrzej SZEPTYCKI, Erhard CHRISTIAN
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Arthropod diversity in Iran: Subphylum Hexapoda Latreille, 1825, Basal Hexapod Taxa [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and SystematicsA comprehensive review of the literature and database records on the five lineages of basal hexapods of Iran was conducted to summarise current knowledge of their diversity and distribution within the country.
Masoumeh Shayanmehr +17 more
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