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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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The structure of salt marsh soil mesofauna food webs - The prevalence of disturbance. [PDF]

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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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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Responses of grassland soil mesofauna to induced climate change [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Climate change can significantly affect the below and above-ground ecosystems. This study aimed to test the effects of induced climate change on the composition of soil mesofauna and vascular plant species in semi-natural grasslands.
Iwona Gruss, Marta Czarniecka-Wiera, Sebastian Świerszcz, Magdalena Szymura, Tomasz Szymura, Małgorzata W. Raduła   +5 more
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Observing the invisible: X-ray CT for plant-microbe interactions. [PDF]

New Phytol
Utility of X‐ray computed tomography (X‐ray CT) for visualising belowground plant interactions between multiple spatial scales and focal planes. Summary Plant–microbe interactions are inherently spatial, yet the physical structure of the soil and rhizosphere is rarely treated as a mechanistic variable in experimental design.
Pereira EC, Bell CA.
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Land-Use Types Influence the Community Composition of Soil Mesofauna in the Coastal Zones of Bohai Bay, China

Diversity, 2022
Soil faunal communities play key roles in maintaining soil nutrient cycling. Affected by different land-use types, soil environment and soil faunal communities change significantly.
Xiaoxue Zheng, Yan Tao, Zhongqiang Wang, Xinchang Kou, Haixia Wang, Shengzhong Wang, Donghui Wu   +6 more
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Soil Mesofauna Community Changes in Response to the Environmental Gradients of Urbanization in Guangzhou City

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
There has been a recent increase in interest on how urbanization affects soil fauna communities. However, previous studies primarily focused on some limited land use types or line transects of urban-rural gradients. At family and higher taxonomic levels,
Shiqin Yu, Shiqin Yu, Shiqin Yu, Junliang Qiu, Xiaohua Chen, Xiaofeng Luo, Xiankun Yang, Xiankun Yang, Xiankun Yang, Faming Wang, Guoliang Xu, Guoliang Xu, Guoliang Xu   +12 more
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Population and Diversity of Soil and Leaf Litter Mesofauna in Arable Soils at The Agriculture Experimental Field of University of Lampung [PDF]

Journal of Tropical Soils, 2017
The research was conducted to study the population and diversity of soil and leaf litter mesofauna in arable soils under different types of vegetation and slope at the Agriculture Experimental Field (AEF) of University of Lampung.
Mas Achmad Syamsul Arif, Ainin Niswati, Sri Yusnaini, Novia Pratiwi Ardiyani   +3 more
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Fertilization Rapidly Alters the Feeding Activity of Grassland Soil Mesofauna Independent of Management History

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Nitrogen fertilization of permanent grasslands affects soil fauna communities by modifying their taxonomic composition, population dynamics and feeding activity.
Klaus Birkhofer, Dennis Baulechner, Tim Diekötter, Andrey Zaitsev, Volkmar Wolters   +4 more
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Soil mineral nitrogen content is increased by soil mesofauna and nematodes – a meta-analysis

Soil Organisms, 2023
The world’s soils maintain various ecosystem processes and functions, such as the provision of nitrogen, which is the basis for plant growth. Microorganisms are the key actors in nitrogen transformation processes, but soil fauna can also affect nitrogen ...
Birgit Lang, Bibiana Betancur-Corredor, David J. Russell   +2 more
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