Richard D. Bardgett

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of species gain and loss have been investigated. But the authors focus on traits associated with species loss, and much remains unknown about how traits that predispose species to extinction affect ecological processes.

TL;DR: Particle-size fractionation of a heavy metal polluted soil was performed to study the influence of environmental pollution on microbial community structure, microbial biomass, microbial residues and enzyme activities in microhabitats of a Calcaric Phaeocem as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The analysis of a global dataset of 10 functionally important root traits in metabolically active first-order roots suggests that plants have evolved thinner roots since they first emerged in land ecosystems, which has enabled them to markedly improve their efficiency of soil exploration per unit of carbon invested and to reduce their dependence on symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi.

TL;DR: Correlation analysis of the CVA data for each microbial analysis showed a small, but significant, level of matching between the CLPP and PLFA data suggesting these two analyses may be reporting on similar members of the microbial community.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of changes in species distributions and dominances on key ecosystem processes and properties are considered, based upon best estimates of the trajectories of key transformations, their magnitude and rates of change.