Courtland Kelly

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: The findings support the use of herbarium records for understanding plant phenological responses to changes in temperature, and establish a new use ofHerbarium collections: inferring primary phenological cueing mechanisms of individual species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined soil macrofauna communities and a suite of soil chemical and physical properties in a recently established experiment (2.5 years old) in Akron, Colorado.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of sieve size and soil mass of analysis on POXC results were quantified using replicated measurements across 12 labs in the US and the EU (n ǫ = 7951 samples).

TL;DR: In this article , a set of multivariate analyses, principal components analysis (PCA) on macrofauna data transformed by Hellinger's method, multiple correspondence analysis for environmental data (latitude, elevation, temperature and average annual rainfall, type of vegetation cover) transformed into discrete classes, coinertia analysis to compare these two two data sets, and bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap tests to evaluate the part of the variance of the macro fauna data attributable to each of the environmental factors.