Invertebrates as Webmasters in Ecosystems

By D. Coleman, P. Hendrix. 2000

202 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science

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In Ecology

1. K. Scow
2. T. Larsen
3. S. Spector
4. M. Bradford
5. A. Brauman
6. J. Ehrenfeld
7. R. Venette
8. V. Behan-Pelletier

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. S. Spector
2. T. Larsen
3. A. Brauman
4. D. Wall
5. M. Callaham
6. V. Behan-Pelletier
7. F. Escobar
8. H. Ferris

In Insect Science

1. V. Behan-Pelletier
2. A. Brauman
3. H. Ferris
4. K. Beard
5. Karl Ritz
6. M. Bradford
7. D. Wall
8. W. Weisser

Citations in the corpus

• The Various Effects of Insects on Ecosystem Functioning (2008, background): “…al. 1978; Lee 1979; Hutchinson and King 1982; Seastedt and Crossley 1984; Lamb 1985; Detling 1988; Urbanek 1988; Hutson 1989; Whelan 1989; Huntly 1991; Curry 1994; Lerdau 1996; Lewinsohn and Price 1996; Wallace and Webster 1996; Price 1997; Coleman and Hendrix 2000; Schowalter 2000a; Feller 2002).”
• Global dung beetle response to tropical forest modification and fragmentation: A quantitative literature review and meta-analysis (2007, background): “As an abundant and diverse component of most ecosystems, insects are key players in many ecosystem processes and their loss can have negative cascading effects throughout entire communities (Coleman and Hendrix, 2000).”
• Biodiversity loss and the taxonomic bottleneck: emerging biodiversity science (2006, background): “, the extirpation and invasion of species) have received a great deal of attention especially as related to the study of ecosystem services (Kellertt 1993; Coleman and Hendrix 2001; Kremen 2005).”
• Effects of Exotic Plant Invasions on Soil Nutrient Cycling Processes (2003, result): “Although these changes in the soil biota are likely to be linked to changes in C dynamics, given the important role of the soil fauna in C and nutrient cycling (Coleman and Hendrix 2000), the issue of C dynamics was not explicitly addressed in any of these studies.”
• Effects of livestock grazing on aboveground insect communities in semi-arid grasslands of southeastern Arizona (2006, background): “In contrast, far fewer studies have examined the effects of livestock grazing on invertebrates, despite the fact that grassland invertebrates comprise an overwhelming proportion of animal biomass and biodiversity, form a major component of terrestrial food webs, and play pivotal roles in ecosystem f”
• Soil management to enhance bacterivore and fungivore nematode populations and their nitrogen mineralisation function (2004, background): “A primary function of microbial grazers in soil food webs is to enhance mineralisation of plant nutrients that are immobilised in the component organisms of detrital food webs (Anderson et al., 1981; Ingham et al., 1985; Hunt et al., 1987; Griffiths, 1994; Moore, 1994; Ferris et al., 1998; Chen and ”
• Soil health in agricultural systems (2008, background): “A wide range of experimental studies have shown the importance of these organisms in regulating the rate of decomposition through the release of nutrients and by stimulating microbial population turnover through their feeding activity (e.g. papers in Coleman & Hendrix (2000)).”
• Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent (2008, background): “…considered in global decomposition models (VEMAP, 1995; Moorhead et al., 1999; Gholz et al., 2000; Lavelle et al., 2004), although conceptually considered to be key drivers of litter decomposition rates (e.g. Wardle, 1995; Lavelle, 1997; Coleman & Hendrix, 2000; Kibblewhite et al., 2008).”