Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological
systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types …

The overall effects of fire on ecosystems are complex, ranging from the reduction or
elimination of aboveground biomass to impacts on belowground physical, chemical and …

Fundamentals of Soil Ecology, 3rd Edition, offers a holistic approach to soil biology and
ecosystem function, providing students and ecosystem researchers with a greater …

Traditional approaches to the study of food webs emphasize the transfer of local primary
productivity in the form of living plant organic matter across trophic levels. However, dead …

The composition of nematode communities (plant-parasitic and free-living) may be used as
bioindicators of soil health or condition because composition correlates well with nitrogen …

Publisher Summary This chapter helps in understanding the role of soil fauna in soil
function. Soils host an extremely diverse community of invertebrates that differ in their …

Nematodes are aquatic organisms that depend on thin water films to live and move within
existing pathways of soil pores of 25–100 μm diameter. Soil nematodes can be a tool for …

Ecologists have long been studying stability in ecosystems by looking at the structuring and
the strengths of trophic interactions in community food webs. In a series of real food webs …

Terrestrial ecologists and soil modelers have traditionally portrayed the inhabitants of soil as
a black box labeled as “soil fauna” or “decomposers or detritivores” assuming that they just …

The effect of disturbance on soil nematode communities was studied in eight treatments
varying in intensity of human intervention at the Kellogg Biological Station Long Term …