Maria J. I. Briones

TL;DR: In this article, high-resolution tracing of 13C from canopy photosynthesis to different groups of soil organisms in a young boreal Pinus sylvestris forest was conducted.

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 quantitative review based on a global meta-analysis showed that disturbing the soil less significantly increased earthworm abundance and biomass compared to when the soil is inverted by conventional ploughing, and confirmed that epigeic and the bigger-sized anecic earthworms were the most sensitive ecological groups to conventional tillage.

TL;DR: The results suggest that current knowledge on the ES provided by insects is relatively scarce and biased, and gaps in the least-studied functional and taxonomic groups are shown.

TL;DR: In this paper, leaf litter from Eucalyptus globulus was decomposed alone and in mixture with either oak (Quercus petraea), ash (Fraxinus excelsior) or birch (Betula pendula) leaf litter under laboratory conditions.