The influence of biotic interactions on soil biodiversity.

By David A. Wardle. Ecology Letters, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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The effects of substrate composition, quantity, and diversity on microbial activity (2010, background): “…C availability (Melillo et al. 2002; McLauchlan and Hobbie 2004), and the potential competitive interactions occurring between microbial groups (Wardle 2006), the increase in glucosidase activity in response to glucose additions may be a result of glucose effects on microbial community…”
Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes. (2008, positive): “Plant trait composition may influence soil decomposer diversity through the diversity of substrates and habitats they provide (Porazinska et al. 2003), and decomposer diversity in turn can affect soil carbon cycling through functional complementarity (Hättenschwiler et al. 2005; Wardle 2006).”
Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long‐term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina (2008, background): “2006; Wardle 2006) but is yet to be demonstrated explicitly in intact ecosystems.”
Experimental plant invasion reduces arthropod abundance and richness across multiple trophic levels (2010, background): “…plant decreases native plant species abundance and richness, as does M. vimineum (Flory and Clay 2009, 2010), the reduction in the native litter and the growing amount of non-native litter may alter the decomposer community, with consequences for the ecosystem (Mayer et al. 2005, Wardle 2006).”
Light, earthworms, and soil resources as predictors of diversity of 10 soil invertebrate groups across monocultures of 14 tree species (2016, neutral): “Previous studies indicate that two general factors are most likely to mediate the effect of plants on soil animal diversity: resource availability and resource diversity (Hooper et al., 2000; Wardle, 2006).”
A brown‐world cascade in the dung decomposer food web of an alpine meadow: effects of predator interactions and warming (2011, background): “…studies on detritus-based food webs have suggested that the direction and magnitude of the predator effect on lower trophic levels is variable (positive, negative, or neutral) and mostly minor in both soil and foliar detritus food webs (De Ruiter et al. 1995, Wardle et al. 2004, Wardle 2006).”
The influence of vegetation type, soil properties and precipitation on the composition of soil mite and microbial communities at the landscape scale (2010, background): “Several authors have suggested that vegetation type is a major factor in structuring communities of soil organisms at landscape scales (e.g. Ettema & Wardle, 2002; Wardle, 2006).”
Soil organic matter availability and climate drive latitudinal patterns in bacterial diversity from tropical to cold temperate forests (2018, background): “…leaves with higher C/N ratios are decomposed more slowly than those with a low C/N ratio, likely due to reduced nitrogen availability and, consequently, lower bacterial diversification (Kelly et al., 2010) or the promotion of resource partitioning among the component soil organisms (Wardle, 2006).”
Microbial communities and their relevance for ecosystem models: Decomposition as a case study (2010, background): “Certain groups of fungi and bacteria can only persist when simple compounds are liberated by other groups of microbes targeting recalcitrant compounds such as lignin (Frankland, 1969; Wardle, 2006).”
No ‘home’ versus ‘away’ effects of decomposition found in a grassland–forest reciprocal litter transplant study (2011, background): “Presumably, stimulation is a consequence of litter trait complementarity: high quality substrates may provide fuel to assist the decomposition of more recalcitrant litter, while the latter may provide greater structure or refuges and therefore access for a greater abundance or diversity of decompose”
Species traits as drivers of food web structure (2018, background): “Combined together, low resource competition and opportunistic feeding promote a high diversity of organisms and a very strong body size structure (Wardle 2006).”
Soil fauna feeding activity in temperate grassland soils increases with legume and grass species richness (2011, background): “Wardle (2005, 2006) emphasizes that specific functional traits of plant species are the major determinants of interactions between soil fauna and plants.”
Biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions in an organic farmscape. (2010, background): “The diversity of substrates from different life forms of plants,with different functional traits, in theory should result in a diversity of belowground soil organisms (Hooper et al., 2000; Wardle, 2006).”