Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota.
Understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is critical to predicting and monitoring the effects of ecosystem changes on important soil processes. However, most of Earth's soils are too biologically diverse to identify each species present and determine th...
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ftulancaster:oai:eprints.lancs.ac.uk:10172 2023-08-27T04:06:11+02:00 Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota. Adams, Byron J. Bardgett, Richard D. Ayres, Edward Wall, Diana H. Aislabie, Jackie Bamforth, Stuart Bargagli, Roberto Cary, Craig Cavacini, Paolo Connell, Laurie Convey, Peter Fell, Jack W. Frati, Francesco Hogg, Ian D. Newsham, Kevin K. O’Donnell, Anthony Russell, Nicholas Seppelt, Rodney D. Stevens, Mark I. 2006-10 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.04.030 unknown Adams, Byron J. and Bardgett, Richard D. and Ayres, Edward and Wall, Diana H. and Aislabie, Jackie and Bamforth, Stuart and Bargagli, Roberto and Cary, Craig and Cavacini, Paolo and Connell, Laurie and Convey, Peter and Fell, Jack W. and Frati, Francesco and Hogg, Ian D. and Newsham, Kevin K. and O’Donnell, Anthony and Russell, Nicholas and Seppelt, Rodney D. and Stevens, Mark I. (2006) Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 38 (10). pp. 3003-3018. ISSN 0038-0717 Journal Article PeerReviewed 2006 ftulancaster https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.04.030 2023-08-03T22:16:42Z Understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is critical to predicting and monitoring the effects of ecosystem changes on important soil processes. However, most of Earth's soils are too biologically diverse to identify each species present and determine their functional role in food webs. The soil ecosystems of Victoria Land (VL) Antarctica are functionally and biotically simple, and serve as in situ models for determining the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem processes. For a few VL taxa (microarthropods, nematodes, algae, mosses and lichens), species diversity has been intensively assessed in highly localized habitats, but little is known of how community assemblages vary across broader spatial scales, or across latitudinal and environmental gradients. The composition of tardigrade, rotifer, protist, fungal and prokaryote communities is emerging. The latter groups are the least studied, but potentially the most diverse. Endemism is highest for microarthropods and nematodes, less so for tardigrades and rotifers, and apparently low for mosses, lichens, protists, fungi and prokaryotes. Much of what is known about VL diversity and distribution occurs in an evolutionary and ecological vacuum; links between taxa and functional role in ecosystems are poorly known and future studies must utilize phylogenetic information to infer patterns of community assembly, speciation, extinction, population processes and biogeography. However, a comprehensive compilation of all the species that participate in soil ecosystem processes, and their distribution across regional and landscape scales is immediately achievable in VL with the resources, tools, and expertise currently available. We suggest that the soil ecosystems of VL should play a major role in exploring the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and in monitoring the effects of environmental change on soil processes in real time and space. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Victoria Land Rotifer Tardigrade Lancaster University: Lancaster Eprints Victoria Land Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38 10 3003 3018 |
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Understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is critical to predicting and monitoring the effects of ecosystem changes on important soil processes. However, most of Earth's soils are too biologically diverse to identify each species present and determine their functional role in food webs. The soil ecosystems of Victoria Land (VL) Antarctica are functionally and biotically simple, and serve as in situ models for determining the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem processes. For a few VL taxa (microarthropods, nematodes, algae, mosses and lichens), species diversity has been intensively assessed in highly localized habitats, but little is known of how community assemblages vary across broader spatial scales, or across latitudinal and environmental gradients. The composition of tardigrade, rotifer, protist, fungal and prokaryote communities is emerging. The latter groups are the least studied, but potentially the most diverse. Endemism is highest for microarthropods and nematodes, less so for tardigrades and rotifers, and apparently low for mosses, lichens, protists, fungi and prokaryotes. Much of what is known about VL diversity and distribution occurs in an evolutionary and ecological vacuum; links between taxa and functional role in ecosystems are poorly known and future studies must utilize phylogenetic information to infer patterns of community assembly, speciation, extinction, population processes and biogeography. However, a comprehensive compilation of all the species that participate in soil ecosystem processes, and their distribution across regional and landscape scales is immediately achievable in VL with the resources, tools, and expertise currently available. We suggest that the soil ecosystems of VL should play a major role in exploring the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and in monitoring the effects of environmental change on soil processes in real time and space. |
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Adams, Byron J. Bardgett, Richard D. Ayres, Edward Wall, Diana H. Aislabie, Jackie Bamforth, Stuart Bargagli, Roberto Cary, Craig Cavacini, Paolo Connell, Laurie Convey, Peter Fell, Jack W. Frati, Francesco Hogg, Ian D. Newsham, Kevin K. O’Donnell, Anthony Russell, Nicholas Seppelt, Rodney D. Stevens, Mark I. |
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Adams, Byron J. Bardgett, Richard D. Ayres, Edward Wall, Diana H. Aislabie, Jackie Bamforth, Stuart Bargagli, Roberto Cary, Craig Cavacini, Paolo Connell, Laurie Convey, Peter Fell, Jack W. Frati, Francesco Hogg, Ian D. Newsham, Kevin K. O’Donnell, Anthony Russell, Nicholas Seppelt, Rodney D. Stevens, Mark I. Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota. |
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Adams, Byron J. Bardgett, Richard D. Ayres, Edward Wall, Diana H. Aislabie, Jackie Bamforth, Stuart Bargagli, Roberto Cary, Craig Cavacini, Paolo Connell, Laurie Convey, Peter Fell, Jack W. Frati, Francesco Hogg, Ian D. Newsham, Kevin K. O’Donnell, Anthony Russell, Nicholas Seppelt, Rodney D. Stevens, Mark I. |
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Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota. |
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Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota. |
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Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota. |
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Diversity and distribution of Victorian Land biota. |
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