Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory

AD Barnes, C Scherber, U Brose, ET Borer… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Arthropod herbivores cause substantial economic costs that drive an increasing need to
develop environmentally sustainable approaches to herbivore control. Increasing plant …

Changes in plant-herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests

F Neff, M Brändle, D Ambarlı, C Ammer, J Bauhus… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Land-use intensification poses major threats to biodiversity, such as to insect herbivore
communities. The stability of these communities depends on interactions linking herbivores …

Multiple dimensions of soil food-web research: History and prospects

A Potapov, Z Lindo, R Buchkowski, S Geisen - European Journal of Soil …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil food webs are at the nexus of soil biodiversity, functioning, and stability. With a research
history of over 35 years, soil food-web research remains a challenging and relatively …

Global monitoring of soil animal communities using a common methodology

AM Potapov, X Sun, MJI Briones, GG Brown… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Here we introduce the Soil BON Foodweb Team, a cross-continental collaborative network
that aims to monitor soil animal communities and food webs using consistent methodology …

The travel speeds of large animals are limited by their heat-dissipation capacities

A Dyer, U Brose, E Berti, B Rosenbaum, MR Hirt - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Movement is critical to animal survival and, thus, biodiversity in fragmented landscapes.
Increasing fragmentation in the Anthropocene necessitates predictions about the movement …

Rainforest conversion to cash crops reduces abundance, biomass and species richness of parasitoid wasps in Sumatra, Indonesia

A Azhar, TR Hartke, L Böttges, T Lang… - Agricultural and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Parasitoid wasps affect herbivory in natural and agricultural ecosystems, including cash
crops. The impacts of rainforest transformation to rubber and oil palm on parasitoid wasp …

Earthworm invasion causes declines across soil fauna size classes and biodiversity facets in northern North American forests

M Jochum, O Ferlian, MP Thakur, M Ciobanu, B Klarner… - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic pressures alter the biodiversity, structure and organization of biological
communities with severe consequences for ecosystem processes. Species invasion is such …

Predator–prey interactions of terrestrial invertebrates are determined by predator body size and species identity

A Miller‐ter Kuile, A Apigo, A Bui, B DiFiore… - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predator–prey interactions shape ecosystems and can help maintain biodiversity. However,
for many of the earth's most biodiverse and abundant organisms, including terrestrial …

Out of the dark: Using energy flux to connect above‐and belowground communities and ecosystem functioning

M Jochum, N Eisenhauer - European Journal of Soil Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil ecosystems are both particularly important to humans and vulnerable to human‐made
global change. Here, we identify some key aspects of soil community and ecosystem …

Increased arthropod biomass, abundance and species richness in an agricultural landscape after 32 years

J Fürst, K Bollmann, MM Gossner, P Duelli… - Journal of Insect …, 2023 - Springer
Recent studies reporting widespread declines in arthropod biomass, abundance and
species diversity raised wide concerns in research and conservation. However, repeated …