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Earthworm and belowground competition effects on plant productivity in a plant diversity gradient.
Oecologia Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19526252
How do earthworms, soil texture and plant composition affect infiltration along an experimental plant diversity gradient in grassland?
PloS one , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24918943
Unifying elemental stoichiometry and metabolic theory in predicting species abundances.
Ecology letters Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25041038
Plant diversity shapes microbe-rhizosphere effects on P mobilisation from organic matter in soil.
Ecology letters Dec, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26415778
Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences May, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27114577
Mineralisation of C-labelled polystyrene plastics by Penicillium variabile after ozonation pre-treatment.
New biotechnology Sep, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27450755
Flood-Induced Changes in Soil Microbial Functions as Modified by Plant Diversity.
PloS one , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27870864
Links between the detritivore and the herbivore system: effects of earthworms and Collembola on plant growth and aphid development.
Oecologia Jun, 1999 | Pubmed ID: 28307712
Disentangling the root- and detritus-based food chain in the micro-food web of an arable soil by plant removal.
PloS one , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28704438
Trophic niches, diversity and community composition of invertebrate top predators (Chilopoda) as affected by conversion of tropical lowland rainforest in Sumatra (Indonesia).
PloS one , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28763453
Leaf and root litter decomposition is discontinued at high altitude tropical montane rainforests contributing to carbon sequestration.
Ecology and evolution Aug, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28861246
Priorities for research in soil ecology.
Pedobiologia Jul, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29129942
Biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions.
Nature ecology & evolution Jan, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29180710
Neutral lipid fatty acid composition as trait and constraint in Collembola evolution.
Ecology and evolution Nov, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29187995
Root-derived carbon and nitrogen from beech and ash trees differentially fuel soil animal food webs of deciduous forests.
PloS one , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29236746
The structure of salt marsh soil mesofauna food webs - The prevalence of disturbance.
PloS one , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29240806
Micro-decomposer communities and decomposition processes in tropical lowlands as affected by land use and litter type.
Oecologia May, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29497833
Evaluation of Morphological Characteristics to Delineate Taxa of the Genus Trigonopyxis (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida).
Protist Apr, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29614434
Uncovering trophic positions and food resources of soil animals using bulk natural stable isotope composition.
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Feb, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 29920907
Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations.
Nature communications Jun, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29921837
Response of Collembola and Acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment.
PloS one , 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30161191
Seasonal dynamics and changing sea level as determinants of the community and trophic structure of oribatid mites in a salt marsh of the Wadden Sea.
PloS one , 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30408121
Description of three new species of Thoma, 2014 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia.
ZooKeys , 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30505162
Decomposer diversity increases biomass production and shifts aboveground-belowground biomass allocation of common wheat.
Scientific reports Dec, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30559347
Combining bulk and amino acid stable isotope analyses to quantify trophic level and basal resources of detritivores: a case study on earthworms.
Oecologia Feb, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30659383
Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia.
ZooKeys , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30733636
Protura are unique: first evidence of specialized feeding on ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil invertebrates.
BMC ecology Feb, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30795747
Changes in Trophic Groups of Protists With Conversion of Rainforest Into Rubber and Oil Palm Plantations.
Frontiers in microbiology , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30809219
Deprivation of root-derived resources affects microbial biomass but not community structure in litter and soil.
PloS one , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30921392
No signal of deleterious mutation accumulation in conserved gene sequences of extant asexual hexapods.
Scientific reports Mar, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30926861
Collembola interact with mycorrhizal fungi in modifying oak morphology, C and N incorporation and transcriptomics.
Royal Society open science Mar, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31032040
Linking size spectrum, energy flux and trophic multifunctionality in soil food webs of tropical land-use systems.
The Journal of animal ecology Dec, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31111468
Review of the mite genus (Acari, Laelapidae) and redescription of Berlese.
ZooKeys , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31217716
Effects of root and leaf litter identity and diversity on oribatid mite abundance, species richness and community composition.
PloS one , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31291304
Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale.
Nature Aug, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31341281
Conversion of rainforest to oil palm and rubber plantations alters energy channels in soil food webs.
Ecology and evolution Aug, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31463001
Field exclusion of large soil predators impacts lower trophic levels and decreases leaf-litter decomposition in dry forests.
The Journal of animal ecology Feb, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31494934
Shift in trophic niches of soil microarthropods with conversion of tropical rainforest into plantations as indicated by stable isotopes (15N, 13C).
PloS one , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31652281
Functional losses in ground spider communities due to habitat structure degradation under tropical land-use change.
Ecology Mar, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31840252
Spiders in rice-paddy ecosystems shift from aquatic to terrestrial prey and use carbon pools of different origin.
Oecologia Mar, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32002648
Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands.
Nature ecology & evolution Mar, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32094542
Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes.
Nature communications Mar, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32132531
A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition.
Scientific data Mar, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32218461
Variation in trophic niches of oribatid mites in temperate forest ecosystems as indicated by neutral lipid fatty acid patterns.
Experimental & applied acarology May, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32347428
Plant diversity influenced gross nitrogen mineralization, microbial ammonium consumption and gross inorganic N immobilization in a grassland experiment.
Oecologia Jul, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32737568
The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic.
Nature ecology & evolution Nov, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32839545
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning.
Nature ecology & evolution Dec, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33020598
Review of the mite genus Datta & Bhattacharjee (Mesostigmata, Parholaspididae) with re-description of comb. nov. (Ishikawa) from Indonesia.
ZooKeys , 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33335440
The complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic predaceous springtail from northeast China.
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources Jan, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33366623
Repeated convergent evolution of parthenogenesis in Acariformes (Acari).
Ecology and evolution Jan, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33437432
Leaf litter identity rather than diversity shapes microbial functions and microarthropod abundance in tropical montane rainforests.
Ecology and evolution Mar, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33717461
Changes in diversity and community assembly of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) after rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm plantations.
PeerJ , 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33717710
Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use.
Oecologia May, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33852071
Incorporation of mineral nitrogen into the soil food web as affected by plant community composition.
Ecology and evolution May, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33976811
Legacy effects of temporary grassland in annual crop rotation on soil ecosystem services.
The Science of the total environment Aug, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34030316
Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems.
Ecology and evolution Aug, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34367581
Conversion of rainforest into oil palm and rubber plantations affects the functional composition of litter and soil Collembola.
Ecology and evolution Aug, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34367606
Ectomycorrhizal fungus supports endogenous rhythmic growth and corresponding resource allocation in oak during various below- and aboveground biotic interactions.
Scientific reports Dec, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34880358
Conventional agriculture and not drought alters relationships between soil biota and functions.
Scientific reports Dec, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34907218
Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot.
Scientific reports Dec, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34972835
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates.
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Jun, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35060265
Trophic niche but not abundance of Collembola and Oribatida changes with drought and farming system.
PeerJ , 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35070508
Drivers of Collembola assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in northeast China.
Ecology and evolution Feb, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35169449
Biotic filtering by species' interactions constrains food-web variability across spatial and abiotic gradients.
Ecology letters May, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35286010
Spatial and temporal variations in salt marsh microorganisms of the Wadden Sea.
Ecology and evolution Mar, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35356561
Tropical land use alters functional diversity of soil food webs and leads to monopolization of the detrital energy channel.
eLife Mar, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35357306
Earthworms as catalysts in the formation and stabilization of soil microbial necromass.
Global change biology Aug, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35543252
Trophic structure and origin of resources of soil macrofauna in the salt marsh of the Wadden Sea: a stable isotope (N, C) study.
BMC ecology and evolution Jun, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35761170
Land-use change shifts and magnifies seasonal variations of the decomposer system in lowland tropical landscapes.
Ecology and evolution Jul, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35784088
Historical and future climate change fosters expansion of Australian harvester termites, Drepanotermes.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution Sep, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35842838
Rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm reduces abundance, biomass and diversity of canopy spiders.
PeerJ , 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35990898
Differences in leaf and root litter decomposition in tropical montane rainforests are mediated by soil microorganisms not by decomposer microarthropods.
PeerJ , 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36348661
The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences Jan, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36373930
Multidimensional stoichiometric mismatch explains differences in detritivore biomass across three forest types.
The Journal of animal ecology Feb, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36477808
Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations.
BMC ecology and evolution Dec, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36517771
High consistency of trophic niches in generalist arthropod species (Oribatida, Acari) across soil depth and forest type.
Ecology and evolution Dec, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36523514
Changes in microbial community structure and functioning with elevation are linked to local soil characteristics as well as climatic variables.
Ecology and evolution Dec, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36590334
Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully.
Nature ecology & evolution Mar, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36646947
Conifers and non-native tree species shift trophic niches of generalist arthropod predators in Central European beech forests.
BMC ecology and evolution Feb, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36737705
Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails.
Nature communications Feb, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36750574
Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities.
Ecology letters May, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36857203
Correction to: Conifers and non-native tree species shift trophic niches of generalist arthropod predators in central european beech forests.
BMC ecology and evolution Mar, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36973647
Earthworms increase forest litter mass loss irrespective of deposited compounds - A field manipulation experiment in subtropical forests.
Ecology and evolution May, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37139404
Opening up new niche dimensions: The stoichiometry of soil microarthropods in European beech and Norway spruce forests.
Ecology and evolution May, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37223311
Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes.
Nature Jun, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37225981
Earthworms neutralize the influence of components of particulate pollutants on soil extracellular enzymatic functions in subtropical forests.
PeerJ , 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37551350
Response of protists to nitrogen addition, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi manipulation, and mesofauna reduction in a tropical montane rainforest in southern Ecuador.
The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology , 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37577763
Tree species identity, canopy structure and prey availability differentially affect canopy spider diversity and trophic composition.
Oecologia Oct, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37709958
Urban greenspaces shape soil protist communities in a location-specific manner.
Environmental research Jan, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 37907164
Mycorrhizal C/N ratio determines plant-derived carbon and nitrogen allocation to symbiosis.
Communications biology Dec, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 38053000
Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types.
Oecologia Jan, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 38147134
Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure.
Scientific data Jan, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 38172139
Trophic niches of Collembola communities change with elevation, but also with body size and life form.
Oecologia Mar, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 38265599
Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs.
Nature Mar, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 38355803
Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Apr, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 38621138
Niche dimensions in soil oribatid mite community assembly under native and introduced tree species.
Ecology and evolution May, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 38770121
Species delimitation 4.0: integrative taxonomy meets artificial intelligence.
Trends in ecology & evolution Aug, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 38849221
Colonization ability and uniformity of resources and environmental factors determine biological homogenization of soil protists in human land-use systems.
Global change biology Jul, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39001641
The unique epicuticular chemistry of Collembola - A cross-species analysis.
iScience Aug, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39139403
Colonization of mudflat substrate by microarthropods: the role of distance, inundation frequency and body size.
Oecologia Oct, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39231844
Convergent evolution revealed by paraphyly and polyphyly of many taxa of oribatid mites: A molecular approach.
Experimental & applied acarology Dec, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39244702
Identification of unique highly hetero-substituted benzenes as chemical weapons of springtails by a combination of trace analytical methods with DFT calculations and synthesis.
Chemical science Sep, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39246360
The influence of forest types including native and non-native tree species on soil macrofauna depends on site conditions.
Ecology and evolution Sep, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39301294
Enhancing economic multifunctionality without compromising multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality via forest enrichment.
Science advances Oct, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39441929
Soil community history strengthens belowground multitrophic functioning across plant diversity levels in a grassland experiment.
Nature communications Nov, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39562617
Trophic Change and Community Decline in Acrobat Ants After Rainforest Conversion to Cash Crops.
Ecology and evolution Dec, 2024 | Pubmed ID: 39717641
Litter quality modulates changes in bacterial and fungal communities during the gut transit of earthworm species of different ecological groups.
ISME communications Jan, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 39882509
Interactions Between Bacterivorous Nematodes and Bacteria Reduce NO Emissions.
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Jan, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 39887670
Shared community history strengthens plant diversity effects on below-ground multitrophic functioning.
The Journal of animal ecology Jan, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 39887967
High litter quality enhances plant energy channeling by soil macro-detritivores and lowers their trophic position.
Ecology Feb, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 39988993
Older Lineages of Oribatid Mites in Mountain Ranges Have Broader Geographic Ranges and Exhibit More Generalistic Traits.
Ecology and evolution Mar, 2025 | Pubmed ID: 40027424
Anna-Maria Madaj1,2,
Yuanyuan Huang1,2,
Anne Ebeling3,
Lisa Ertel1,2,
Alban Gebler1,2,
Gerd Gleixner1,4,5,
Jes Hines1,2,
Christiane Roscher1,6,
Alexandra Weigelt1,2,
Cynthia Albracht7,8,9,
Angelos Amyntas1,10,
Leonardo Bassi1,2,
Ana Elizabeth Bonato Asato1,2,
Michael Bonkowski11,12,
Maximilian Bröcher3,
François Buscot1,8,
Francesca De Giorgi1,6,
Yuri Pinheiro Alves de Souza13,14,
Van Cong Doan1,10,
Walter Durka1,15,
Anna Heintz-Buschart7,
Justus Hennecke1,2,
Markus Lange4,
Pamela Medina-van Berkum16,
Sebastian Tobias Meyer14,
Sören Krawczyk1,2,
Akanksha Rai4,
Thomas Reitz1,8,
Christian Ristok1,2,
Stefan Scheu17,18,
Michael Schloter13,14,
Stefanie Schulz13,
Marcel Dominik Solbach11,
Sybille Barbara Unsicker16,19,
Nico Eisenhauer1,2
1, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig,
2Institute of Biology, Leipzig University,
3Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
4, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry,
5Institute for Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
6Department Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ),
7Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam,
8Department Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ),
9Institute Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institute,
10Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
11Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne,
12Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne,
13Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich,
14School of Life Science, Technical University Munich - TUM,
15Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ),
16Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology,
17JFB Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen,
18Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen,
19Botanical Institute, Plant-Environment-Interactions Group, Kiel University
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