David J. Russell

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: A new systemic modeling framework that allows for a consistent coupling between reductionist yet observable indicators for soil functions with detailed process understanding is presented, based on the mechanistic relationships between soil functional attributes, each explained by a network of interacting processes as derived from scientific evidence.

TL;DR: Effectes of temperature preference were more consistent in terrestrial communities than effects of habitat preference, suggesting that the impacts of temperature change have become widespread for recent changes in abundance within many terrestrial communities of central Europe.

TL;DR: Active dispersal is an important dispersal mechanism in the colonization of young soils, however, several species combine different dispersal mechanisms, so that the number of possible dispersal pathways is one factor that determines specimen- and species-richness in a newly found habitat.

TL;DR: A systematic literature review is presented to investigate whether and how key biodiversity theories (species–energy relationship, theory of island biogeography, metacommunity theory, niche theory and neutral theory) can explain observed patterns of soil biodiversity.