Title |
The Enigma of Soil Animal Species Diversity Revisited: The Role of Small-Scale Heterogeneity
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2010
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0011567 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Uffe N. Nielsen, Graham H. R. Osler, Colin D. Campbell, Roy Neilson, David F. R. P. Burslem, René van der Wal |
Abstract |
"The enigma of soil animal species diversity" was the title of a popular article by J. M. Anderson published in 1975. In that paper, Anderson provided insights on the great richness of species found in soils, but emphasized that the mechanisms contributing to the high species richness belowground were largely unknown. Yet, exploration of the mechanisms driving species richness has focused, almost exclusively, on above-ground plant and animal communities, and nearly 35 years later we have several new hypotheses but are not much closer to revealing why soils are so rich in species. One persistent but untested hypothesis is that species richness is promoted by small-scale environmental heterogeneity. |
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Germany | 2 | 1% |
Brazil | 2 | 1% |
France | 2 | 1% |
Panama | 1 | <1% |
South Africa | 1 | <1% |
Slovenia | 1 | <1% |
Turkey | 1 | <1% |
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Researcher | 26 | 14% |
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Professor | 11 | 6% |
Other | 26 | 14% |
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Environmental Science | 41 | 22% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 2% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 1% |
Unspecified | 2 | 1% |
Other | 8 | 4% |
Unknown | 47 | 26% |