Darkness visible: reflections on underground ecology

AH Fitter - Journal of Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Soil science and ecology have developed independently, making it difficult for
ecologists to contribute to urgent current debates on the destruction of the global soil …

Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil

AH Fitter, CA Gilligan, K Hollingworth… - Functional …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Soils are one of the last great frontiers for biodiversity research and are home to
an extraordinary range of microbial and animal groups. Biological activities in soils drive …

Biodiversity in the dark

DH Wall, RD Bardgett, E Kelly - Nature Geoscience, 2010 - nature.com
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The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration

GB De Deyn, L Kooistra - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Soils are the fundament of terrestrial ecosystems. Across the globe we find different soil
types with different properties resulting from the interacting soil forming factors: parent …

Selectivity and functional diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizas of co‐occurring fungi and plants from a temperate deciduous woodland

T Helgason, JW Merryweather, J Denison… - Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi colonizing plants at a woodland site in
North Yorkshire (UK) have been characterized from the roots of five plant species (Rubus …

Reconstruction of the historical changes in mycorrhizal fungal communities under anthropogenic nitrogen deposition

LM Egerton-Warburton, RC Graham… - … of the Royal …, 2001 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Archived soil samples (1937-1999) and historic air quality data from the Los Angeles Basin
were used for reconstructing the record of change between atmospheric NOx loads, soil …

Causes and consequences of biological diversity in soil

RD Bardgett - Zoology, 2002 - Elsevier
There is a vast diversity of organisms that live in the soil, and the activities of the total soil
biota, together with the diverse forms and functions of plant roots, have critical roles in soil …

Global patterns in belowground communities

N Fierer, MS Strickland, D Liptzin, MA Bradford… - Ecology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Although belowground ecosystems have been studied extensively and soil biota play
integral roles in biogeochemical processes, surprisingly we have a limited understanding of …

Biodiversity and soil functioning—from black box to can of worms?

O Andrén, J Balandreau - Applied Soil Ecology, 1999 - Elsevier
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Symbiotic fungal associations in 'lower'land plants

DJ Read, JG Duckett, R Francis… - … Transactions of the …, 2000 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An analysis of the current state of knowledge of symbiotic fungal associations in 'lower'plants
is provided. Three fungal phyla, the Zygomycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, are …