All terrestrial ecosystems consist of aboveground and belowground components that interact
to influence community-and ecosystem-level processes and properties. Here we show how …

Traditional approaches to the study of food webs emphasize the transfer of local primary
productivity in the form of living plant organic matter across trophic levels. However, dead …

土壤酶在土壤生态系统的物质循环和能量流动方面扮演重要的角色. 目前,
在几乎所有的森林生态系统研究中, 土壤酶活性的监测似乎成为必不可少的研究内容 …

Intensive land use reduces the diversity and abundance of many soil biota, with
consequences for the processes that they govern and the ecosystem services that these …

Invertebrates play significant, but largely ignored, roles in the delivery of ecosystem services
by soils at plot and landscape scales. They participate actively in the interactions that …

Most of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many
thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as …

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

In this work, George C. Williams--one of evolutionary biology's most distinguished scholars--
examines the mechanisms and meaning of natural selection in evolution. Williams offers his …

Publisher Summary This chapter helps in understanding the role of soil fauna in soil
function. Soils host an extremely diverse community of invertebrates that differ in their …

Nematodes are aquatic organisms that depend on thin water films to live and move within
existing pathways of soil pores of 25–100 μm diameter. Soil nematodes can be a tool for …