[HTML][HTML] Global distribution of soil fauna functional groups and their estimated litter consumption across biomes

P Heděnec, JJ Jiménez, J Moradi, X Domene… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Soil invertebrates (ie, soil fauna) are important drivers of many key processes in soils
including soil aggregate formation, water retention, and soil organic matter transformation …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of organic fertilizer incorporation practices on crops yield, soil quality, and soil fauna feeding activity in the wheat-maize rotation system

Z Zhou, S Zhang, N Jiang, W Xiu, J Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The decline in soil quality is becoming a significant process of soil degradation. Optimizing
organic fertilizer incorporation practices in cropland is essential to enhancing crop …

Medium-term effects of corn biochar addition on soil biota activities and functions in a temperate soil cropped to corn

X Domene, S Mattana, K Hanley, A Enders… - Soil Biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Biochar addition to soil has been generally associated with crop yield increases observed in
some soils, and increased nutrient availability is one of the mechanisms proposed. Any …

Reduced feeding activity of soil detritivores under warmer and drier conditions

MP Thakur, PB Reich, SE Hobbie, A Stefanski… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Anthropogenic warming is projected to trigger positive feedbacks to climate by enhancing
carbon losses from the soil. While such losses are, in part, due to increased decomposition …

Soil fauna alter the effects of litter composition on nitrogen cycling in a mineral soil

Y Carrillo, BA Ball, MA Bradford, CF Jordan… - Soil Biology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Plant chemical composition and the soil community are known to influence litter and soil
organic matter decomposition. Although these two factors are likely to interact, their …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of drought and nutrient addition on soil organisms vary across taxonomic groups, but are constant across seasons

J Siebert, M Sünnemann, H Auge, S Berger… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Anthropogenic global change alters the activity and functional composition of soil
communities that are responsible for crucial ecosystem functions and services. Two of the …

Warming alters energetic structure and function but not resilience of soil food webs

B Schwarz, AD Barnes, MP Thakur, U Brose… - Nature climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Climate warming is predicted to alter the structure, stability, and functioning of food webs,,,–.
Yet, despite the importance of soil food webs for energy and nutrient turnover in terrestrial …

Soil fauna feeding activity in temperate grassland soils increases with legume and grass species richness

K Birkhofer, T Diekötter, S Boch, M Fischer… - Soil Biology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Edaphic fauna contributes to important ecosystem functions in grassland soils such as
decomposition and nutrient mineralization. Since this functional role is likely to be altered by …

[HTML][HTML] Spontaneous vegetation colonizing abandoned metal (loid) mine tailings consistently modulates climatic, chemical and biological soil conditions throughout …

J Álvarez-Rogel, A Peñalver-Alcalá… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aimed to evaluate whether the improvement in soil conditions induced by the
vegetation spontaneously colonizing abandoned metal (loid) mine tailings from semiarid …

Digital mapping of soil invertebrates using environmental attributes in a deciduous forest ecosystem

S Tajik, S Ayoubi, H Shirani, M Zeraatpisheh - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …