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  • 2020Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","e01668"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","101"],["dc.contributor.author","Potapov, Anton M."],["dc.contributor.author","Dupérré, Nadine"],["dc.contributor.author","Jochum, Malte"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreczko, Kerstin"],["dc.contributor.author","Klarner, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Barnes, Andrew D."],["dc.contributor.author","Krashevska, Valentyna"],["dc.contributor.author","Rembold, Katja"],["dc.contributor.author","Kreft, Holger"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.contributor.author","Widyastuti, Rahayu"],["dc.contributor.author","Harms, Danilo"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-10-25T07:22:50Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-10-25T07:22:50Z"],["dc.date.issued","2020"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1002/bes2.1668"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/116488"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B01: Structure, stability and functioning of macro-invertebrate communities in rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra (Indonesia)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B06: Taxonomische, funktionelle, phylogenetische und biogeographische Diversität vaskulärer Pflanzen in Regenwald-Transformationssystemen auf Sumatra (Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B08: Struktur und Funktion des Zersetzersystems in Transformationssystemen von Tiefland-Regenwäldern"],["dc.relation.issn","0012-9623"],["dc.relation.issn","2327-6096"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_otherPublications"],["dc.title","Ground Spider Communities Under Tropical Land‐Use Change"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2019Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","e02957"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecology"],["dc.contributor.author","Potapov, Anton M."],["dc.contributor.author","Dupérré, Nadine"],["dc.contributor.author","Jochum, Malte"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreczko, Kerstin"],["dc.contributor.author","Klarner, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Barnes, Andrew D."],["dc.contributor.author","Krashevska, Valentyna"],["dc.contributor.author","Rembold, Katja"],["dc.contributor.author","Kreft, Holger"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.contributor.author","Widyastuti, Rahayu"],["dc.contributor.author","Harms, Danilo"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-01-29T10:54:30Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-01-29T10:54:30Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.description.abstract","Deforestation and land-use change in tropical regions result in habitat loss and extinction of species that are unable to adapt to the conditions in agricultural landscapes. If the associated loss of functional diversity is not compensated by species colonizing the converted habitats, extinctions might be followed by a reduction or loss of ecosystem functions including biological control. To date, little is known on how land-use change in the tropics alters the functional diversity of invertebrate predators and which key environmental factors may mitigate the decline in functional diversity and predation in litter and soil communities. We applied litter sieving and heat extraction to study ground spider communities and assessed structural characteristics of vegetation and parameters of litter in rainforest and agricultural land-use systems (jungle rubber, rubber and oil palm monocultures) in a Southeast Asian hotspot of rainforest conversion: Sumatra, Indonesia. We found that (1) spider density, species richness, functional diversity and community predation (energy flux to spiders) were reduced by 57-98% from rainforest to oil palm monoculture; (2) jungle rubber and rubber monoculture sustained relatively high diversity and predation in ground spiders, but small cryptic spider species strongly declined; (3) high species turnover compensated losses of some functional trait combinations, but did not compensate for the overall loss of functional diversity and predation per unit area; (4) spider diversity was related to habitat structure such as amount of litter, understory density and understory height, while spider predation was better explained by plant diversity. Management practices that increase habitat structural complexity and plant diversity such as mulching, reduced weeding, and intercropping monocultures with other plants may contribute to maintaining functional diversity of and predation services provided by ground invertebrate communities in plantations."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1002/ecy.2957"],["dc.identifier.pmid","31840252"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/62879"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B01: Structure, stability and functioning of macro-invertebrate communities in rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra (Indonesia)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B06: Taxonomische, funktionelle, phylogenetische und biogeographische Diversität vaskulärer Pflanzen in Regenwald-Transformationssystemen auf Sumatra (Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B08: Struktur und Funktion des Zersetzersystems in Transformationssystemen von Tiefland-Regenwäldern"],["dc.relation.eissn","1939-9170"],["dc.relation.issn","0012-9658"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Zentrum für Biodiversität und Nachhaltige Landnutzung"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Functional losses in ground spider communities due to habitat-structure degradation under tropical land-use change"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2016Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","13137"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Nature Communications"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","12"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","7"],["dc.contributor.author","Clough, Yann"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Corre, Marife D."],["dc.contributor.author","Darras, Kevin"],["dc.contributor.author","Denmead, Lisa H."],["dc.contributor.author","Meijide, Ana"],["dc.contributor.author","Moser, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Mußhoff, Oliver"],["dc.contributor.author","Steinebach, Stefanie"],["dc.contributor.author","Veldkamp, Edzo"],["dc.contributor.author","Allen, Kara"],["dc.contributor.author","Barnes, Andrew D."],["dc.contributor.author","Breidenbach, Natalie"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.contributor.author","Buchori, Damayanti"],["dc.contributor.author","Daniel, Rolf"],["dc.contributor.author","Finkeldey, Reiner"],["dc.contributor.author","Harahap, Idham"],["dc.contributor.author","Hertel, Dietrich"],["dc.contributor.author","Holtkamp, A. Mareike"],["dc.contributor.author","Hörandl, Elvira"],["dc.contributor.author","Irawan, Bambang"],["dc.contributor.author","Jaya, I. Nengah Surati"],["dc.contributor.author","Jochum, Malte"],["dc.contributor.author","Klarner, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Knohl, Alexander"],["dc.contributor.author","Kotowska, Martyna M."],["dc.contributor.author","Krashevska, Valentyna"],["dc.contributor.author","Kreft, Holger"],["dc.contributor.author","Kurniawan, Syahrul"],["dc.contributor.author","Leuschner, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Maraun, Mark"],["dc.contributor.author","Melati, Dian Nuraini"],["dc.contributor.author","Opfermann, Nicole"],["dc.contributor.author","Pérez-Cruzado, César"],["dc.contributor.author","Prabowo, Walesa Edho"],["dc.contributor.author","Rembold, Katja"],["dc.contributor.author","Rizali, Akhmad"],["dc.contributor.author","Rubiana, Ratna"],["dc.contributor.author","Schneider, Dominik"],["dc.contributor.author","Tjitrosoedirdjo, Sri Sudarmiyati"],["dc.contributor.author","Tjoa, Aiyen"],["dc.contributor.author","Tscharntke, Teja"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:45:50Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:45:50Z"],["dc.date.issued","2016"],["dc.description.abstract","Smallholder-dominated agricultural mosaic landscapes are highlighted as model production systems that deliver both economic and ecological goods in tropical agricultural landscapes, but trade-offs underlying current land-use dynamics are poorly known. Here, using the most comprehensive quantification of land-use change and associated bundles of ecosystem functions, services and economic benefits to date, we show that Indonesian smallholders predominantly choose farm portfolios with high economic productivity but low ecological value. The more profitable oil palm and rubber monocultures replace forests and agroforests critical for maintaining above- and below-ground ecological functions and the diversity of most taxa. Between the monocultures, the higher economic performance of oil palm over rubber comes with the reliance on fertilizer inputs and with increased nutrient leaching losses. Strategies to achieve an ecological-economic balance and a sustainable management of tropical smallholder landscapes must be prioritized to avoid further environmental degradation."],["dc.description.sponsorship","Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2016"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1038/ncomms13137"],["dc.identifier.fs","625489"],["dc.identifier.gro","3149120"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/13958"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/5770"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Kreft Crossref Import"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | A | A03: Untersuchung von Land-Atmosphäre Austauschprozesse in Landnutzungsänderungs-Systemen"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | A | A05: Optimierung des Nährstoffmanagements in Ölpalmplantagen und Hochrechnung plot-basierter Treibhausgasflüsse auf die Landschaftsebene transformierter Regenwälder"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B01: Structure, stability and functioning of macro-invertebrate communities in rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra (Indonesia)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B02: Impact of rainforest transformation on phylogenetic and functional diversity of soil prokaryotic communities in Sumatra (Indonesia)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B03: Plant genetic diversity in tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B04: Pflanzenproduktivität und Ressourcenaufteilung im Wurzelraum entlang von Gradienten tropischer Landnutzungsintensität und Baumartenvielfalt"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B05: Land use patterns in Jambi - quantification of structure, heterogeneity and changes of vegetation and land use as a basis for the explanation of ecological and socioeconomic functions"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B06: Taxonomische, funktionelle, phylogenetische und biogeographische Diversität vaskulärer Pflanzen in Regenwald-Transformationssystemen auf Sumatra (Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B08: Struktur und Funktion des Zersetzersystems in Transformationssystemen von Tiefland-Regenwäldern"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B09: Oberirdische Biodiversitätsmuster und Prozesse in Regenwaldtransformations-Landschaften"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B12: Reproductive strategies of weedy flowering plants in tropical rainforest transformation systems"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B13: Impact of management intensity and tree enrichment of oil palm plantations on below- and aboveground invertebrates in Sumatra (Indonesia)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C01: Produktivität, Marktzugang und internationale Anbindung von kleinbäuerlicher Kautschuk- und Palmölerzeugung in der Provinz Jambi"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C03: Culture-Specific Human Interaction with Tropical Lowland Rainforests in Transformation in Jambi, Sumatra"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C06: Zum Verständnis des Zertifizierungs- und Wiederanpflanzungsverhaltens indonesischer Kleinbauern"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.issn","2041-1723"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Abteilung Bioklimatologie"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2014Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1212"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","10"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Oikos"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1223"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","123"],["dc.contributor.author","Ott, David"],["dc.contributor.author","Digel, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Klarner, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Maraun, Mark"],["dc.contributor.author","Pollierer, Melanie M."],["dc.contributor.author","Rall, Bjoern Christian"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Seelig, Gesine"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:34:38Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:34:38Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","To maintain constant chemical composition, i.e. elemental homeostasis, organisms have to consume resources of sufficient quality to meet their own specific stoichiometric demand. Therefore, concentrations of elements indicate resource quality, and rare elements in the environment may act as limiting factors for individual organisms scaling up to constrain population densities. We investigated how the biomass densities of invertebrate populations of temperate forest soil communities depend on 1) the stoichiometry of the basal litter according to ecological stoichiometry concepts and 2) the population average body mass as predicted by metabolic theory. We used a large data set on biomass densities of 4959 populations across 48 forests in three regions of Germany. Following various ecological stoichiometry hypotheses, we tested for effects of the carbon-to-element ratios of 10 elements. Additionally, we included the abiotic litter characteristics habitat size (represented by litter depth), litter diversity and pH, as well as forest type as an indicator for human management. Across 12 species groups, we found that the biomass densities scaled significantly with population-averaged body masses thus supporting metabolic theory. Additionally, 10 of these allometric scaling relationships exhibited interactions with stoichiometric and abiotic co-variables. The four most frequent co-variables were 1) forest type, 2) the carbon-to-phosphorus ratio (C:P), 3) the carbon-to-sodium ratio (C:Na), and the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C:N). Hence, our analyses support the sodium shortage hypothesis for microbi-detritivores, the structural elements hypothesis for some predator groups (concerning N), and the secondary productivity hypothesis (concerning P) across all trophic groups in our data. In contrast, the ecosystem size hypothesis was only supported for some meso- and macrofauna detritivores. Our study is thus providing a comprehensive analysis how the elemental stoichiometry of the litter as the basal resource constrain population densities across multiple trophic levels of soil communities."],["dc.description.sponsorship","DFG [1374, BR 2315/7-2]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/oik.01670"],["dc.identifier.isi","000342754100007"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/32214"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Wiley-blackwell"],["dc.relation.issn","1600-0706"],["dc.relation.issn","0030-1299"],["dc.title","Litter elemental stoichiometry and biomass densities of forest soil invertebrates"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2017Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","131"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","The American Naturalist"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","143"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","190"],["dc.contributor.author","Jochum, Malte"],["dc.contributor.author","Barnes, Andrew D."],["dc.contributor.author","Ott, David"],["dc.contributor.author","Lang, Birgit"],["dc.contributor.author","Klarner, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Farajallah, Achmad"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T10:22:18Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T10:22:18Z"],["dc.date.issued","2017"],["dc.description.abstract","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 resource quality decreases, consumers can respond by shifting their body stoichiometry, avoiding low-quality resources, or up-regulating feeding rates to maintain the supply of required elements while excreting excess carbon (i.e., compensatory feeding). We analyzed multitrophic consumer body stoichiometry, biomass, and feeding rates along a resource-quality gradient in the litter of tropical forest and rubber and oil-palm plantations. Specifically, we calculated macroinvertebrate feeding rates based on consumer metabolic demand and assimilation efficiency. Using linear mixed effects models, we assessed resource-quality effects on macroinvertebrate detritivore and predator communities. We did not detect shifts in consumer body stoichiometry or decreases in consumer biomass in response to declining resource quality, as indicated by increasing carbon-to-nitrogen ratios. However, across trophic levels, we found a strong indication of decreasing resource quality leading to increased consumer feeding rates through altered assimilation efficiency and community body size structure. Our study reveals the influence of resource quality on multitrophic consumer feeding rates and suggests compensatory feeding to be more common across consumer trophic levels than was formerly known."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1086/691790"],["dc.identifier.isi","000403565000012"],["dc.identifier.pmid","28617641"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/42244"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B01: Structure, stability and functioning of macro-invertebrate communities in rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra (Indonesia)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B08: Struktur und Funktion des Zersetzersystems in Transformationssystemen von Tiefland-Regenwäldern"],["dc.relation.issn","1537-5323"],["dc.relation.issn","0003-0147"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Decreasing Stoichiometric Resource Quality Drives Compensatory Feeding across Trophic Levels in Tropical Litter Invertebrate Communities"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2014Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1157"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","10"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Oikos"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1172"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","123"],["dc.contributor.author","Digel, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Curtsdotter, Alva"],["dc.contributor.author","Riede, Jens O."],["dc.contributor.author","Klarner, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:34:36Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:34:36Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","Food web topologies depict the community structure as distributions of feeding interactions across populations. Although the soil ecosystem provides important functions for aboveground ecosystems, data on complex soil food webs is notoriously scarce, most likely due to the difficulty of sampling and characterizing the system. To fill this gap we assembled the complex food webs of 48 forest soil communities. The food webs comprise 89 to 168 taxa and 729 to 3344 feeding interactions. The feeding links were established by combining several molecular methods (stable isotope, fatty acid and molecular gut content analyses) with feeding trials and literature data. First, we addressed whether soil food webs (n = 48) differ significantly from those of other ecosystem types (aquatic and terrestrial aboveground, n = 77) by comparing 22 food web parameters. We found that our soil food webs are characterized by many omnivorous and cannibalistic species, more trophic chains and intraguild-predation motifs than other food webs and high average and maximum trophic levels. Despite this, we also found that soil food webs have a similar connectance as other ecosystems, but interestingly a higher link density and clustering coefficient. These differences in network structure to other ecosystem types may be a result of ecosystem specific constraints on hunting and feeding characteristics of the species that emerge as network parameters at the food-web level. In a second analysis of land-use effects, we found significant but only small differences of soil food web structure between different beech and coniferous forest types, which may be explained by generally strong selection effects of the soil that are independent of human land use. Overall, our study has unravelled some systematic structures of soil food-webs, which extends our mechanistic understanding how environmental characteristics of the soil ecosystem determine patterns at the community level."],["dc.description.sponsorship","DFG [1374, BR 2315/7-2, BR 2315/13-2]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/oik.00865"],["dc.identifier.isi","000342754100002"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/32208"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Wiley-blackwell"],["dc.relation.issn","1600-0706"],["dc.relation.issn","0030-1299"],["dc.title","Unravelling the complex structure of forest soil food webs: higher omnivory and more trophic levels"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2021Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","195"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Oecologia"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","209"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","196"],["dc.contributor.author","Pollierer, Melanie M."],["dc.contributor.author","Klarner, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Ott, David"],["dc.contributor.author","Digel, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Ehnes, Roswitha B."],["dc.contributor.author","Eitzinger, Bernhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Erdmann, Georgia"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.contributor.author","Maraun, Mark"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2021-06-01T09:42:52Z"],["dc.date.available","2021-06-01T09:42:52Z"],["dc.date.issued","2021"],["dc.description.abstract","Abstract Forest soil and litter is inhabited by a diverse community of animals, which directly and indirectly rely on dead organic matter as habitat and food resource. However, community composition may be driven by biotic or abiotic forces, and these vary with changes in habitat structure and resource supply associated with forest land use. To evaluate these changes, we compiled comprehensive data on the species composition of soil animal communities and environmental factors in forest types varying in land-use intensity in each of three regions in Germany, i.e., coniferous, young managed, old managed, and unmanaged beech forests. Coniferous forests featured high amounts of leaf litter and low microbial biomass concentrations contrasting in particular unmanaged beech forests. However, soil animal diversity and functional community composition differed little between forest types, indicating resilience against disturbance and forest land use. Structural equation modelling suggested that despite a significant influence of forest management on resource abundance and quality, the biomass of most soil fauna functional groups was not directly affected by forest management or resource abundance/quality, potentially because microorganisms hamper the propagation of nutrients to higher trophic levels. Instead, detritivore biomass depended heavily on soil pH. Macrofauna decomposers thrived at high pH, whereas mesofauna decomposers benefitted from low soil pH, but also from low biomass of macrofauna decomposers, potentially due to habitat modification by macrofauna decomposers. The strong influence of soil pH shows that decomposer communities are structured predominantly by regional abiotic factors exceeding the role of local biotic factors such as forest type."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1007/s00442-021-04910-1"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/85375"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-425"],["dc.relation.eissn","1432-1939"],["dc.relation.issn","0029-8549"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Zentrum für Biodiversität und Nachhaltige Landnutzung"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.title","Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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