Natural forest chronosequence maintains better soil fertility indicators and assemblage of total belowground soil biota than Chinese fir monoculture in subtropical …

W Islam, HSA Saqib, M Tayyab, Z Wang, X Ding… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil biota are critical for services and the functionality of terrestrial ecosystems. Studying the
composition of total belowground soil biota across different ecological scales has become …

Effects of microhabitats and soil conditions on structuring patterns of nematode communities in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) plantation forests under …

Y Kitagami, T Tanikawa, Y Matsuda - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of biotic factors impacted by abiotic conditions on nematode communities is not
fully understood in forest ecosystems. Monoculture forests with low understory diversity …

Long-term conversion of upland to paddy increased SOC content and N availability in a sand dune of Japan

IL Dewi, S Tang, MA Maimunah, E Cantona… - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Land use change driven by anthropogenic activities has greatly affected terrestrial C and N
cycling; however, it remains unclear how dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and …

Nematode community structure along elevation gradient in high altitude vegetation cover of Gangotri National Park (Uttarakhand), India

P Kashyap, S Afzal, AN Rizvi, W Ahmad, VP Uniyal… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The study was undertaken to understand the dynamics of soil nematode communities
association along elevation gradient and associated variables in high-altitude regions of …

Effects of protected areas on soil nematode communities in forests of the North of Portugal

AC Duarte, CA Guerra, C Cano-Díaz, R Zeiss… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Nature conservation policy is mainly concerned with aboveground terrestrial species and
soil biodiversity has been largely ignored, resulting in a lack of information about the …

Stochasticity dominates assembly processes of soil nematode metacommunities on three Asian mountains

ZOU Shuqi, J Adams, YU Zhi, LI Nan, D Kerfahi… - Pedosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Nematodes play an important role in ecosystems; however, very little is known about their
assembly processes and the factors influencing them. We studied nematode communities in …

Elevational patterns of soil nematode diversity, community structure and metabolic footprint in the Trikuta mountains of Northwestern Himalaya

F Choudhary, A Bhardwaj, I Sayeed… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nematodes are an integral part of soil biodiversity and play a vital role in soil nutrient
cycling. The Himalayan mountainous ecosystems are amongst the extreme environments in …

Temperature changes affect multi-trophic interactions among pines, mycorrhizal fungi, and soil nematodes in a microcosm experiment

Y Kitagami, Y Matsuda - Pedobiologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Nematodes serve a key role in soil nutrient cycling by eating bacterial cells and fungal
hyphae. However, little is known about how temperature changes affect multi-trophic …

Taxonomic profiling of individual nematodes isolated from copse soils using deep amplicon sequencing of four distinct regions of the 18S ribosomal RNA gene

H Kenmotsu, K Uchida, Y Hirose, T Eki - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Nematodes are representative soil metazoans with diverged species that play crucial roles
in nutrient recycling in the pedosphere. Qualitative and quantitative information on …