Abstract. The central importance of soil for the functioning terrestrial systems is increasingly recognized. Critically relevant water quality, climate control, nutrient cycling and biodiversity, provides more functions than just basis agricultural production. Nowadays, under pressure as a limited resource production food, energy raw materials. This has led to an increasing demand concepts assessing so that they can be adequately considered in decision-making aimed at sustainable management....

Soils play a key role for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Thus, soils are essential human society not only because they form basis production food. This has been recognized since long and during last three decades need to establish methods evaluate ability provide soil functions moved towards top agenda in science. Quantitative evaluation schemes indispensable adequately include into strategies reach sustainable development targets. In this paper we build upon existing approaches...

Abstract Soil fauna plays an essential role in agricultural productivity as it mediates nutrient cycling and soil organic matter dynamics, alters physicochemical properties supports plant growth. Nitrogen fertilization may have a positive or negative influence on manner that ecosystem functioning, but these links not yet been quantified. We present the results of global meta-analysis available literature data effects N taxonomic ecological groups fauna. Our show increases density...

Summary 1. Model analyses show that the stability of population dynamics and food web persistence increase with strength interference competition. Despite this critical importance for community stability, little is known about how external factors such as environmental temperature affect intraspecific 2. We aimed to fill void by studying functional responses two ground beetle species different body size, Pterostichus melanarius Poecilus versicolor . These response experiments were replicated...

With the world continuously warming, a mechanistic understanding of how temperature affects interaction strengths, which are fundamental to food‐web stability, is needed. As strengths determined by flows energy from resources consumers, we investigated effects on animal energetics. We used newly compiled datasets respiration rates and assimilation efficiencies assess use (respiration rates) efficiency gain (assimilation efficiency) for different consumer types. Furthermore, incorporated our...

Living organisms are constrained by both resource quantity and quality. Ecological stoichiometry offers important insights into how the elemental composition of resources affects their consumers. If quality decreases, consumers can respond shifting body stoichiometry, avoiding low-quality resources, or up-regulating feeding rates to maintain supply required elements while excreting excess carbon (i.e., compensatory feeding). We analyzed multitrophic consumer biomass, along a resource-quality...

Soil systems maintain important ecosystem processes crucial for plant life and food production. Especially agricultural are strongly affected by climate change due to low vegetation cover associated with high temperatures drought. Nevertheless, the response of soil is little explored. We used microcosms a simplified community address effects using independent temperature dryness gradients addressed their on top–down control litter decomposition. The consisted maize as basal resource, fungi,...

Abstract Soil fauna drives crucial processes of energy and nutrient cycling in agricultural systems, influences the quality crops pest incidence. tillage is most influential manipulation soil structure, has a profound influence on biology its provision ecosystem services. The objective this study was to quantify through meta‐analyses effects reducing intensity density diversity micro‐ mesofaunal communities, how these vary among different pedoclimatic conditions interact with concurrent...

Abstract The increasing demand for biomass food, animal feed, fibre and bioenergy requires optimization of soil productivity, while at the same time, protecting other functions such as nutrient cycling buffering, carbon storage, habitat biological activity water filter storage. Therefore, one main challenges sustainable agriculture is to produce high yields maintaining all functions. Mechanistic simulation models are an essential tool fully understand predict complex interactions between...

Soil fauna drives crucial processes of energy and nutrient cycling in agricultural systems, influences the quality crops pest incidence. tillage is most influential manipulation soil structure, has a profound influence on biology its provision ecosystem services. Understanding effects different intensities interest not only to scientific community, but also farmers, practitioners, policy makers consultants. We present results global meta-analysis available literature data taxonomic...

Abstract Although a comprehensive understanding of soil systems is needed to sustain functioning, our scientific knowledge the underlying processes, for example, on impact earthworm activity bulk density, still limited. Using meta‐analysis, we quantified effects density and investigated influence driving factors. Earthworm effect sizes were species‐specific depended texture body mass. Effect not unambiguously dependent ecological groups, land use, experimental duration, abundance or initial...

Abstract Soil fauna plays an essential role in agricultural productivity as it mediates nutrient cycling and soil organic matter dynamics, alters physicochemical properties supports plant growth. Nitrogen fertilization may have a positive or negative influence on manner that ecosystem functioning, but these links not yet been quantified generalized manner. We present the results of global meta-analysis available literature data effects nitrogen taxonomic ecological groups fauna. Our show...

Abstract Herbivory and disturbance are major drivers of biological invasions, but it is unclear how they interact to determine exotic vs. native seedling recruitment what consequences arise for biodiversity ecosystem functioning. Previous studies neglected the roles different, potentially interacting, guilds generalist herbivores such as rodents gastropods. We therefore set up a full-factorial rodent exclusion x gastropod seed-addition experiment in grassland community Central Germany...

Abstract Der Boden ist einer der individuen‐ und artenreichsten Lebensräume Erde Ort vielfältiger ökosystemarer Dienstleistungen. Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte zur Entstehung Entwicklung von Bodentiergemeinschaften, zu den vielfältigen Wechselwirkungen innerhalb des Bodennahrungsnetzes Verbreitung Bodentieren geben unter anderem Einblick in die ökologischen Ansprüche Anpassungsfähigkeit Welt unseren Füßen tragen so dazu bei, eine nachhaltige Nutzung Ökoressource gewährleisten.

Phylogenetic positioning within Eutardigrada is based mainly on claw and buccopharyngeal morphology. In tardigrades that lack claws, i.e. representatives of the genus Apodibius, structures are only morphological characters used for systematic classification. Investigating feeding apparatus Apodibius confususDastych, 1983 with light microscopy scanning electron (SEM) techniques, present study added affirmation to recently published molecular classification A. confusus as a representative...

Abstract. The central importance of soil for the functioning terrestrial systems is increasingly recognized. Critically relevant water quality, climate control, nutrient cycling and biodiversity, provides more functions than just basis agricultural production. Nowadays, under pressure as a limited resource production food, energy raw materials. This has led to an increasing demand concepts assessing so that they can be adequately considered in decision making aimed at sustainable management....

<p>The impact of agricultural activities on soil fauna can be highly variable, depending the management options adopted. High-input practices promote a reduction in diversity microarthropod communities but, at same time also favor bacterial-feeding through increase bacterial foodweb pathways. In contrast, low-input dominance fungal-feeding promotion fungal Responses vary with after fertilizer application and are strongly dependent crop species or shifts plant composition due to...

The increasing demand for biomass food, animal feed, fiber and bioenergy requires optimization of soil productivity, while, at the same time, protecting other functions such as nutrient cycling buffering, carbon storage, habitat biological activity, water filter storage. Therefore, one main challenges sustainable agriculture is to produce high yields while maintaining all functions. Mechanistic simulation models are an essential tool predicting well complex interactions between these...

Abstract. In this technical note, we introduce a web-based application, the soil knowledge library (KLIB), for compilation and classification of scientific publications on process research according to specific site conditions experimental boundary conditions. The tool was developed based understanding that findings in science are highly dependent type, land use climate. KLIB, therefore, goes beyond other available digital libraries by providing meta-data settings each publication. A number...

Abstract. In this technical note, we introduce a web-based application, the BonaRes Knowledge Library (KLIB, https://klibrary.bonares.de, last access: 26 July 2023), for compilation and classification of scientific publications on soil processes according to specific site conditions experimental boundary conditions. The tool was developed based understanding that findings in science are highly dependent type, land use, climate. KLIB, therefore, goes beyond other available digital libraries...