A review of earthworm impact on soil function and ecosystem services

M Blouin, ME Hodson, EA Delgado… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is responsible for the provision of many ecosystem services; human well‐being
is based on these services, and consequently on biodiversity. In soil, earthworms represent …

Ecosystem characteristics and processes facilitating persistent macrobenthic biomass hotspots and associated benthivory in the Pacific Arctic

JM Grebmeier, BA Bluhm, LW Cooper… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The northern Bering and Chukchi Seas are areas in the Pacific Arctic characterized
by high northward advection of Pacific Ocean water, with seasonal variability in sea ice …

A hump-backed trend in bacterial diversity with elevation on Mount Fuji, Japan

D Singh, K Takahashi, M Kim, J Chun, JM Adams - Microbial ecology, 2012 - Springer
Little is known of how bacterial diversity in soils varies with elevation. One previous study
found a decline with elevation, whereas another found no trend. We chose Mount Fuji of …

[PDF][PDF] The first global integrated marine assessment

L Inniss, A Simcock, AY Ajawin, AC Alcala… - … Nations. Accessed at …, 2016 - researchgate.net
As we seek to pursue sustainable development, we all need an understanding of the ways–
environmental, social and economic–in which we humans interact with the world around us …

Towards a pan-Arctic inventory of the species diversity of the macro-and megabenthic fauna of the Arctic shelf seas

D Piepenburg, P Archambault, WG Ambrose… - Marine Biodiversity, 2011 - Springer
Although knowledge of Arctic seas has increased tremendously in the past decade, benthic
diversity was investigated at regional scales only, and no attempt had been made to …

Soil bacterial diversity patterns and drivers along an elevational gradient on S hennongjia Mountain, C hina

Y Zhang, J Cong, H Lu, G Li, Y Xue… - Microbial …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding biological diversity elevational pattern and the driver factors are
indispensable to develop the ecological theories. Elevational gradient may minimize the …

Diversity of the arctic deep-sea benthos

BA Bodil, WG Ambrose, M Bergmann, LM Clough… - Marine Biodiversity, 2011 - Springer
A benthic species inventory of 1,125 taxa was compiled from various sources for the central
Arctic deeper than 500 m, and bounded to the Atlantic by Fram Strait. The inventory was …

Species diversity, functional complexity and rarity in Arctic fjordic versus open shelf benthic systems

M Włodarska-Kowalczuk, PE Renaud… - Marine Ecology …, 2012 - int-res.com
We present a cross-system comparison of benthic species pools, species diversity,
functional complexity and rarity in 2 typical Arctic coastal systems: an open shelf marginal …

Beta diversity of demersal fish assemblages in the North-Eastern Pacific: interactions of latitude and depth

MJ Anderson, N Tolimieri, RB Millar - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Knowledge of broad-scale global patterns in beta diversity (ie, variation or turnover in
identities of species) for marine systems is in its infancy. We analysed the beta diversity of …

Taxonomic distinctness of demersal fishes of the California current: moving beyond simple measures of diversity for marine ecosystem-based management

N Tolimieri, MJ Anderson - PLoS One, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Large-scale patterns or trends in species diversity have long interested
ecologists. The classic pattern is for diversity (eg, species richness) to decrease with …