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Functional diversity of nematodes
Tom Bongers,Marina Bongers +1 more
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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.About:
This article is published in Applied Soil Ecology.The article was published on 1998-11-01. It has received 985 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil food web.read more
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Soil health and sustainability: managing the biotic component of soil quality
John W. Doran,Michael R. Zeiss +1 more
TL;DR: A conference entitled "Soil Health: Managing the Biological Component of Soil Quality" was held in the USA in 1998 to help increase awareness of the importance and utility of soil organisms as indicators of soil quality and determinants of soil health.
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Does organic farming benefit biodiversity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impacts on biodiversity of organic farming, relative to conventional agriculture, through a review of comparative studies of the two systems, in order to determine whether it can deliver on the biodiversity benefits its proponents claim.
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A framework for soil food web diagnostics : extension of the nematode faunal analysis concept
TL;DR: This work enhances the resolution of faunal analyses by providing a weighting system for the indicator importance of the presence and abundance of each functional guild in relation to enrichment and structure of the food web.
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Nematode community structure as a bioindicator in environmental monitoring.
Tom Bongers,Howard Ferris +1 more
TL;DR: Recent development of indices that integrate the responses of different taxa and trophic groups to perturbation provides a powerful basis for analysis of faunal assemblages in soil as in situ environmental assessment systems.
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Nematodes as soil indicators: functional and biodiversity aspects
TL;DR: Analysis of published nematode lists shows that among the bacterial-feeding nematodes Cephalobidae are often the most abundant group in soils; Rhabditidae may increase following a resource pulse; in stressed, natural environments Plectidae may be important.
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The maturity index: an ecological measure of environmental disturbance based on nematode species composition
TL;DR: The maturity index, based on the nematode fauna, is proposed as a gauge of the condition of the soil ecosystem and the use of nematodes in environmental studies is discussed.
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Tylenchida: parasites of plants and insects.
TL;DR: This expanded edition of the tylenchida is a reference work on the important group of nematodes and should be a resource for plant nematologists and plant pathologists.
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Assessing nematode communities in agroecosystems of varying human intervention
TL;DR: Understanding and predicting the impact of the disturbance on the food web and ecosystem functioning would be increased with results from diversity indices and nematode functional groups.