Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity
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Thakur , M P , Phillips , H R P , Brose , U , De Vries , F T , Lavelle , P , Loreau , M , Mathieu , J , Mulder , C , Van der Putten , W H , Rillig , M C , Wardle , D A , Bach , E M , Bartz , M L C , Bennett , J M , Briones , M J I , Brown , G , Decaëns , T , Eisenhauer , N , Ferlian , O , Guerra , C A , König-Ries , B , Orgiazzi , A , Ramirez , K S , Russell , D J , Rutgers , M , Wall , D H & Cameron , E K 2020 , ' Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity ' , Biological Reviews , vol. 95 , no. 2 , pp. 350-364 . https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12567
| Title: | Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity |
| Author: | Thakur, Madhav P.; Phillips, Helen R. P.; Brose, Ulrich; De Vries, Franciska T.; Lavelle, Patrick; Loreau, Michel; Mathieu, Jerome; Mulder, Christian; Van der Putten, Wim H.; Rillig, Matthias C.; Wardle, David A.; Bach, Elizabeth M.; Bartz, Marie L. C.; Bennett, Joanne M.; Briones, Maria J. I.; Brown, George; Decaëns, Thibaud; Eisenhauer, Nico; Ferlian, Olga; Guerra, Carlos António; König-Ries, Birgitta; Orgiazzi, Alberto; Ramirez, Kelly S.; Russell, David J.; Rutgers, Michiel; Wall, Diana H.; Cameron, Erin K. |
| Contributor organization: | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Date: | 2020-04 |
| Language: | eng |
| Number of pages: | 15 |
| Belongs to series: | Biological Reviews |
| ISSN: | 1464-7931 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12567 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/313226 |
| Abstract: | Soil is one of the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats. Yet, we lack an integrative conceptual framework for understanding the patterns and mechanisms driving soil biodiversity. One of the underlying reasons for our poor understanding of soil biodiversity patterns relates to whether key biodiversity theories (historically developed for aboveground and aquatic organisms) are applicable to patterns of soil biodiversity. Here, we present a systematic literature review to investigate whether and how key biodiversity theories (species-energy relationship, theory of island biogeography, metacommunity theory, niche theory and neutral theory) can explain observed patterns of soil biodiversity. We then discuss two spatial compartments nested within soil at which biodiversity theories can be applied to acknowledge the scale-dependent nature of soil biodiversity. |
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BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES
BELOW-GROUND BIODIVERSITY BETA DIVERSITY DISPERSAL LIMITATION ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS MACROECOLOGICAL PATTERNS MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES PLANT DIVERSITY PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENT UNIFIED-NEUTRAL-THEORY alpha diversity beta diversity biodiversity theory metacommunity theory neutral theory niche theory spatial scale species-energy relationship theory of island biogeography 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Rights: | cc_by_nc_nd |
| Usage restriction: | openAccess |
| Self-archived version: | publishedVersion |
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