Scheu, Stefan

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[["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"]]

[["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"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecology Letters"],["dc.contributor.author","Bauer, Barbara"],["dc.contributor.author","Berti, Emilio"],["dc.contributor.author","Ryser, Remo"],["dc.contributor.author","Gauzens, Benoit"],["dc.contributor.author","Hirt, Myriam R."],["dc.contributor.author","Rosenbaum, Benjamin"],["dc.contributor.author","Digel, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Ott, David"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.contributor.editor","Lafferty, Kevin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-04-01T10:03:27Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-04-01T10:03:27Z"],["dc.date.issued","2022"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/ele.13995"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/106171"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-530"],["dc.relation.eissn","1461-0248"],["dc.relation.issn","1461-023X"],["dc.title","Biotic filtering by species’ interactions constrains food‐web variability across spatial and abiotic gradients"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1247"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","10"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecology Letters"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1256"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","17"],["dc.contributor.author","Ott, David"],["dc.contributor.author","Digel, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Rall, Bjoern Christian"],["dc.contributor.author","Maraun, Mark"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Brose, Ulrich"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:34:51Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:34:51Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","While metabolic theory predicts variance in population density within communities depending on population average body masses, the ecological stoichiometry concept relates density variation across communities to varying resource stoichiometry. Using a data set including biomass densities of 4959 populations of soil invertebrates across 48 forest sites we combined these two frameworks. We analyzed how the scaling of biomass densities with population-averaged body masses systematically interacts with stoichiometric variables. Simplified analyses employing either only body masses or only resource stoichiometry are highly context sensitive and yield variable and often misleading results. Our findings provide strong evidence that analyses of ecological state variables should integrate allometric and stoichiometric variables to explain deviations from predicted allometric scaling and avoid erroneous conclusions. In consequence, our study provides an important step towards unifying two prominent ecological theories, metabolic theory and ecological stoichiometry."],["dc.description.sponsorship","DFG [1374, BR 2315/7-2]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/ele.12330"],["dc.identifier.isi","000341883000007"],["dc.identifier.pmid","25041038"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/32266"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Wiley-blackwell"],["dc.relation.issn","1461-0248"],["dc.relation.issn","1461-023X"],["dc.title","Unifying elemental stoichiometry and metabolic theory in predicting species abundances"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]