A5089020778- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
Lund University
2015-2024
Skåne University Hospital
2010-2020
Getinge (Sweden)
2020
Institute for Biodiversity
2000-2017
Flagstaff Medical Center
2015
Aarhus University
2009
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2006
Wageningen University & Research
1996
Abstract Soil biodiversity plays a key role in regulating the processes that underpin delivery of ecosystem goods and services terrestrial ecosystems. Agricultural intensification is known to change diversity individual groups soil biota, but less about how affects food web as whole, whether or not these effects may be generalized across regions. We examined webs from grasslands, extensive, intensive rotations four agricultural regions Europe: Sweden, UK , Czech Republic Greece. Effects...
Intensive land use reduces the diversity and abundance of many soil biota, with consequences for processes that they govern ecosystem services these underpin. Relationships between biota have mostly been found in laboratory experiments rarely are field. Here, we quantified, across four countries contrasting climatic conditions Europe, how differences food web composition resulting from systems (intensive wheat rotation, extensive permanent grassland) influence functioning soils deliver....
Summary Plant species differ in their capacity to influence soil organic matter, nutrient availability and the composition of microbial communities. Their influences on properties result net positive or negative feedback effects, which plant performance community composition. For two grassland systems, one a sandy Netherlands chalk United Kingdom, we investigated how individual grown monocultures changed abiotic biotic conditions. Then, determined effects these soils plants same different...
Whether or not communities of microbial eukaryotes are structured in the same way as bacteria is a general and poorly explored question ecology. Here, we investigated this set planktonic lake microbiotas Eastern Antarctica that represent natural community ecology experiment. Most analysed lakes emerged from sea during last 6000 years, giving rise to waterbodies originally contained marine subsequently evolved into habitats ranging freshwater hypersaline. We show habitat diversification has...
We examined the relationship between plant species diversity, productivity and development of soil community during early secondary succession on former arable land across Europe. tested hypothesis that increasing initial diversity enhances biomass production consequently stimulates microbial abundance invertebrates. performed five identical field experiments abandoned in European countries (CZ, NL, SE, SP UK) which allowed us to test our a range climate, other environmental factors varied...
Soils are extremely rich in biodiversity, and soil organisms play pivotal roles supporting terrestrial life, but the role that individual plants plant communities influencing diversity functioning of food webs remains highly debated. Plants, as primary producers providers resources to web, vital importance for composition, structure, communities. However, whether natural completely open immigration emigration differ underneath unknown. In a biodiversity restoration experiment we first...
Reviews of evidence are a vital means summarising growing bodies research. Systematic reviews (SRs) aim to reduce bias and increase reliability when high priority controversial topics. Similar SRs, systematic maps (SMs) were developed in social sciences reliably catalogue on specific subject. Rather than providing answers questions impacts, SMs produce searchable databases studies, along with detailed descriptive information. These (consisting report, database, sometimes geographical...
Summary Agricultural fertilization significantly affects arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal ( AMF ) community composition. However, the functional implications of shifts are unknown, limiting understanding role in agriculture. We assessed composition at four sites managed under same nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizer regimes for 55 yr. also established a glasshouse experiment with soils to investigate –barley Hordeum vulgare nutrient exchange, using carbon 13 C) 33 P isotopic labelling. N...
Abstract Simultaneously enhancing ecosystem services provided by biodiversity below and above ground is recommended to reduce dependence on chemical pesticides mineral fertilisers in agriculture. However, consequences for crop yield have been poorly evaluated. Above ground, increased landscape complexity assumed enhance biological pest control, whereas soil organic carbon a proxy several yield‐supporting services. In field experiment replicated 114 fields across Europe, we found that...
The assessment of effects anthropogenic disturbance on biodiversity (BD) and ecosystem services (ES) their relationships are key priorities the Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity Ecosystem Services. Agricultural landscapes associated BD provide multiple ES it is crucial to understand how between components change along gradients landscape complexity. In this study, we related eight potentials species richness five invertebrate, vertebrate plant taxonomic groups in cereal farming...
Many exemplary projects have demonstrated that Nature-based Solutions (NBS) can contribute to climate change adaptation, but now the challenge is scale up their use. Setting realistic policy goals requires knowing amount of different NBS types fit in urban space and benefits be expected. This research aims assess potential for a full-scale implementation climate-change adaptation European cities, expected co-benefits, how these quantities relate structure cities. We selected three case...
The effect of plant species diversity on productivity and competitive ability was studied in an experiment carried out simultaneously five European countries: Czech Republic (CZ), the Netherlands (NL), Sweden (SE), Spain (SP), United Kingdom (UK). aim to separate ‘chance’ or ‘sampling effect’ (increasing number sown increases probability that a able ‘to do job’ will be included) from complementarity (species‐rich communities are better exploit resources take care ecosystem functions than...
Abstract Questions: How is succession on ex‐arable land affected by sowing high and low diversity mixtures of grassland species as compared to natural succession? long do effects persist? Location: Experimental plots installed in the Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden United Kingdom. Methods: experiment was established land, with five blocks, each containing three 10 m × experimental plots: colonization, a low‐ (four species) high‐diversity (15 seed mixture. Species composition...
Among flowering plants, animals commonly act as pollinators. We showed that fertile moss shoots attract springtails and mites, which in turn carry sperm, thereby enhancing the fertilization process. Previously, of mosses was thought to depend on capacity individual sperm swim through a continuous water layer. The role microarthropods resembles pollinators plants but may be evolutionarily much older because antiquity organism groups involved.