Environmental Effects on Taxonomic Turnover in Soil Fauna across Multiple Forest Ecosystems in East Asia. [PDF]
Insects, 2022 The large-scale spatial variation in and causes of biotic turnover of soil fauna remain poorly understood. Analyses were conducted based on published data from 14 independent sampling sites across five forest ecosystems in East Asia. Jaccard and Sørensen’
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GCB Bioenergy, 2022 Perennial grass energy crop production is necessary for the successful and sustainable expansion of bioenergy in North America. Numerous environmental advantages are associated with perennial grass cropping systems, including their potential to promote ...
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Microplastics negatively affect soil fauna but stimulate microbial activity: insights from a field-based microplastic addition experiment. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2020 Microplastics are recognized as an emerging contaminant worldwide. Although microplastics have been shown to strongly affect organisms in aquatic environments, less is known about whether and how microplastics can affect different taxa within a soil ...
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Climate and litter traits affect the response of litter decomposition to soil fauna. [PDF]
BMC Res Notes, 2023 Objectives Soil fauna plays a crucial role in contributing to litter breakdown, accelerating the decomposition rate and enhancing the biogeochemical cycle in terrestrial ecosystems.
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Soil Fauna Alter the Relationship Between Plant Litter Diversity and Microbial Communities in Mixed Litter Decomposition. [PDF]
Ecol EvolUnderstanding how litter diversity and soil fauna drive microbial communities is critical for revealing trophic cascades in decomposition processes. We conducted a 460‐day field decomposition experiment in a subtropical forest, placing litter mixtures of
Dou P, Lin D.
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A soil food web approach to integrate soil fauna into multitrophic biogeochemistry. [PDF]
Commun Earth EnvironSoil fauna is essential in mediating the formation and turnover of soil organic matter, the largest terrestrial pool of organic carbon, yet remains absent from nearly all existing biogeochemical conceptual frameworks.
Lejoly JDM, Mason-Jones K, Veen GFC.
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Yak (Bos grunniens) excreta further facilitate the positive effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition in alpine meadow ecosystems. [PDF]
Commun BiolThe influence of grazing activity, specifically excreta deposition, on the positive contributions of soil fauna to litter decomposition was not comprehensively examined.
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Enhancement of soil microbial community stability by earthworms and collembolans in soil from abandoned coal mine lands. [PDF]
Front MicrobiolSoil fauna play a critical role in the restoration of abandoned mining areas, uniquely contributing to soil formation, development, and the rehabilitation of degraded soils. This role is intricately linked with miwcrobial activity.
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Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2023 Soil fauna act as regulators of decomposition processes via their feeding activity, thereby playing an important role in regulating carbon cycling and sequestration.
Nicole Scheunemann, David J. Russell
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Urbanization has induced substantial changes in soil physicochemical characteristic, which plays an important role in regulating soil fauna biodiversity in forests and grasslands.
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