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2509-9523
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Abstract: The world’s soils maintain various ecosystem processes and functions, such as the provision of nitrogen, which is the basis for plant growth. Microorganisms are the key actors in nitrogen transformation processes, but soil fauna can also affect nitrogen cycling , e.g. through food-web interactions or by changing the soil habitat. Several individual studies report increases of soil nitrogen due to soil meso- or microfaunal effects. Recent meta-analyses have shown that nitrogen content and fertility of soils is substantially increased by earthworms. However, we still lack a quantitative synthesis of the influence of smaller soil fauna on soil nitrogen. We present a meta-analysis of effects of soil mesofauna (i.e. enchytraeidae, springtails, mites) and microfauna (i.e. nematodes) on ammonium (NH4+), nitrate (NO3-), and total mineral nitrogen (ammonium + nitrate, Nmin). We furthermore investigated whether the faunal effects depend on functional characteristics (i.e. trophic groups or s.... https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/310
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volume:95
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number:2
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year:2023
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Soil organisms, Görlitz : Senckenberg-Museum für Naturkunde, 2008-, 95, Heft 2 (2023), 2509-9523
Language:
English
DOI:
10.25674/so95iss2id310
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023080710231379382175
URL:
https://doi.org/10.25674/so95iss2id310
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https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023080710231379382175
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https://d-nb.info/1298466539/34
URL:
https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/310/310
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