Linking species richness, biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil systems

By D. Coleman, William B. Whitman. 2005

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Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science, Soil Science

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Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead? (2015, background): “Scaling plant-microbe interactions across space Soil communities are diverse and perform a diversity of functions (Coleman and Whitman 2005, Fierer et al. 2012).”
Pasture management clearly affects soil microbial community structure and N-cycling bacteria (2009, background): “…the environmental impact of microbial processes, in particular those associated with production of greenhouse gasses such as N2O and CH4 (Dalal et al., 2003), and increase the biodiversity (biological capacity) of soil biota responsible for key ecosystem functions (Coleman and Whitman, 2005).”
Assessing soil quality under intensive cultivation and tree orchards in Southern Italy (2011, methodology): “Total fungal mycelium was determined by the intersection method with an optical microscope after filtration of a soil–water suspension (1 g of soil in 100mL of distilled water) by membrane filters as described in detail by D’Ascoli et al. (2005). The mass of total mycelia was calculated on the basis”
Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity–function relationships (2011, background): “…can be thousands to millions of species living in a square metre of soil, only a limited subset of organisms contribute to some specific processes (Coleman & Whitman, 2005), in contrast to more general ecosystem functions such as decomposition, respiration and biotic populations, which have been…”
Resource Exchange in the Rhizosphere: Molecular Tools and the Microbial Perspective (2006, background): “How biodiversity affects ecosystem function is a continuing debate (e.g., Coleman & Whitman 2005, Fitter et al. 2005 for comment and review); causal links between the diversity of soil organisms present and variation in soil function are very difficult to establish, in part because rhizosphere…”
Co-variation in soil biodiversity and biogeochemistry in northern and southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (2006, background): “There is great interest in the influence of predator/prey dynamics and invertebrate functional types on bacterial community structure and diversity in all soils, though these relationships have proven very difficult to elucidate (Bakonyi 1989, Coleman & Whitman 2005).”
From peds to paradoxes: linkages between soil biota and their influences on ecological processes. (2008, background): “Molecular probes to examine the species richness of decomposer fungi and bacteria are being steadily improved and should help provide an answer to this apparent conundrum (Coleman and Whitman, 2005).”
Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils (2010, background): “It has been proposed that using natural soil ecosystems of low, and thus tractable, species diversity would be advantageous to understanding biodiversityefunctional relationships in soils (Coleman and Whitman, 2005).”
Earthworms as soil quality indicators in Brazilian no-tillage systems (2013, background): “…was related to earthworm species richness, and higher species richness in a field is a desirable trait for ecosystem resilience and ecosystem services (Coleman and Whitman, 2005), we advocate that NT farming practices should strive to increase both earthworm abundance and species richness.”