Marina Bongers

TL;DR: The most recent colonizer–persister allocation and the application of this scaling in the Maturity Index, cp-triangles, MI(2–5) and PPI/MI-ratio is presented and the life strategy approach and trophic group classification are proposed to integrate to obtain a better understanding of nematode biodiversity and soil functioning.

TL;DR: A high nematode richness can generally be seen as a good indicator of an active nematofauna and microflora in mineral grassland soils, and hence as an indicator of the decomposition function.

TL;DR: Consensus nematode 18S ribosomal DNA primers were designed by aligning available 18S sequences and identifying a variable region flanked by highly conserved regions and used to amplify 18S rDNA from whole soil community DNA extracted from a range of European grassland types.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the nematofauna on the microbiology and soil nitrogen status was studied in 6 major European grassland types (Northern tundra (Abisko, Sweden), Atlantic heath (Otterburn, UK), wet grassland (Wageningen, Netherlands), semi-natural temperate grassland, Linden, Germany, East European steppe (Pusztaszer, Hungary) and Mediterranean garigue (Mt. Vermion, Greece).