The simultaneous effect of the environmental factors as determinants of soil invertebrate
community structures is little understood. This study was carried out at two depths (0–10, 10 …

Understanding how topography affects the distribution of soil properties is essential in the
management of landscape hydrology and establishment of sustainable soil management …

It is generally assumed that restoring biodiversity will enhance diversity and ecosystem
functioning. However, to date, it has rarely been evaluated whether and how restoration …

The ongoing research 'boom'in soil ecology has been advanced by a widespread use of
laboratory experiments to investigate mechanisms that could not be unravelled with field …

Collapsing gullies are among the most severe soil erosion problems in the tropical and
subtropical areas of southern China. However, few studies have examined the relationship …

In this paper we studied the determinism-stochasticity trade-off affecting the structure of a
soil nematode assemblage. Specifically, in a field experiment that lasted six months, the soil …

Soil fungi are a wide range of microorganisms that play an essential role in enhancing the
available nutrients in the soil for plants. In the current study, to study the fungal association …

The effect of altitude and season on abundance and diversity of the culturable heterotrophic
bacterial and yeast community was examined at four forest sites in the Italian Alps along an …

Functional traits are increasingly used in ecology to link the structure of microbial
communities to ecosystem processes. We investigated two important protistan lineages …

There is much interest in the identification of the main drivers controlling changes in the
microbial community that may be related to sustainable land use. We examined the …