Over 100 gigatons of terrestrial plant biomass are produced globally each year. Ninety
percent of this biomass escapes herbivory and enters the dead organic matter pool, thus …

Chronosequences and associated space‐for‐time substitutions are an important and often
necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities and soil development …

Soils are the main terrestrial reservoir of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and of
organic carbon. Synthesizing earlier studies, we find that the mobilization and deposition of …

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

Soil communities can have profound effects on invasions of ecosystems by exotic plant
species. We propose that there are three main pathways by which this can happen. First …

Human societies rely on the vast diversity of benefits provided by nature, such as food,
fibres, construction materials, clean water, clean air and climate regulation. All the elements …

A significant fraction of the Earth's land surface is dominated by bryophytes. Research on
carbon and nitrogen budgets of tundra, boreal, and peatland ecosystems has demonstrated …

Urban soils provide an array of ecosystem services to inhabitants of cities and towns.
Urbanization affects soils and their capacity to provide ecosystem services directly through …

Vermicomposting, a very efficient method of converting solid organic waste into an
environmentally-friendly, useful and valuable resource, is an accelerated process that …

We investigated the link between aboveground and belowground diversity in temperate
deciduous forest ecosystems. To this end, we determined the effects of the tree species …