It is increasingly acknowledged that plant–soil feedbacks may play an important role in
driving the composition of plant communities and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems …

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 …

Fundamentals of Soil Ecology, 3rd Edition, offers a holistic approach to soil biology and
ecosystem function, providing students and ecosystem researchers with a greater …

▪ Abstract We explore empirical and theoretical evidence for the functional significance of
plant-litter diversity and the extraordinary high diversity of decomposer organisms in the …

Biodiversity and carbon (C) cycling have been the focus of much research in recent
decades, partly because both change as a result of anthropogenic activities that are likely to …

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

Ecology Letters (2009) 12: 1405–1419 Abstract The global decline of biodiversity caused by
human domination of ecosystems worldwide is supposed to alter important process rates …

Filamentous fungi are critical to the decomposition of terrestrial organic matter and,
consequently, in the global carbon cycle. In particular, their contribution to degradation of …

Belowground communities usually support a much greater diversity of organisms than do
corresponding aboveground ones, and while the factors that regulate their diversity are far …

Deadwood decay is an important ecosystem process in forest ecosystems, but the relative
contribution of specific wood properties of tree species, activities of wood-degrading …