Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

Despite the major importance of soil biota in nutrient and energy fluxes, interactions in soil
food webs are poorly understood. Here we provide an overview of recent advances in …

Collembola are among the most abundant, diverse and functionally important groups of soil
animals. Collembolans inhabit different litter and soil layers and their food objects are …

Insects are the most diverse organisms and often the most abundant animals in some
ecosystems. Despite the importance of their functional roles and of the knowledge for …

The soil food web has been referred to as a 'black box', a 'poor man's tropical rainforest'and
an 'enigma', due to its opacity, diversity and the limited insight into feeding specificity. Here …

Climate change will likely increase habitat loss of endemic tree species and drives forest
conversion in mountainous forests. Elevation gradients provide the opportunity to predict …

Feeding on a variety of resources, collembolans have been assumed to be food generalists.
However, recent stable isotope analyses documented that collembolan species occupy …

Urban regions are rapidly expanding worldwide resulting in biotic homogenization and loss
of ecological functions in urban ecosystems due to management practices targeting at …

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) have been used to study the
structure of food webs. However, few studies have examined how a terrestrial food web can …

The vertical heterogeneity of trophic interactions in soil food webs in temperate forest
systems and its response to deprivation of root energy supply are poorly understood. In the …