SynthesisBiological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society2020
Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity.
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- Fauna-microbe diversity coupling lost in agricultural soils: Implications from the bacteria hidden in earthworm gut.Fundamental research · 2025Article
- Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
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- Multi-scale beta-diversity patterns in testate amoeba communities: species turnover and nestedness along a latitudinal gradient.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Trophic Position of the White Worm (International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Biodiversity patterns of the coral reef cryptobiota around the Arabian Peninsula.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Trophic resources of the edaphic microarthropods: A worldwide review of the empirical evidence.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Genetic diversity varies with species traits and latitude in predatory soil arthropods (Myriapoda: Chilopoda).Global ecology and biogeography : a journal of macroecology · 2023Article
- Long-Read Sequencing Analysis Revealed the Impact of Forest Conversion on Soil Fungal Diversity in Limu Mountain, Hainan.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Fungal diversities and community assembly processes show different biogeographical patterns in forest and grassland soil ecosystems.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Spatial assortment of soil organisms supports the size-plasticity hypothesis.ISME communications · 2022Article
- Tetrahydroisoquinoline N-methyltransferase fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Community assembly and metaphylogeography of soil biodiversity: Insights from haplotype-level community DNA metabarcoding within an oceanic island.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
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- The influence of endophytes on rice fitness under environmental stresses.Plant molecular biology · 2022Review
- Long-term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Water Deficit History Selects Plant Beneficial Soil Bacteria Differently Under Conventional and Organic Farming.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Soil is one of the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats. Yet, we lack an integrative conceptual framework for understanding the patterns and mechanisms driving soil biodiversity. One of the underlying reasons for our poor understanding of soil biodiversity patterns relates to whether key biodiversity theories (historically developed for aboveground and aquatic organisms) are applicable to patterns of soil biodiversity. Here, we present a systematic literature review to investigate whether and how key biodiversity theories (species-energy relationship, theory of island biogeography, metacommunity theory, niche theory and neutral theory) can explain observed patterns of soil biodiversity. We then discuss two spatial compartments nested within soil at which biodiversity theories can be applied to acknowledge the scale-dependent nature of soil biodiversity.
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