Benjamin Schwarz

TL;DR: It was found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms, which suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.

TL;DR: Warming interacts with forest disturbance and drought to shape the energetic structure of soil food webs; these changes can undermine the provision of multiple ecosystem functions in transitional boreal–temperate forests and threaten the provisioning of multiplecosystem functions in boreal-temperate ecotonal forests.

TL;DR: The Nordic Society Oikos as mentioned in this paper published an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

TL;DR: A review of the growing literature on temporal dynamics of plant-animal mutualistic networks including pollination, seed dispersal and ant defence mutualisms finds that at the finest temporal scales, mutualistic interactions are highly dynamic, with considerable variation in network structure.

TL;DR: The results indicate that tree identity, but not tree diversity drives earthworm communities in young tree stands, and future studies should consider litter and root traits of trees, and both the effects of trees and herbaceous plants in the understory to explain variations in ecological communities and ecosystem processes.