Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils

By M. Bowker, Fernando T. Maestre, C. Escolar. 2010

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

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Guidelines for a graph-theoretic implementation of structural equation modeling (2012, background): “…and Brashares 2012), plant communities (e.g., Weiher 2003, Seabloom et al. 2006, Laughlin 2011, Reich et al. 2012), microbial communities (e.g., Bowker et al. 2010), animal populations (e.g., Janssen et al. 2011, Gimenez et al. 2012), animal communities, (e.g., Anderson et al. 2011, Belovsky…”
Moss-dominated biocrusts increase soil microbial abundance and community diversity and improve soil fertility in semi-arid climates on the Loess Plateau of China (2017, background): “In general, it is believed that biocrusts are important communities for the soil processes and ecosystem functioning (Bowker et al., 2010), and their rehabilitation are important measures for combating land degradation and desertification (Xiao et al.”
Active and total microbial communities in forest soil are largely different and highly stratified during decomposition (2011, background): “Yet, the understanding of how ecosystem functions are influenced by soil biodiversity is far behind our understanding of how aboveground organisms contribute to these functions (Bowker et al., 2010).”
Hydrolase enzyme activities in a successional gradient of biological soil crusts in arid and semi-arid zones (2012, unknown): “Authors such as Bowker et al. (2010) have suggested that the main functions are as follows: a) fixation of C and N; b) participation in the control of stabilization/erosion processes by creating resistence to erosion and involvement in fixation of sediments; c) involvement in the hydrological cycle…”
Testing the effects of diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality using a multivariate model (2015, methodology): “Structural equation models have been used to assess the biodiversity and ecosystem function relationship for single functions (e.g. Grace et al. 2007; Bowker et al. 2010).”
Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern (2012, background): “1Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biologı́a y Geologı́a, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologı́a, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Móstoles, Spain; 2Southwest Biological Science”