Connecting taxonomy and ecology: Trophic niches of collembolans as related to taxonomic identity and life forms

AA Potapov, EE Semenina, AY Korotkevich… - Soil Biology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Higher taxa are sufficient to represent biodiversity patterns

SS de Oliveira Jr, JCG Ortega, LG dos Santos Ribas… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The scarcity of knowledge about both biodiversity (Linnean shortfall) and the geographic
distributions of species (Wallacean shortfall) makes it hard to conduct biomonitoring …

[HTML][HTML] Energy flow across soil food webs of different ecosystems: food webs with complex structures support higher energy flux

H Zheng, D Gao, Y Zhou, J Zhao - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy flux in food webs is a fundamental feature of ecosystems and an important link
between biodiversity and ecosystem function. Studies of energy flow through the soil …

Taxonomic sufficiency and indicator taxa reduce sampling costs and increase monitoring effectiveness for ants

JLP Souza, FB Baccaro, VL Landeiro… - Diversity and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Despite the accelerating loss of biodiversity and the increased number of methods for
conservation planning, the availability of information about the spatial distribution of …

The effect of soil type and ecosystems on the soil nematode and microbial communities

M Renčo, E Gömöryová, A Čerevková - Helminthologia, 2020 - sciendo.com
Integrated studies are required to better understand the relationships between groups of soil
microfauna under the influence of various biotic and abiotic factors that drive and …

Effects of protected areas on soil nematode communities in forests of the North of Portugal

AC Duarte, CA Guerra, C Cano-Díaz, R Zeiss… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Nature conservation policy is mainly concerned with aboveground terrestrial species and
soil biodiversity has been largely ignored, resulting in a lack of information about the …

Trophic consistency of supraspecific taxa in below‐ground invertebrate communities: Comparison across lineages and taxonomic ranks

AM Potapov, S Scheu, AV Tiunov - Functional Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Animals that have similar morphological traits are expected to share similar ecological
niches. This statement applies to individual animals within a species and thus species often …

Nematode community indices for microhabitat type and large scale landscape properties

MA Tsiafouli, DR Bhusal, SP Sgardelis - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Nematode community indices have been broadly used to assess and monitor soil
conditions. Most studies focused on agricultural or other disturbed soils and were usually …

Soil mites as bioindicators of disturbance in the boreal forest in northern Alberta, Canada: Testing taxonomic sufficiency at multiple taxonomic levels

ML Meehan, Z Song, LM Lumley, TP Cobb… - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil systems provide numerous ecosystem services but are often degraded due to
anthropogenic and natural disturbances. Invertebrates can be used as biological indicators …

Temperature-based bioclimatic parameters can predict nematode metabolic footprints

DR Bhusal, MA Tsiafouli, SP Sgardelis - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Nematode metabolic footprints (MFs) refer to the lifetime amount of metabolized carbon per
individual, indicating a connection to soil food web functions and eventually to processes …