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1. The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests : a review

Author: Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., Lindahl, Björn D., Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., and Lindahl, Björn D.
Abstract: Boreal forests are frequently subjected to disturbances, including wildfire and clear-cutting. While these disturbances can cause soil carbon (C) losses, the long-term accumulation dynamics of soil C stocks during subsequent stand development is controlled by biological processes related to the balance of net primary production (NPP) and outputs via heterotrophic respiration and leaching, many of which remain poorly understood. We review the biological processes suggested to influence soil C accumulation in boreal forests. Our review indicates that median C accumulation rates following wildfire and clear-cutting are similar (0.15 and 0.20 Mg ha−1 year−1, respectively), however, variation between studies is extremely high. Further, while many individual studies show linear increases in soil C stocks through time after disturbance, there are indications that C stock recovery is fastest early to mid-succession (e.g. 15–80 years) and then slows as forests mature (e.g. >100 years). We indicate that the rapid build-up of soil C in younger stands appears not only driven by higher plant production, but also by a high rate of mycorrhizal hyphal production, and mycorrhizal suppression of saprotrophs. As stands mature, the balance between reductions in plant and mycorrhizal production, increasing plant litter recalcitrance, and ectomycorrhizal decomposers and saprotrophs have been highlighted as key controls on soil C accumulation rates. While some of these controls appear well understood (e.g. temporal patterns in NPP, changes in aboveground litter quality), many others remain research frontiers. Notably, very little data exists describing and comparing successional patterns of root production, mycorrhizal functional traits, mycorrhizal-saprotroph interactions, or C outputs via heterotrophic respiration and dissolved organic C following different disturbances. We argue that these less frequently described controls require attention, as they will be key not only for underst
Published: 2024
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2. The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests : a review

Author: Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., Lindahl, Björn D., Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., and Lindahl, Björn D.
Abstract: Boreal forests are frequently subjected to disturbances, including wildfire and clear-cutting. While these disturbances can cause soil carbon (C) losses, the long-term accumulation dynamics of soil C stocks during subsequent stand development is controlled by biological processes related to the balance of net primary production (NPP) and outputs via heterotrophic respiration and leaching, many of which remain poorly understood. We review the biological processes suggested to influence soil C accumulation in boreal forests. Our review indicates that median C accumulation rates following wildfire and clear-cutting are similar (0.15 and 0.20 Mg ha−1 year−1, respectively), however, variation between studies is extremely high. Further, while many individual studies show linear increases in soil C stocks through time after disturbance, there are indications that C stock recovery is fastest early to mid-succession (e.g. 15–80 years) and then slows as forests mature (e.g. >100 years). We indicate that the rapid build-up of soil C in younger stands appears not only driven by higher plant production, but also by a high rate of mycorrhizal hyphal production, and mycorrhizal suppression of saprotrophs. As stands mature, the balance between reductions in plant and mycorrhizal production, increasing plant litter recalcitrance, and ectomycorrhizal decomposers and saprotrophs have been highlighted as key controls on soil C accumulation rates. While some of these controls appear well understood (e.g. temporal patterns in NPP, changes in aboveground litter quality), many others remain research frontiers. Notably, very little data exists describing and comparing successional patterns of root production, mycorrhizal functional traits, mycorrhizal-saprotroph interactions, or C outputs via heterotrophic respiration and dissolved organic C following different disturbances. We argue that these less frequently described controls require attention, as they will be key not only for underst
Published: 2024
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3. The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests : a review

Author: Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., Lindahl, Björn D., Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., and Lindahl, Björn D.
Abstract: Boreal forests are frequently subjected to disturbances, including wildfire and clear-cutting. While these disturbances can cause soil carbon (C) losses, the long-term accumulation dynamics of soil C stocks during subsequent stand development is controlled by biological processes related to the balance of net primary production (NPP) and outputs via heterotrophic respiration and leaching, many of which remain poorly understood. We review the biological processes suggested to influence soil C accumulation in boreal forests. Our review indicates that median C accumulation rates following wildfire and clear-cutting are similar (0.15 and 0.20 Mg ha−1 year−1, respectively), however, variation between studies is extremely high. Further, while many individual studies show linear increases in soil C stocks through time after disturbance, there are indications that C stock recovery is fastest early to mid-succession (e.g. 15–80 years) and then slows as forests mature (e.g. >100 years). We indicate that the rapid build-up of soil C in younger stands appears not only driven by higher plant production, but also by a high rate of mycorrhizal hyphal production, and mycorrhizal suppression of saprotrophs. As stands mature, the balance between reductions in plant and mycorrhizal production, increasing plant litter recalcitrance, and ectomycorrhizal decomposers and saprotrophs have been highlighted as key controls on soil C accumulation rates. While some of these controls appear well understood (e.g. temporal patterns in NPP, changes in aboveground litter quality), many others remain research frontiers. Notably, very little data exists describing and comparing successional patterns of root production, mycorrhizal functional traits, mycorrhizal-saprotroph interactions, or C outputs via heterotrophic respiration and dissolved organic C following different disturbances. We argue that these less frequently described controls require attention, as they will be key not only for underst
Published: 2024
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4. The biological controls of soil carbon accumulation following wildfire and harvest in boreal forests : a review

Author: Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., Lindahl, Björn D., Gundale, Michael J., Axelsson, E. Petter, Buness, Vincent, Callebaut, Timon, DeLuca, Thomas H., Hupperts, Stefan F., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Peichl, Matthias, Spitzer, Clydecia M., Stangl, Zsofia R., Strengbom, Joachim, Sundqvist, Maja K., Wardle, David A., and Lindahl, Björn D.
Abstract: Boreal forests are frequently subjected to disturbances, including wildfire and clear-cutting. While these disturbances can cause soil carbon (C) losses, the long-term accumulation dynamics of soil C stocks during subsequent stand development is controlled by biological processes related to the balance of net primary production (NPP) and outputs via heterotrophic respiration and leaching, many of which remain poorly understood. We review the biological processes suggested to influence soil C accumulation in boreal forests. Our review indicates that median C accumulation rates following wildfire and clear-cutting are similar (0.15 and 0.20 Mg ha−1 year−1, respectively), however, variation between studies is extremely high. Further, while many individual studies show linear increases in soil C stocks through time after disturbance, there are indications that C stock recovery is fastest early to mid-succession (e.g. 15–80 years) and then slows as forests mature (e.g. >100 years). We indicate that the rapid build-up of soil C in younger stands appears not only driven by higher plant production, but also by a high rate of mycorrhizal hyphal production, and mycorrhizal suppression of saprotrophs. As stands mature, the balance between reductions in plant and mycorrhizal production, increasing plant litter recalcitrance, and ectomycorrhizal decomposers and saprotrophs have been highlighted as key controls on soil C accumulation rates. While some of these controls appear well understood (e.g. temporal patterns in NPP, changes in aboveground litter quality), many others remain research frontiers. Notably, very little data exists describing and comparing successional patterns of root production, mycorrhizal functional traits, mycorrhizal-saprotroph interactions, or C outputs via heterotrophic respiration and dissolved organic C following different disturbances. We argue that these less frequently described controls require attention, as they will be key not only for underst
Published: 2024
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5. Global meta-analysis reveals positive effects of biochar on soil microbial diversity

Author: National Key Research and Development Program (China), National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Scholarship Council, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Gundale, Michael J. [0000-0003-2447-609X], Zou, Xiaoming [0000-0001-9023-3067], Ruan, Honghua [0000-0002-6075-474X], Xu, Wenhuan, Xu, Hanmei, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Gundale, Michael J., Zou, Xiaoming, Ruan, Honghua, National Key Research and Development Program (China), National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Scholarship Council, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Gundale, Michael J. [0000-0003-2447-609X], Zou, Xiaoming [0000-0001-9023-3067], Ruan, Honghua [0000-0002-6075-474X], Xu, Wenhuan, Xu, Hanmei, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Gundale, Michael J., Zou, Xiaoming, and Ruan, Honghua
Abstract: Biochar has gained global attention due to its potential for climate change mitigation and soil quality improvement. Yet, the consequences of biochar additions for soil microbes-the major biotic drivers of soil function-remain unknown across global environmental gradients. We aimed to explore the responses of soil bacterial communities to biochar addition, and further investigate how biochar and soil properties impact these responses. We conducted a global meta-analysis and found that, in general, biochar has a limited impact on the proportion of major bacterial phyla, with only Acidobacteria and Gemmatimonadetes being largely impacted: the relative abundance of Acidobacteria decreased by 14.6%, while that of Gemmatimonadetes increased by 19.8%. Also, the experimental type played a role in shaping the response of microbial community to biochar application. In addition, biochar significantly promoted the diversity of soil bacteria, i.e., genetic richness and diversity. These changes were significantly associated with biochar load, C/N ratio, pyrolysis temperature, biochar pH, as well as soil C/N ratio and pH. We further found that the impacts of biochar on functional diversity, i.e., C substrate richness consumed by soil microbes increased with the biochar load, which might relate to increased genetic richness. Our work suggests that selecting key biochar properties can improve soil quality, microbial function, and climate change mitigation while maintaining the positive impacts of biochar on soil microbial diversity. Further research is needed to link the response of soil microbial composition at the genus level to biochar addition, with microbial functions.
Published: 2023

6. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited.Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality).While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity.Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species compo
Published: 2023
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7. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited.Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality).While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity.Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species compo
Published: 2023
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8. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited. Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality). While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity. Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species co
Published: 2023
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9. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited.Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality).While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity.Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species compo
Published: 2023
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10. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited. Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality). While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity. Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species co
Published: 2023
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11. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited.Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality).While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity.Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species compo
Published: 2023
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12. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited. Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality). While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity. Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species co
Published: 2023
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13. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited. Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality). While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity. Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species co
Published: 2023
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14. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Pérez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibáñez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Björn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited. Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality). While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity. Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species co
Published: 2023
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15. Fire severity as a key determinant of aboveground and belowground biological community recovery in managed even-aged boreal forests

Author: Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Perez-Izquierdo, Leticia, Bengtsson, Jan, Clemmensen, Karina E., Granath, Gustaf, Gundale, Michael J., Ibanez, Theresa S., Lindahl, Bjorn D., Strengbom, Joachim, Taylor, Astrid, Viketoft, Maria, Wardle, David A., and Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte
Abstract: Changes in fire regime of boreal forests in response to climate warming are expected to impact postfire recovery. However, quantitative data on how managed forests sustain and recover from recent fire disturbance are limited.Two years after a large wildfire in managed even-aged boreal forests in Sweden, we investigated how recovery of aboveground and belowground communities, that is, understory vegetation and soil microbial and faunal communities, responded to variation in the severity of soil (i.e., consumption of soil organic matter) and canopy fires (i.e., tree mortality).While fire overall enhanced diversity of understory vegetation through colonization of fire adapted plant species, it reduced the abundance and diversity of soil biota. We observed contrasting effects of tree- and soil-related fire severity on survival and recovery of understory vegetation and soil biological communities. Severe fires that killed overstory Pinus sylvestris promoted a successional stage dominated by the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Polytrichum juniperinum, but reduced regeneration of tree seedlings and disfavored the ericaceous dwarf-shrub Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the grass Deschampsia flexuosa. Moreover, high tree mortality from fire reduced fungal biomass and changed fungal community composition, in particular that of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and reduced the fungivorous soil Oribatida. In contrast, soil-related fire severity had little impact on vegetation composition, fungal communities, and soil animals. Bacterial communities responded to both tree- and soil-related fire severity.Synthesis: Our results 2 years postfire suggest that a change in fire regime from a historically low-severity ground fire regime, with fires that mainly burns into the soil organic layer, to a stand-replacing fire regime with a high degree of tree mortality, as may be expected with climate change, is likely to impact the short-term recovery of stand structure and above- and belowground species compo
Published: 2023
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16. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne, Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J. I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David, Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José Camilo, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dobson, Annise M., Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail T., Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphaël, et al., Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne, Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J. I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David, Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José Camilo, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dobson, Annise M., Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail T., Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphaël, and et al.
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

17. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J.Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J.Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

18. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J. Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean-François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J. Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean-François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

19. European aspen with high compared to low constitutive tannin defenses grow taller in response to anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment

Author: Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Robinson, Kathryn M., Gundale, Michael J., Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Robinson, Kathryn M., and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: Boreal forests receive nitrogen-(N)-enrichment via atmospheric deposition and industrial fertilization. While it is known that N-enrichment can intensify interactions with natural antagonists, it remains poorly understood how genetic variability in plant defense chemistry can affect biotic interactions and height growth in N-enriched environments. We grew replicates of five low- and high-tannin Populus tremula genotypes, respectively, under three N-treatments (ambient, 15, and 150 kg N ha−1 yr−1). We assessed shoot blight occurrence (i.e. symptoms caused by Venturia fungi) during four growing seasons, and tree height growth during the same period. Damage by Venturia spp. increased with N-addition during all years, likely due to enhanced foliar quality. Low–tannin plants showed higher incidences of Venturia infection than high-tannin plants, regardless of the N-input-level. Height responded to an N-by-tannin-group interaction, which occurred because high-tannin plants grew taller than low-tannin plants at the high N-treatment, but not under the other N-levels. This pattern indicates that innate resource investment into tannin production yields a positive effect on growth under N-enriched conditions. Given that N-deposition is increasing globally, our research suggests that further studies are needed to investigate how N-enrichment interacts with plant defense traits globally. Moreover, our research suggests that N-deposition may provide an advantage for well-defended, high-tannin plants; and further, that genetic diversity in plant defense may be a key mechanism by which plant populations respond to this change.
Published: 2021
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20. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne, Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J. I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David, Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José Camilo, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dobson, Annise M., Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail T., Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphaël, et al., Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne, Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J. I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David, Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José Camilo, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dobson, Annise M., Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail T., Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphaël, and et al.
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

21. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J.Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J.Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

22. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J. Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean-François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosín, Darío J. Díaz, Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean-François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

23. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: German Research Foundation, European Commission, Academy of Finland, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), European Research Council, Labex TULIP, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK), Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Tarbiat Modares University, Aurora Organic Dairy, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Wageningen University and Research Centre, International Atomic Energy Agency, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Oklahoma State University, CSIC - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S. Navy, Department of Science and Technology (India), Department of Defense (US), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brasil), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic), Colorado Wheat Research Foundation, Zone Atelier Alpes, Austrian Science Fund, Rentenbank, Welsh Government, European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Science Foundation Ireland, University of Toronto, Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve, Arts and Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, University of Innsbruck, Higher Education Commission (Pakistan), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina), Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Universidad Nacional de Luján, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Fonds de Recherche du Québec, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois, Casey Tree, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, DePaul University, Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT (España), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, McKnight Foundation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (France), Bavarian Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Estonian Science Foundation, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (Ontario), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Australian Research Council, Phillips, Helen, R. P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L. C., Bennett, Joanne, Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, María J. I., Brown, George, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Loss, Scott R., Dobson, Annise M., Dominguez, Anahí, Esteban Duhour, Andrés, Schirrmann, Michael, Eekeren, Nick van, Holmstrup, Martin, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L. C., Marichal, Raphael, Fusilero, Abegail T., Moreno, Gerardo, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Ramirez, Kelly S., Irmler, Ulrich, Minamiya, Yukio, Ivask, Mari, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Motohiro, Hasegawa, Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Hendrik Moos, Jan, Muys, Bart, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Neirynck, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Choi, Amy, Nuzzo, Victoria, Schmidt, Olaf, Rahman, P. Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean-François, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Prietzel, Jörg, Wall, Diana H., Rapoport, Irina B., Imtiaz Rashid, Muhammad, Schröder, Boris, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, Schaik, Loes van, Brose, Ulrich, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Capowiez, Yvan, Szlavecz, Katalin, Russell, David, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Decaëns, Thibaud, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, Valença, Anne W. de, Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Schwarz, Benjamin, Lavelle, Patrick, Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V. Z., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, Putten, Wim H. van der, Rillig, Matthias C., Matula, Radim, Thakur, Madhav P., Clause, Julia, Vries, Franciska T. de, Wardle, David A., Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Hishi, Takuo, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Cluzeau, Daniel, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., German Research Foundation, European Commission, Academy of Finland, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), European Research Council, Labex TULIP, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK), Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Tarbiat Modares University, Aurora Organic Dairy, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Wageningen University and Research Centre, International Atomic Energy Agency, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Oklahoma State University, CSIC - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S. Navy, Department of Science and Technology (India), Department of Defense (US), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brasil), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic), Colorado Wheat Research Foundation, Zone Atelier Alpes, Austrian Science Fund, Rentenbank, Welsh Government, European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Science Foundation Ireland, University of Toronto, Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve, Arts and Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, University of Innsbruck, Higher Education Commission (Pakistan), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina), Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Universidad Nacional de Luján, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Fonds de Recherche du Québec, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois, Casey Tree, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, DePaul University, Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT (España), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, McKnight Foundation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (France), Bavarian Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Estonian Science Foundation, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (Ontario), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Australian Research Council, Phillips, Helen, R. P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L. C., Bennett, Joanne, Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, María J. I., Brown, George, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Loss, Scott R., Dobson, Annise M., Dominguez, Anahí, Esteban Duhour, Andrés, Schirrmann, Michael, Eekeren, Nick van, Holmstrup, Martin, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L. C., Marichal, Raphael, Fusilero, Abegail T., Moreno, Gerardo, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Ramirez, Kelly S., Irmler, Ulrich, Minamiya, Yukio, Ivask, Mari, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Motohiro, Hasegawa, Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Hendrik Moos, Jan, Muys, Bart, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Neirynck, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Choi, Amy, Nuzzo, Victoria, Schmidt, Olaf, Rahman, P. Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean-François, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Prietzel, Jörg, Wall, Diana H., Rapoport, Irina B., Imtiaz Rashid, Muhammad, Schröder, Boris, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, Schaik, Loes van, Brose, Ulrich, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Capowiez, Yvan, Szlavecz, Katalin, Russell, David, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Decaëns, Thibaud, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, Valença, Anne W. de, Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Schwarz, Benjamin, Lavelle, Patrick, Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V. Z., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, Putten, Wim H. van der, Rillig, Matthias C., Matula, Radim, Thakur, Madhav P., Clause, Julia, Vries, Franciska T. de, Wardle, David A., Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Hishi, Takuo, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Cluzeau, Daniel, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, and Burtis, James C.
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

24. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Díaz Cosín, Darío J., Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Bach, Elizabeth M., Bartz, Marie L.C., Bennett, Joanne M., Beugnon, Rémy, Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George G., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Guerra, Carlos A., König-Ries, Birgitta, Krebs, Julia J., Orgiazzi, Alberto, Ramirez, Kelly S., Russell, David J., Schwarz, Benjamin, Wall, Diana H., Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Lavelle, Patrick, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Rillig, Matthias C., Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wardle, David A., Ammer, Christian, Ammer, Sabine, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Baretta, Dilmar, Barkusky, Dietmar, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Brossard, Michel, Burtis, James C., Capowiez, Yvan, Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Choi, Amy, Clause, Julia, Cluzeau, Daniel, Coors, Anja, Crotty, Felicity V., Crumsey, Jasmine M., Dávalos, Andrea, Díaz Cosín, Darío J., Dobson, Annise M., Domínguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fusilero, Abegail, Geraskina, Anna P., Gholami, Shaieste, González, Grizelle, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Branimir K., Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hirth, Jeff R., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Irmler, Ulrich, Ivask, Mari, Jesús, Juan B., Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L., Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kernecker, Maria L., Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Le Cadre, Edith, Lincoln, Noa K., López-Hernández, Danilo, Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Minamiya, Yukio, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Motohiro, Hasegawa, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Ponge, Jean François, Prietzel, Jörg, Rapoport, Irina B., Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Szlavecz, Katalin, Talavera, José Antonio, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Uribe-López, Sheila, de Valença, Anne W., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Webster, Emily R., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Wu, Pengfei, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.
Published: 2021

25. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L.C., Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Van Den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, Van Der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., De Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, Van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez Lopez, Monica, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Mor n-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, Van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, De Valença, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L.C., Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Van Den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, Van Der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., De Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, Van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., Gutiérrez Lopez, Monica, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Mor n-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Mujeeb Rahman, P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel, Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, Van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, De Valença, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Data collated from data provided by original data collectors or from data provided within published articles. The MetaData.csv provides information on each of the original data sources, including bibliographic information about the original article and information on how many sites were sampled. The SiteData.csv gives site-level variables, such as geographic coordinates, the environmental parameters as well as site-level community metrics (species richness, total abundance and total biomass). The SppOccData.csv provides the observation level data - the occurrence, abundance and/or biomass of individual species/morpho-species/life-stage at a particular site. Not every data source contained such observation level data. Metadata information about the variables in each file are provided in the files MetaData_info.csv, SiteData_info.csv and SppOccData_info.csv, respectively. All files provided use the character encoding UTF-8, and missing values are represented by "NA"., This dataset contains key characteristics about the data described in the Data Descriptor Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Contents: 1. human readable metadata summary table in CSV format 2. machine readable metadata file in JSON format ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please remove before publishing. manuscript number: SDATA-20-00920 edit url: https://scientificdata.metadata-creator.com/?id=ag5maWdtZXRhLTIzMDExMXIXCxIKU3VibWlzc2lvbhiAgICgzKucCgw Related publications: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax4851 Please remove before publishing.
Published: 2020

26. Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment enhances soil carbon accumulation by impacting saprotrophs rather than ectomycorrhizal fungal activity

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia, I, Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, Hasselquist, Niles J., Forsmark, Benjamin, Rosenstock, Nicholas P., Wallander, Håkan, Gundale, Michael J., Maaroufi, Nadia, I, Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, Hasselquist, Niles J., Forsmark, Benjamin, Rosenstock, Nicholas P., Wallander, Håkan, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: There is evidence that anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition enhances carbon (C) sequestration in boreal forest soils. However, it is unclear how free-living saprotrophs (bacteria and fungi, SAP) and ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi responses to N addition impact soil C dynamics. Our aim was to investigate how SAP and EM communities are impacted by N enrichment and to estimate whether these changes influence decay of litter and humus. We conducted a long-term experiment in northern Sweden, maintained since 2004, consisting of ambient, low N additions (0, 3, 6, and 12 kg N ha(-1) year(-1)) simulating current N deposition rates in the boreal region, as well as a high N addition (50 kg N ha(-1) year(-1)). Our data showed that long-term N enrichment impeded mass loss of litter, but not of humus, and only in response to the highest N addition treatment. Furthermore, our data showed that EM fungi reduced the mass of N and P in both substrates during the incubation period compared to when only SAP organisms were present. Low N additions had no effect on microbial community structure, while the high N addition decreased fungal and bacterial biomasses and altered EM fungi and SAP community composition. Actinomycetes were the only bacterial SAP to show increased biomass in response to the highest N addition. These results provide a mechanistic understanding of how anthropogenic N enrichment can influence soil C accumulation rates and suggest that current N deposition rates in the boreal region (<= 12 kg N ha(-1) year(-1)) are likely to have a minor impact on the soil microbial community and the decomposition of humus and litter.
Published: 2019
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27. Global distribution of earthworm diversity

Author: Phillips, Helen R. P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L. C., Briones, Maria J. I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaens, Thibaud, Koenig-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jerome, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beausejour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Davalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Dario J., Dominguez, Anahi, Duhour, Andres Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernandez, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, Andre L. C., Fugere, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., Gutierrez Lopez, Monica, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernandez, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Kone, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Moron-Rios, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman, Mujeeb P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Peres, Guenola, Perez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Pineiro, Raul, Ponge, Jean-Francois, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodriguez, Miguel A., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schroeder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, Jose A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valenca, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Inigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R. P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L. C., Briones, Maria J. I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaens, Thibaud, Koenig-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jerome, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beausejour, Robin, Bedano, Jose C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Davalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Dario J., Dominguez, Anahi, Duhour, Andres Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernandez, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, Andre L. C., Fugere, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., Gutierrez Lopez, Monica, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernandez, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Kone, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Moron-Rios, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman, Mujeeb P., Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Peres, Guenola, Perez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Pineiro, Raul, Ponge, Jean-Francois, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodriguez, Miguel A., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schroeder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, Jose A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valenca, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Inigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.
Published: 2019
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28. Global distribution of earthworm diversity

Author: Phillips, Helen R P, Guerra, Carlos A, Bartz, Marie L C, Briones, Maria J I, Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B, van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M, Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H, Ramirez, Kelly S, Rillig, Matthias C, Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P, de Vries, Franciska T, Wall, Diana H, Wardle, David A, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O, Baker, Geoff H, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L, Callaham, Mac A, Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E, Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V, Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B, Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J, Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L C, Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T, Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J, López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K, Hernández, Luis M, Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R, Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N, Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T, Iannone, Basil V, Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M, Kelly, Courtland A, Kernecker, Maria L, Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W, Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T, Lalthanzara, H, Lammel, Daniel R, Lebedev, Iurii M, Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K, Loss, Scott R, Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á, Roth, Alexander M, Rousseau, Guillaume X, Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P, Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M, Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W, Vanek, Steven J, Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A, Warren, Matthew W, Wehr, Nathaniel H, Whalen, Joann K, Wironen, Michael B, Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V, Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K, Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R P, Guerra, Carlos A, Bartz, Marie L C, Briones, Maria J I, Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B, van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M, Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H, Ramirez, Kelly S, Rillig, Matthias C, Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P, de Vries, Franciska T, Wall, Diana H, Wardle, David A, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O, Baker, Geoff H, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L, Callaham, Mac A, Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E, Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V, Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B, Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J, Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L C, Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T, Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J, López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K, Hernández, Luis M, Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R, Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N, Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T, Iannone, Basil V, Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M, Kelly, Courtland A, Kernecker, Maria L, Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W, Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T, Lalthanzara, H, Lammel, Daniel R, Lebedev, Iurii M, Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K, Loss, Scott R, Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á, Roth, Alexander M, Rousseau, Guillaume X, Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P, Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M, Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W, Vanek, Steven J, Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A, Warren, Matthew W, Wehr, Nathaniel H, Whalen, Joann K, Wironen, Michael B, Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V, Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K, and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.
Published: 2019

29. Global distribution of earthworm diversity

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L.C., Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J. Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B. Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L.C., Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J. Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B. Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.
Published: 2019

30. Reply to: Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

Author: Craine, Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin, Boeckx, Pascal, Delzon, Sylvain, Fang, Yunting, Gray, Alan, Guerrieri, Rossella, Gundale, Michael J., Hietz, Peter, Nelson, David M., Peri, Pablo L., Templer, Pamela H., Werner, Christiane, Craine, Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin, Boeckx, Pascal, Delzon, Sylvain, Fang, Yunting, Gray, Alan, Guerrieri, Rossella, Gundale, Michael J., Hietz, Peter, Nelson, David M., Peri, Pablo L., Templer, Pamela H., and Werner, Christiane
Abstract: Replying to Hiltbrunner, E., Körner, C., Meier, R., Braun, S. & Kahmen, A. Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(9), 1285–1286 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0948-5.
Published: 2019

31. Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment enhances soil carbon accumulation by impacting saprotrophs rather than ectomycorrhizal fungal activity

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia, I, Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, Hasselquist, Niles J., Forsmark, Benjamin, Rosenstock, Nicholas P., Wallander, Håkan, Gundale, Michael J., Maaroufi, Nadia, I, Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, Hasselquist, Niles J., Forsmark, Benjamin, Rosenstock, Nicholas P., Wallander, Håkan, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: There is evidence that anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition enhances carbon (C) sequestration in boreal forest soils. However, it is unclear how free-living saprotrophs (bacteria and fungi, SAP) and ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi responses to N addition impact soil C dynamics. Our aim was to investigate how SAP and EM communities are impacted by N enrichment and to estimate whether these changes influence decay of litter and humus. We conducted a long-term experiment in northern Sweden, maintained since 2004, consisting of ambient, low N additions (0, 3, 6, and 12 kg N ha(-1) year(-1)) simulating current N deposition rates in the boreal region, as well as a high N addition (50 kg N ha(-1) year(-1)). Our data showed that long-term N enrichment impeded mass loss of litter, but not of humus, and only in response to the highest N addition treatment. Furthermore, our data showed that EM fungi reduced the mass of N and P in both substrates during the incubation period compared to when only SAP organisms were present. Low N additions had no effect on microbial community structure, while the high N addition decreased fungal and bacterial biomasses and altered EM fungi and SAP community composition. Actinomycetes were the only bacterial SAP to show increased biomass in response to the highest N addition. These results provide a mechanistic understanding of how anthropogenic N enrichment can influence soil C accumulation rates and suggest that current N deposition rates in the boreal region (<= 12 kg N ha(-1) year(-1)) are likely to have a minor impact on the soil microbial community and the decomposition of humus and litter.
Published: 2019
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32. Global distribution of earthworm diversity

Author: Phillips, Helen R P, Guerra, Carlos A, Bartz, Marie L C, Briones, Maria J I, Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B, van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M, Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H, Ramirez, Kelly S, Rillig, Matthias C, Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P, de Vries, Franciska T, Wall, Diana H, Wardle, David A, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O, Baker, Geoff H, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L, Callaham, Mac A, Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E, Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V, Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B, Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J, Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L C, Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T, Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J, López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K, Hernández, Luis M, Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R, Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N, Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T, Iannone, Basil V, Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M, Kelly, Courtland A, Kernecker, Maria L, Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W, Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T, Lalthanzara, H, Lammel, Daniel R, Lebedev, Iurii M, Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K, Loss, Scott R, Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á, Roth, Alexander M, Rousseau, Guillaume X, Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P, Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M, Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W, Vanek, Steven J, Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A, Warren, Matthew W, Wehr, Nathaniel H, Whalen, Joann K, Wironen, Michael B, Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V, Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K, Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R P, Guerra, Carlos A, Bartz, Marie L C, Briones, Maria J I, Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B, van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M, Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H, Ramirez, Kelly S, Rillig, Matthias C, Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P, de Vries, Franciska T, Wall, Diana H, Wardle, David A, Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O, Baker, Geoff H, Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C, Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L, Callaham, Mac A, Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E, Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V, Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B, Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J, Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L C, Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T, Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J, López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K, Hernández, Luis M, Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R, Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N, Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T, Iannone, Basil V, Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M, Kelly, Courtland A, Kernecker, Maria L, Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W, Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T, Lalthanzara, H, Lammel, Daniel R, Lebedev, Iurii M, Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K, Loss, Scott R, Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á, Roth, Alexander M, Rousseau, Guillaume X, Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C, Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P, Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M, Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A, Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W, Vanek, Steven J, Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A, Warren, Matthew W, Wehr, Nathaniel H, Whalen, Joann K, Wironen, Michael B, Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V, Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K, and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.
Published: 2019

33. Global distribution of earthworm diversity

Author: Phillips, Helen R.P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L.C., Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J. Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B. Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Eisenhauer, Nico, Phillips, Helen R.P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L.C., Briones, Maria J.I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas W., Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., van den Hoogen, Johan, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Routh, Devin, Schwarz, Benjamin, Bach, Elizabeth M., Bennett, Joanne, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, König-Ries, Birgitta, Loreau, Michel, Mathieu, Jérôme, Mulder, Christian, van der Putten, Wim H., Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., de Vries, Franciska T., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Cosin, Darío J. Diaz, Dominguez, Anahí, Duhour, Andrés Esteban, van Eekeren, Nick, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L.C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Gholami, Shaieste, Gundale, Michael J., López, Mónica Gutiérrez, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Hernández, Luis M., Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta, Huhta, Veikko, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Lidon, Juan B. Jesus, Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Moos, Jan Hendrik, Moreno, Gerardo, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Nuzzo, Victoria, Rahman P, Mujeeb, Pansu, Johan, Paudel, Shishir, Pérès, Guénola, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Ponge, Jean-François, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Rebollo, Salvador, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, van Schaik, Loes, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, de Valença, Anne W., Vanek, Steven J., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., and Eisenhauer, Nico
Abstract: Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.
Published: 2019

34. Reply to: Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

Author: Craine, Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin, Boeckx, Pascal, Delzon, Sylvain, Fang, Yunting, Gray, Alan, Guerrieri, Rossella, Gundale, Michael J., Hietz, Peter, Nelson, David M., Peri, Pablo L., Templer, Pamela H., Werner, Christiane, Craine, Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin, Boeckx, Pascal, Delzon, Sylvain, Fang, Yunting, Gray, Alan, Guerrieri, Rossella, Gundale, Michael J., Hietz, Peter, Nelson, David M., Peri, Pablo L., Templer, Pamela H., and Werner, Christiane
Abstract: Replying to Hiltbrunner, E., Körner, C., Meier, R., Braun, S. & Kahmen, A. Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(9), 1285–1286 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0948-5.
Published: 2019

35. Global distribution of earthworm diversity

Author: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, European Research Council, Academy of Finland, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Wageningen University and Research Centre, International Atomic Energy Agency, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Irish Government, University of Hawaii, U.S. Navy, Department of Science and Technology (India), Department of Defense (US), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brasil), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Austrian Science Fund, Welsh Government, Science Foundation Ireland, University of Toronto, University of Kentucky, University of Innsbruck, Higher Education Commission (Pakistan), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Grains Research and Development Corporation (Australia), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (France), Phillips, Helen, R. P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L. C., Briones, María J. I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas Ward, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Hoogen, Johan van den, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Rahman, P. Mujeeb, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Imtiaz Rashid, Muhammad, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Pansu, Johan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Rebollo, Salvador, Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Paudel, Shishir, Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Hendrik Moos, Jan, Moreno, Gerardo, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Pérès, Guénola, Nuzzo, Victoria, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Routh, Devin, Ponge, Jean-François, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, Schaik, Loes van, Loreau, Michel, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Schwarz, Benjamin, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Mathieu, Jérôme, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Valença, Anne W. de, Vanek, Steven J., Bach, Elizabeth M., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Mulder, Christian, Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V. Z., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Bennett, Joanne, Eisenhauer, Nico, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Putten, Wim H. van der, König-Ries, Birgitta, Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., Vries, Franciska T. de, Gundale, Michael J., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dominguez, Anahí, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Esteban Duhour, Andrés, Eekeren, Nick van, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L. C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Hernández, Luis M., Gholami, Shaieste, Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., Holmstrup, Martin, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, European Research Council, Academy of Finland, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Slovak Research and Development Agency, Wageningen University and Research Centre, International Atomic Energy Agency, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Irish Government, University of Hawaii, U.S. Navy, Department of Science and Technology (India), Department of Defense (US), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brasil), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Austrian Science Fund, Welsh Government, Science Foundation Ireland, University of Toronto, University of Kentucky, University of Innsbruck, Higher Education Commission (Pakistan), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Grains Research and Development Corporation (Australia), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (France), Phillips, Helen, R. P., Guerra, Carlos A., Bartz, Marie L. C., Briones, María J. I., Brown, George, Crowther, Thomas Ward, Ferlian, Olga, Gongalsky, Konstantin B., Hoogen, Johan van den, Krebs, Julia, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Hopfensperger, Kristine N., Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza, Huhta, Veikko, Rahman, P. Mujeeb, Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Iannone III, Basil V., Iordache, Madalina, Joschko, Monika, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Kanianska, Radoslava, Imtiaz Rashid, Muhammad, Keith, Aidan M., Kelly, Courtland A., Kernecker, Maria L., Klaminder, Jonatan, Pansu, Johan, Koné, Armand W., Kooch, Yahya, Kukkonen, Sanna T., Lalthanzara, H., Lammel, Daniel R., Rebollo, Salvador, Lebedev, Iurii M., Li, Yiqing, Jesus Lidon, Juan B., Lincoln, Noa K., Loss, Scott R., Paudel, Shishir, Marichal, Raphael, Matula, Radim, Hendrik Moos, Jan, Moreno, Gerardo, Rodeiro-Iglesias, Javier, Morón-Ríos, Alejandro, Muys, Bart, Neirynck, Johan, Norgrove, Lindsey, Novo, Marta, Nuutinen, Visa, Pérès, Guénola, Nuzzo, Victoria, Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo, Piñeiro, Raúl, Routh, Devin, Ponge, Jean-François, Rodríguez, Miguel Á., Roth, Alexander M., Rousseau, Guillaume X., Rozen, Anna, Sayad, Ehsan, Schaik, Loes van, Loreau, Michel, Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Schirrmann, Michael, Schmidt, Olaf, Schröder, Boris, Schwarz, Benjamin, Seeber, Julia, Shashkov, Maxim P., Singh, Jaswinder, Smith, Sandy M., Steinwandter, Michael, Mathieu, Jérôme, Talavera, José A., Trigo, Dolores, Tsukamoto, Jiro, Valença, Anne W. de, Vanek, Steven J., Bach, Elizabeth M., Virto, Iñigo, Wackett, Adrian A., Warren, Matthew W., Wehr, Nathaniel H., Mulder, Christian, Whalen, Joann K., Wironen, Michael B., Wolters, Volkmar, Zenkova, Irina V. Z., Zhang, Weixin, Cameron, Erin K., Bennett, Joanne, Eisenhauer, Nico, Brose, Ulrich, Decaëns, Thibaud, Putten, Wim H. van der, König-Ries, Birgitta, Ramirez, Kelly S., Rillig, Matthias C., Russell, David, Rutgers, Michiel, Thakur, Madhav P., Vries, Franciska T. de, Gundale, Michael J., Wall, Diana H., Wardle, David A., Arai, Miwa, Ayuke, Fredrick O., Baker, Geoff H., Beauséjour, Robin, Bedano, José C., Birkhofer, Klaus, Blanchart, Eric, Blossey, Bernd, Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Bolger, Thomas, Bradley, Robert L., Callaham, Mac A., Capowiez, Yvan, Caulfield, Mark E., Choi, Amy, Crotty, Felicity V., Dávalos, Andrea, Diaz Cosin, Darío J., Dominguez, Anahí, Hackenberger, Davorka K., Esteban Duhour, Andrés, Eekeren, Nick van, Emmerling, Christoph, Falco, Liliana B., Fernández, Rosa, Fonte, Steven J., Fragoso, Carlos, Franco, André L. C., Fugère, Martine, Fusilero, Abegail T., Hernández, Luis M., Gholami, Shaieste, Hishi, Takuo, Holdsworth, Andrew R., and Holmstrup, Martin
Abstract: Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.
Published: 2019

36. Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

Author: Craine, Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin, Aranibar, Julieta, Bauters, Marijn, Boeckx, Pascal, Crowley, Brooke E., Dawes, Melissa A., Delzon, Sylvain, Fajardo, Alex, Fang, Yunting, Fujiyoshi, Lei, Gray, Alan, Guerrieri, Rossella, Gundale, Michael J., Hawke, David J., Hietz, Peter, Jonard, Mathieu, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Kenzo, Tanaka, Makarov, Mikhail, Marañón-Jiménez, Sara, McGlynn, Terrence P., McNeil, Brenden E., Mosher, Stella G., Nelson, David M., Peri, Pablo L., Roggy, Jean Christophe, Sanders-DeMott, Rebecca, Song, Minghua, Szpak, Paul, Templer, Pamela H., Van der Colff, Dewidine, Werner, Christiane, Xu, Xingliang, Yang, Yang, Yu, Guirui, Zmudczyńska-Skarbek, Katarzyna, Craine, Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin, Aranibar, Julieta, Bauters, Marijn, Boeckx, Pascal, Crowley, Brooke E., Dawes, Melissa A., Delzon, Sylvain, Fajardo, Alex, Fang, Yunting, Fujiyoshi, Lei, Gray, Alan, Guerrieri, Rossella, Gundale, Michael J., Hawke, David J., Hietz, Peter, Jonard, Mathieu, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Kenzo, Tanaka, Makarov, Mikhail, Marañón-Jiménez, Sara, McGlynn, Terrence P., McNeil, Brenden E., Mosher, Stella G., Nelson, David M., Peri, Pablo L., Roggy, Jean Christophe, Sanders-DeMott, Rebecca, Song, Minghua, Szpak, Paul, Templer, Pamela H., Van der Colff, Dewidine, Werner, Christiane, Xu, Xingliang, Yang, Yang, Yu, Guirui, and Zmudczyńska-Skarbek, Katarzyna
Abstract: Human societies depend on an Earth system that operates within a constrained range of nutrient availability, yet the recent trajectory of terrestrial nitrogen (N) availability is uncertain. Examining patterns of foliar N concentrations and isotope ratios (δ15N) from more than 43,000 samples acquired over 37 years, here we show that foliar N concentration declined by 9% and foliar δ15N declined by 0.6–1.6‰. Examining patterns across different climate spaces, foliar δ15N declined across the entire range of mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation tested. These results suggest declines in N supply relative to plant demand at the global scale. In all, there are now multiple lines of evidence of declining N availability in many unfertilized terrestrial ecosystems, including declines in δ15N of tree rings and leaves from herbarium samples over the past 75–150 years. These patterns are consistent with the proposed consequences of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and longer growing seasons. These declines will limit future terrestrial carbon uptake and increase nutritional stress for herbivores.
Published: 2018

37. Nutrient optimization of tree growth alters structure and function of boreal soil food webs

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia, I, Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbet H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, Meunier, Cedric L., Maaroufi, Nadia, I, Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbet H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, and Meunier, Cedric L.
Abstract: Nutrient optimization has been proposed as a way to increase boreal forest production, and involves chronic additions of liquid fertilizer with amounts of micro- and macro-nutrients adjusted annually to match tree nutritional requirements. We used a short-term (maintained since 2007) and a long-term (maintained since 1987) fertilization experiment in northern Sweden, in order to understand nutrient optimization effects on soil microbiota and mesofauna, and to explore the relationships between plant litter and microbial elemental stoichiometry. Soil microbes, soil fauna, and aboveground litter were collected from the control plots, and short- and long-term nutrient optimization plots. Correlation analyses revealed no relationships between microbial biomass and litter nutrient ratios. Litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios declined in response to both optimization treatments; while only microbial C:P ratios declined in response to long-term nutrient optimization. Further, we found that both short- and long-term optimization treatments decreased total microbial, fungal, and bacterial PLFA biomass and shifted the microbial community structure towards a lower fungi:bacterial ratio. In contrast, abundances of most fungal- and bacterial-feeding soil biota were little affected by the nutrient optimization treatments. However, abundance of hemi-edaphic Collembola declined in response to the long-term nutrient optimization treatment. The relative abundances (%) of fungal-feeding and plant-feeding nematodes, respectively, declined and increased in response to both short-term and long-term treatments; bacterial-feeding nematodes increased relative to fungal feeders. Overall, our results demonstrate that long-term nutrient optimization aiming to increase forest production decreases litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios, microbial C:P ratios and fungal biomass, whereas higher trophic levels are less affected.
Published: 2018
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38. Nutrient optimization of tree growth alters structure and function of boreal soil food webs

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia I., Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbet H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, Meunier, Cédric L., Maaroufi, Nadia I., Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbet H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, and Meunier, Cédric L.
Abstract: Nutrient optimization has been proposed as a way to increase boreal forest production, and involves chronic additions of liquid fertilizer with amounts of micro- and macro-nutrients adjusted annually to match tree nutritional requirements. We used a short-term (maintained since 2007) and a long-term (maintained since 1987) fertilization experiment in northern Sweden, in order to understand nutrient optimization effects on soil microbiota and mesofauna, and to explore the relationships between plant litter and microbial elemental stoichiometry. Soil microbes, soil fauna, and aboveground litter were collected from the control plots, and short- and long-term nutrient optimization plots. Correlation analyses revealed no relationships between microbial biomass and litter nutrient ratios. Litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios declined in response to both optimization treatments; while only microbial C:P ratios declined in response to long-term nutrient optimization. Further, we found that both short- and long-term optimization treatments decreased total microbial, fungal, and bacterial PLFA biomass and shifted the microbial community structure towards a lower fungi:bacterial ratio. In contrast, abundances of most fungal- and bacterial-feeding soil biota were little affected by the nutrient optimization treatments. However, abundance of hemi-edaphic Collembola declined in response to the long-term nutrient optimization treatment. The relative abundances (%) of fungal-feeding and plant-feeding nematodes, respectively, declined and increased in response to both short-term and long-term treatments; bacterial-feeding nematodes increased relative to fungal feeders. Overall, our results demonstrate that long-term nutrient optimization aiming to increase forest production decreases litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios, microbial C:P ratios and fungal biomass, whereas higher trophic levels are less affected.
Published: 2018
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39. Nutrient optimization of tree growth alters structure and function of boreal soil food webs

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia I., Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbet H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, Meunier, Cédric L., Maaroufi, Nadia I., Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbet H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, and Meunier, Cédric L.
Abstract: Nutrient optimization has been proposed as a way to increase boreal forest production, and involves chronic additions of liquid fertilizer with amounts of micro- and macro-nutrients adjusted annually to match tree nutritional requirements. We used a short-term (maintained since 2007) and a long-term (maintained since 1987) fertilization experiment in northern Sweden, in order to understand nutrient optimization effects on soil microbiota and mesofauna, and to explore the relationships between plant litter and microbial elemental stoichiometry. Soil microbes, soil fauna, and aboveground litter were collected from the control plots, and short- and long-term nutrient optimization plots. Correlation analyses revealed no relationships between microbial biomass and litter nutrient ratios. Litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios declined in response to both optimization treatments; while only microbial C:P ratios declined in response to long-term nutrient optimization. Further, we found that both short- and long-term optimization treatments decreased total microbial, fungal, and bacterial PLFA biomass and shifted the microbial community structure towards a lower fungi:bacterial ratio. In contrast, abundances of most fungal- and bacterial-feeding soil biota were little affected by the nutrient optimization treatments. However, abundance of hemi-edaphic Collembola declined in response to the long-term nutrient optimization treatment. The relative abundances (%) of fungal-feeding and plant-feeding nematodes, respectively, declined and increased in response to both short-term and long-term treatments; bacterial-feeding nematodes increased relative to fungal feeders. Overall, our results demonstrate that long-term nutrient optimization aiming to increase forest production decreases litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios, microbial C:P ratios and fungal biomass, whereas higher trophic levels are less affected.
Published: 2018
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40. Anthropogenic deposition of heavy metals and phosphorus may reduce biological N2 fixation in boreal forest mosses

Author: Scott, Dalton L., Bradley, Robert L., Bellenger, Jean-Philippe, Houle, Daniel, Gundale, Michael J., Rousk, Kathrin, DeLuca, Thomas H., Scott, Dalton L., Bradley, Robert L., Bellenger, Jean-Philippe, Houle, Daniel, Gundale, Michael J., Rousk, Kathrin, and DeLuca, Thomas H.
Published: 2018

41. Nutrient optimization of tree growth alters structure and function of boreal soil food webs

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia, Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbeth H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, Meunier, Cédric L., Maaroufi, Nadia, Palmqvist, Kristin, Bach, Lisbeth H., Bokhorst, Stef, Liess, Antonia, Gundale, Michael J., Kardol, Paul, Nordin, Annika, and Meunier, Cédric L.
Abstract: Nutrient optimization has been proposed as a way to increase boreal forest production, and involves chronic additions of liquid fertilizer with amounts of micro- and macro-nutrients adjusted annually to match tree nutritional requirements. We used a short-term (maintained since 2007) and a long-term (maintained since 1987) fertilization experiment in northern Sweden, in order to understand nutrient optimization effects on soil microbiota and mesofauna, and to explore the relationships between plant litter and microbial elemental stoichiometry. Soil microbes, soil fauna, and aboveground litter were collected from the control plots, and short- and long-term nutrient optimization plots. Correlation analyses revealed no relationships between microbial biomass and litter nutrient ratios. Litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios declined in response to both optimization treatments; while only microbial C:P ratios declined in response to long-term nutrient optimization. Further, we found that both short- and long-term optimization treatments decreased total microbial, fungal, and bacterial PLFA biomass and shifted the microbial community structure towards a lower fungi:bacterial ratio. In contrast, abundances of most fungal- and bacterial-feeding soil biota were little affected by the nutrient optimization treatments. However, abundance of hemi-edaphic Collembola declined in response to the long-term nutrient optimization treatment. The relative abundances (%) of fungal-feeding and plant-feeding nematodes, respectively, declined and increased in response to both short-term and long-term treatments; bacterial-feeding nematodes increased relative to fungal feeders. Overall, our results demonstrate that long-term nutrient optimization aiming to increase forest production decreases litter C:N, C:P and N:P ratios, microbial C:P ratios and fungal biomass, whereas higher trophic levels are less affected. © 2018 Elsevier B.V., Funding: the Center for Environmental Research in Umeå (CMF; grant number: CMF1122373) and the Swedish Research Council (FORMAS; grant number: 2010-67).
Published: 2018
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42. Aspen phenylpropanoid genes’ expression levels correlate with genets’ tannin richness and vary both in responses to soil nitrogen and associations with phenolic profiles

Author: Decker, Vicki Huizu, Bandau, Franziska, Gundale, Michael J., Cole, Christopher T., Albrectsen, Benedicte R., Decker, Vicki Huizu, Bandau, Franziska, Gundale, Michael J., Cole, Christopher T., and Albrectsen, Benedicte R.
Abstract: Condensed tannin (CT) contents of European aspen (Populus tremula L.) vary among genotypes, and increases in nitrogen (N) availability generally reduce plants’ tannin production in favor of growth, through poorly understood mechanisms. We hypothesized that intrinsic tannin production rates may co-vary with gene expression responses to soil N and resource allocation within the phenylpropanoid pathway (PPP). Thus, we examined correlations between soil N levels and both expression patterns of eight PPP genes (measured by quantitative-reverse transcription PCR) and foliar phenolic compounds (measured by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry) in young aspen genets with intrinsically extreme CT levels. Monitored phenolics included salicinoids, lignins, flavones, flavonols, CT precursors and CTs. The PPP genes were consistently expressed more strongly in high-CT trees. Low N supplements reduced expression of genes throughout the PPP in all genets, while high N doses restored expression of genes at the beginning and end of the pathway. These PPP changes were not reflected in pools of tannin precursors, but varying correlations between gene expression and foliar phenolic pools were detected in young and mature leaves, suggesting that processes linking gene expression and the resulting phenolics vary spatially and temporally. Precursor fluxes suggested that CT-related metabolic rate or sink controls are linked to intrinsic carbon allocation strategies associated with N responses. Overall, we found more negative correlations (indicative of allocation trade-offs) between PPP gene expression and phenolic products following N additions in low-CT plants than in high-CT plants. The tannin-related expression dynamics suggest that, in addition to defense, relative tannin levels may also be indicative of intraspecific variations in the way aspen genets respond to soil fertility.
Published: 2017
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43. Genotypic variability in Populus tremula L. affects how anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment influences litter decomposition

Author: Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Julkunen-Tiitto, Riitta, Gundale, Michael J., Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Julkunen-Tiitto, Riitta, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: Boreal forests can receive substantial nitrogen (N) enrichment via atmospheric N deposition and industrial forest fertilization. While it is known that N enrichment can impact ecosystem properties, such as litter decomposition, it remains poorly understood how genetic variability within plant species modifies these impacts. We grew replicates of ten Populus tremula L. genotypes (GTs) under 3 N conditions; ambient, and levels representing atmospheric N deposition and industrial forest fertilization. We measured leaf and litter physical and chemical traits, and conducted a litter decomposition assay. Leaf traits varied due to N treatment, GT, and constitutive tannin levels. Leaf traits were in some cases correlated with litter traits, and decomposition was influenced by single and interactive effects of N and GT. Nitrogen addition unexpectedly decelerated decomposition, potentially due to changes in specific leaf area (SLA). Variation in decomposition rates among the GTs was best explained by their differences in SLA, and lignin:N ratio. Nitrogen addition also caused a shift in which traits most strongly influenced decomposition. Our findings highlight that the considerable diversity present in tree species can have a strong influence on ecosystem processes, such as decomposition, and how these processes respond to environmental change.
Published: 2017
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44. Nitrogen enrichment impacts on boreal litter decomposition are driven by changes in soil microbiota rather than litter quality

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia I., Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, Gundale, Michael J., Maaroufi, Nadia I., Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: In nitrogen (N) limited boreal forests, N enrichment can impact litter decomposition by affecting litter quality and by changing the soil environment where litter decomposes. We investigated the importance of litter quality and soil factors on litter decomposition using a 2-year reciprocal transplant experiment for Picea abies needle litter, derived from plots subjected to 17 years of N addition, including control, low and high N treatments (ambient, 12.5 and 50 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1), respectively). Our data show that changes in soil factors were the main pathway through which N impacted litter decomposition, with rates reduced by approximate to 15% when placed in high N relative to control plots, regardless of litter origin. Litter decomposition was correlated to soil microbiota, with Picea abies litter decomposition positively correlated with gram negative and fungal functional groups. Our results suggest that previous findings of increase soil C accumulation in response to N deposition is likely to occur as a result of changes in soil microbiota rather than altered litter quality.
Published: 2017
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45. Genotypic variability in Populus tremula L. affects how anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment influences litter decomposition

Author: Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Julkunen-Tiitto, Riitta, Gundale, Michael J., Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Julkunen-Tiitto, Riitta, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: Boreal forests can receive substantial nitrogen (N) enrichment via atmospheric N deposition and industrial forest fertilization. While it is known that N enrichment can impact ecosystem properties, such as litter decomposition, it remains poorly understood how genetic variability within plant species modifies these impacts. We grew replicates of ten Populus tremula L. genotypes (GTs) under 3 N conditions; ambient, and levels representing atmospheric N deposition and industrial forest fertilization. We measured leaf and litter physical and chemical traits, and conducted a litter decomposition assay. Leaf traits varied due to N treatment, GT, and constitutive tannin levels. Leaf traits were in some cases correlated with litter traits, and decomposition was influenced by single and interactive effects of N and GT. Nitrogen addition unexpectedly decelerated decomposition, potentially due to changes in specific leaf area (SLA). Variation in decomposition rates among the GTs was best explained by their differences in SLA, and lignin:N ratio. Nitrogen addition also caused a shift in which traits most strongly influenced decomposition. Our findings highlight that the considerable diversity present in tree species can have a strong influence on ecosystem processes, such as decomposition, and how these processes respond to environmental change.
Published: 2017
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46. Nitrogen enrichment impacts on boreal litter decomposition are driven by changes in soil microbiota rather than litter quality

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia I., Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, Gundale, Michael J., Maaroufi, Nadia I., Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: In nitrogen (N) limited boreal forests, N enrichment can impact litter decomposition by affecting litter quality and by changing the soil environment where litter decomposes. We investigated the importance of litter quality and soil factors on litter decomposition using a 2-year reciprocal transplant experiment for Picea abies needle litter, derived from plots subjected to 17 years of N addition, including control, low and high N treatments (ambient, 12.5 and 50 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1), respectively). Our data show that changes in soil factors were the main pathway through which N impacted litter decomposition, with rates reduced by approximate to 15% when placed in high N relative to control plots, regardless of litter origin. Litter decomposition was correlated to soil microbiota, with Picea abies litter decomposition positively correlated with gram negative and fungal functional groups. Our results suggest that previous findings of increase soil C accumulation in response to N deposition is likely to occur as a result of changes in soil microbiota rather than altered litter quality.
Published: 2017
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47. Genotypic variability in Populus tremula L. affects how anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment influences litter decomposition

Author: Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Julkunen-Tiitto, Riitta, Gundale, Michael J., Bandau, Franziska, Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber, Julkunen-Tiitto, Riitta, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: Boreal forests can receive substantial nitrogen (N) enrichment via atmospheric N deposition and industrial forest fertilization. While it is known that N enrichment can impact ecosystem properties, such as litter decomposition, it remains poorly understood how genetic variability within plant species modifies these impacts. We grew replicates of ten Populus tremula L. genotypes (GTs) under 3 N conditions; ambient, and levels representing atmospheric N deposition and industrial forest fertilization. We measured leaf and litter physical and chemical traits, and conducted a litter decomposition assay. Leaf traits varied due to N treatment, GT, and constitutive tannin levels. Leaf traits were in some cases correlated with litter traits, and decomposition was influenced by single and interactive effects of N and GT. Nitrogen addition unexpectedly decelerated decomposition, potentially due to changes in specific leaf area (SLA). Variation in decomposition rates among the GTs was best explained by their differences in SLA, and lignin:N ratio. Nitrogen addition also caused a shift in which traits most strongly influenced decomposition. Our findings highlight that the considerable diversity present in tree species can have a strong influence on ecosystem processes, such as decomposition, and how these processes respond to environmental change.
Published: 2017
Full Text: View/download PDF

48. Nitrogen enrichment impacts on boreal litter decomposition are driven by changes in soil microbiota rather than litter quality

Author: Maaroufi, Nadia I., Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, Gundale, Michael J., Maaroufi, Nadia I., Nordin, Annika, Palmqvist, Kristin, and Gundale, Michael J.
Abstract: In nitrogen (N) limited boreal forests, N enrichment can impact litter decomposition by affecting litter quality and by changing the soil environment where litter decomposes. We investigated the importance of litter quality and soil factors on litter decomposition using a 2-year reciprocal transplant experiment for Picea abies needle litter, derived from plots subjected to 17 years of N addition, including control, low and high N treatments (ambient, 12.5 and 50 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1), respectively). Our data show that changes in soil factors were the main pathway through which N impacted litter decomposition, with rates reduced by approximate to 15% when placed in high N relative to control plots, regardless of litter origin. Litter decomposition was correlated to soil microbiota, with Picea abies litter decomposition positively correlated with gram negative and fungal functional groups. Our results suggest that previous findings of increase soil C accumulation in response to N deposition is likely to occur as a result of changes in soil microbiota rather than altered litter quality.
Published: 2017
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49. Soil handling methods should be selected based on research questions and goals: Letters

Author: Gundale, Michael J., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Van der Putten, Wim H., Lucas, Richard W., Gundale, Michael J., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Van der Putten, Wim H., and Lucas, Richard W.
Published: 2017

50. Soil handling methods should be selected based on research questions and goals: Letters

Author: Gundale, Michael J., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Van der Putten, Wim H., Lucas, Richard W., Gundale, Michael J., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Van der Putten, Wim H., and Lucas, Richard W.
Published: 2017

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