Runa S. Boeddinghaus

TL;DR: It is shown that increasing land-use intensity homogenizes the synergies between three organizational levels of the ecosystem, namely, biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services, and that this approach provides a comprehensive view of ecosystem functioning and can identify the key ecosystem attributes to monitor in order to prevent critical shifts in ecosystems.

TL;DR: The results indicate that in an unfertilized perennial grassland, at the meter scale, abundances of microbial N-cycling organisms can exhibit transient changes, while nitrogen cycling processes remain stable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relation between decimeter to meter spatial variability of soil microbial community structure, plant diversity, and soil properties at six dates from April through November, and concluded that spatial distribution patterns of soil microorganisms change over a season and that chemical soil properties are more important controlling factors than plant density and diversity.

TL;DR: This study conducted an intensive survey of a 10 m2 grassland plot in Germany, focusing on a major group of protists, the Cercozoa, finding evidence of environmental selection structuring the cercozoan communities both spatially and seasonally.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured multiple microbial functions, bacterial and fungal biomass and abiotic soil properties at two time intervals 3 years apart, and found that plant traits, particularly leaf phosphorus, and soil pH were the best predictors of change in soil microbial function, as well as fungal and bacterial biomass.