Environmental disturbances seem to be increasing in frequency and impact, yet we have
little understanding of the belowground impacts of these events. Soil fauna, while widely …

Earthworms play an essential part in determining the greenhouse-gas balance of soils
worldwide, and their influence is expected to grow over the next decades. They are thought …

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 …

Forests play critical roles in global ecosystem processes and provide numerous services to
society. But forests are increasingly affected by a variety of human influences, especially …

This review describes outcomes of a 2010 horizon-scanning exercise building upon the first
exercise conducted in 2009. The aim of both horizon scans was to identify emerging issues …

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …

It would be an exaggeration to argue that most invasions produce ecosystem impacts, and
the term should be reserved for cases in which many species in an ecosystem are affected …

The phenology of growth in temperate deciduous forests, including the timing of leaf
emergence and senescence, has strong control over ecosystem properties such as …

The biodiversity of soil animals (fauna) is large, and fauna critically affect soil processes by
feeding and fragmenting plant materials and organic substrates. Soil fauna exist in food …