The Biology of Soil: A Community and Ecosystem Approach

By M. Usher. 2008

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

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The role of litter-feeding macroarthropods in decomposition processes: A reappraisal of common views (2014, background): “Bacteria and fungi are key actors in the decomposition process due to their large biomass, ubiquity, and broad range of enzymatic capabilities (Lavelle and Spain, 2001; Coleman et al., 2004; Bardgett, 2005).”
Influence of plant species and soil conditions on plant–soil feedback in mixed grassland communities (2010, result): “…in soil physical properties of these soils, including texture, pH and moisture status, play as drivers of soil community abundance and structure (Bardgett 2005) This is in agreement with the work of Fierer & Jackson (2006) and Fierer et al. (2009), who found that diversity and richness of soil…”
The influence of below-ground herbivory and defoliation of a legume on nitrogen transfer to neighbouring plants. (2007, background): “Ecologists have long recognized that both above- and below-ground herbivory can have major consequences for primary producers, altering plant community structure and influencing rates of vegetation succession (McNaughton et al . 1989; Brown & Gange 1990; Brown & Gange 1992; Van der Putten, Van Dijk ”
Fungal entomopathogens: new insights on their ecology (2009, background): “Between 10 and 40% of carbon assimilated by a plant is transferred into the soil in the form of exudates, mucilage, sloughed root cells and lysates (Andrews & Harris 2000; Bardgett 2005).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “Hence, a higher diversity of decomposers is likely to produce a higher number of compounds (Bardgett 2005; Eisenhauer 2012; Eisenhauer, Reich, & Scheu 2012).”
Effects of plant diversity on plant biomass production and soil macrofauna in Amazonian pastures (2008, background): “Many studies (Wardle et al., 2004; Bardgett, 2005) have already provided evidence of the close links between vegetation and soil fauna.”
A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food (2011, background): “In addition to reduced abundance, the productivity-based hypothesis suggests that arthropods and other invertebrate prey have become available over increasingly shorter periods, with reductions in the structural complexity of soil rendering soil biota more vulnerable to short-term climatic variation”
Effects of plant species richness and evenness on soil microbial community diversity and function (2010, background): “Such relationships may be driven by the diversity of root exudates and litter chemistry (e.g. Bardgett 2005; Berg and Smalla 2009; Orwin et al. 2006), or through simple mass effects if plant community biomass and productivity is a function of plant species richness or evenness.”
Entomopathogenic fungi as biological controllers: New insights into their virulence and pathogenicity (2012, background): “Between 10 and 40% of the carbon that is assimilated by a plant is transferred into the soil in the form of exudates, mucilage, sloughed root cells and lysates (Andrews and Harris, 2000; Bardgett, 2005).”
Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses (2012, background): “…certain soil biota such as earthworms and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and causes a microbial community shift from fungal- to bacterial-dominated composition, because of both enhanced soil disturbance (Helgason et al., 1998) and increased inputs of easily decomposable resources (Bardgett, 2005).”
Vegetation composition promotes carbon and nitrogen storage in model grassland communities of contrasting soil fertility (2009, background): “Moreover, we also considered the loss ofDONandDOCsimultaneously,which both constitute a significant and often neglected source of C andN loss from soil (Bardgett 2005).”
Testate Amoebae and Nutrient Cycling with Particular Reference to Soils (2010, positive): “Following the work in the 1970s and 1980s studies relevant to the role of testates in nutrient cycling are rare during the 1990s until the PhD work of Dagmar Schröter (Schröter 2001; Schröter et al. 2003). Schröter studied the decomposer systems of four European coniferous forests (mainly Picea abie”
Plant litter diversity increases microbial abundance, fungal diversity, and carbon and nitrogen cycling in a Mediterranean shrubland (2017, background): “Introduction 55 Decomposition of plant material is a key ecosystem function determining the carbon 56 and nitrogen cycles to a great extent (Cadish and Giller, 1997; Bardgett, 2005).”
The influence of vegetation type, soil properties and precipitation on the composition of soil mite and microbial communities at the landscape scale (2010, background): “Hence there is a need for a more thorough exploration of the factors that influence community composition below ground (Bardgett, 2005; Coleman & Whitman, 2005).”
Plant–soil feedbacks: connecting ecosystem ecology and evolution (2016, background): “decomposition, nutrient cycling, predator– prey dynamics) changes soil physico-chemical properties such as the type and concentration of inorganic nutrients, pH or water holding capacity (Bardgett 2005; Ehrenfeld, Ravit & Elgersma 2005; van der Putten et al. 2016), all of which can feedback to impac”
Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity–function relationships (2011, background): “…decades, a number of studies have investigated the potential impacts of declines in soil species richness on ecosystem functioning, and their findings have often differed from above-ground studies (reviewed in Bardgett, 2002, 2005; Mikola et al., 2002; Hättenschwiler et al., 2005; Wardle, 2006).”
Linkages between plant functional composition, fine root processes and potential soil N mineralization rates (2009, background): “Increased root C inputs to the soil may increase soil moisture (Bardgett 2005) or stimulate soil N immobilization, both of which should affect root decomposition rates.”
Biochar in bioenergy cropping systems: impacts on soil faunal communities and linked ecosystem processes (2013, background): “This could have the effect of reducing the rate of soil nutrient cycling, as microbial grazers effectively release nutrients that may otherwise be immobilized in microbial biomass (Bardgett, 2005).”