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Does soil biodiversity depend upon metabiotic activity and influences
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Soil ecosystems are modified by metabionts to create habitats or supply resources for which dependent organisms may adapt, evolve and hence diversify, and the diversity of the soil biota and its functional capabilities may to a large extent be the result of and dependent upon metabiotic activity and influences.About:
This article is published in Applied Soil Ecology.The article was published on 1999-10-01. It has received 59 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil biodiversity & Soil ecology.read more
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Biodiversity and Litter Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems
TL;DR: Empirical and theoretical evidence is explored for the functional significance of plant-litter diversity and the extraordinary high diversity of decomposer organisms in the process of litter decomposition and the consequences for biogeochemical cycles.
Soil biodiversity: functions, threats and tools for policy makers
Anne Turbé,Arianna De Toni,Patricia Benito,Patrick Lavelle,Perrine Lavelle,Nuria Ruiz Camacho,Wim H. van der Putten,Eric Labouze,Shaleindra Mudgal +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the state of knowledge of soil biodiversity, its functions, its contribution to ecosystem services and its relevance for the sustainability of human society, in line with the definition of biodiversity given in the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Convention.
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Soil fauna and soil functions: a jigsaw puzzle
TL;DR: A better physiological and metabolic understanding of when and how a complex community of soil organisms access nutrients, alter their environment and in turn, affect soil processes, will allow a more realistic quantitative evaluation of their ecological roles in the biogeochemical cycles.
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Facilitative interactions rather than resource partitioning drive diversity‐functioning relationships in laboratory fungal communities
Alexei V. Tiunov,Stefan Scheu +1 more
TL;DR: The results document that species richness of microbial decomposers strongly affects decomposition processes, at least at the species poor end of the diversity gradient.
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Towards an evolutionary ecology of life in soil
TL;DR: This work reviews and evaluates the relevance of current modelling approaches, and proposes a new synthesis of an evolutionary ecology of life in soil, including an account of dispersal, horizontal gene transfer, and the consideration of the physical and biological components of soil as an integrated complex adaptive system.
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