Improved methods for quantifying soil invertebrates during ecotoxicological tests: Chill comas and anesthetics [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Soil invertebrate ecotoxicological tests are important when making informed site-management decisions. However, traditional tests are time-consuming and require quantification of high numbers of soil invertebrates burrowed beneath the surface of soil.
Adrian Pang +3 more
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Soil invertebrates of coniferous forests along a gradient of air pollution (Komi Republic) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 The role of soil invertebrates in the cycle of substances, soil-forming processes and the provision of ecosystem services is undeniable. Therefore, soil invertebrates are valuable in bioindication studies.
Alla Kolesnikova +3 more
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The impact of restoration methods for Solidago-invaded land on soil invertebrates [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The belowground community structure of soil biota depends on plant composition and may be affected by invasive plant species. We hypothesized that the type of land restoration method applied affects the abundance and composition of soil invertebrates ...
Peliyagodage Chathura Dineth Perera +5 more
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Potential for Interspecies Toxicity Estimation in Soil Invertebrates [PDF]
Toxics, 2021 Interspecies correlation estimation (ICE) models are linear regressions that predict toxicity to a species with few data using a known toxicity value in a surrogate species.
Mace G. Barron, Faith N. Lambert
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Soil invertebrates and ecosystem services
European Journal of Soil Biology, 2006 Invertebrates play significant, but largely ignored, roles in the delivery of ecosystem services by soils at plot and landscape scales. They participate actively in the interactions that develop in soil among physical, chemical and biological processes.
Patrick Lavelle +2 more
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Aboveground herbivory shapes the biomass distribution and flux of soil invertebrates. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BACKGROUND: Living soil invertebrates provide a universal currency for quality that integrates physical and chemical variables with biogeography as the invertebrates reflect their habitat and most ecological changes occurring therein.
Christian Mulder +2 more
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A thesaurus for soil invertebrate trait-based approaches. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Soil invertebrates are known to be much involved in soil behaviour and therefore in the provision of ecosystem services. Functional trait-based approaches are methodologies which can be used to understand soil invertebrates' responses to their ...
Benjamin Pey +21 more
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The Impact of Microplastics on Soil Invertebrates
ProceedingsAs a result of plastic pollution and intentional use of plastics in agriculture, small plastic particles called microplastics (
Anita Jemec Kokalj
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An abundance of soil invertebrates in young and mature palm oil plot in relations to soil physical properties: A preliminary study [PDF]
Journal of Bioscience and Applied Research, 2020 The soil biota is considered the biological engine of the earth and is associated with most of the critical functions of the soil in terms of ecosystem services.
Nurul Hamzah +3 more
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Journal of Fungi, 2022 Soil invertebrates and microorganisms are two major drivers of litter decomposition. Even though the importance of invertebrates and microorganisms in biogeochemical soil cycles and soil food webs has been studied, the effects of invertebrates on fungi ...
Yunru Chen +7 more
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