Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil

By A. Fitter, C. Gilligan, K. Hollingworth, A. Kleczkowski, R. Twyman, Jon W. Pitchford. 2005

305 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Bowker
2. D. Wall
3. Fernando T. Maestre
4. Peter Convey
5. E. Ayres
6. R. Bardgett
7. C. Escolar
8. Feng Luo

In Plant Science

1. Peter Convey
2. M. Bowker
3. J. Barrett
4. R. Virginia
5. B. Adams
6. P. Maron
7. Feng Luo
8. Jizhong Zhou

In Soil Science

1. D. Wall
2. E. Ayres
3. M. Tibbett
4. David O. Carter
5. D. Yellowlees
6. R. Bardgett
7. B. Adams
8. J. Barrett

Citations in the corpus

• Soil fauna and soil functions: a jigsaw puzzle (2014, methodology): “…taxa with significant functional roles in the ecosystem, but also “redundant taxa” that could have a significant existence by acting as indicators of soil resilience, if under the eventual action of disturbance the soil community composition becomes altered (Lavelle, 1996; Fitter et al., 2005).”
• Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota (2006, background): “Also, while recent initiatives have attempted to characterize a large portion of the soil biological community at a given site (e.g. Fitter et al., 2005), there are still no complete inventories for soil taxa.”
• 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…”
• Functional Molecular Ecological Networks (2010, background): “Microorganisms play critical roles in biogeochemical cycling of C, N, S, P, and various metals, but the precise roles of many microorganisms in these cycles are unknown (31).”
• Cadaver decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems (2006, background): “2005) and the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem function (McCann 2000; Fitter et al. 2005) are at the forefront of ecological research.”
• Phylogenetic structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal community shifts in response to increasing soil fertility (2015, background): “Diverse belowground communities of microorganisms interact with plants and serve as key players in biogeochemical cycling (Fitter et al., 2005; Philippot et al., 2013), but in comparison with that of plant community, relative little is known about the patterns and underlying mechanisms of belowgroun”
• GeoChip: a comprehensive microarray for investigating biogeochemical, ecological and environmental processes (2007, background): “Microbial community sequencing presents a new age in biology, but one of the greatest challenges is how to link genomics, as well as microbial diversity, to ecosystem processes and functions (Zhou et al., 2004; Fitter et al., 2005; Oremland et al., 2005).”
• Rhizosphere fauna: the functional and structural diversity of intimate interactions of soil fauna with plant roots (2009, unknown): “Root-derived carbon rapidly enters the soil food web (Fitter et al. 2005; Leake et al. 2006) and since coupling of the fungal and bacterial energy channels via top predators is thought to confer the extraordinary stability of soil food webs (Rooney et al.”
• Microbial diversity and ecological networks as indicators of environmental quality (2017, background): “Within the biological component, micro-organisms constitute a major part of the genetic patrimony, due to their ubiquity, abundance and their genetic and metabolic diversities, and are the principal actors in the biogeochemical processes (Fitter et al. 2005; Nielsen et al. 2011).”
• Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils (2010, background): “Evidence of a large degree of redundancy and resiliency of function was also observed in a modeling-based study, in which broad functional groups of soil organisms were removed from the soil ecosystem (Hunt and Wall, 2002), and in a reconstruction of a soil community wherein each treatment constitut”
• Decline in a dominant invertebrate species contributes to altered carbon cycling in a low‐diversity soil ecosystem (2008, background): “Such information is essential to develop hypotheses describing the influences of global change on essential ecosystem processes such as carbon (C) cycling (Fitter et al., 2005).”