Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity

Madhav P. Thakur; Helen R. P. Phillips; Ulrich Brose; Franciska T. De Vries; Patrick Lavelle; Michel Loreau; Jerome Mathieu; Christian Mulder; Wim H. Van der Putten; Matthias C. Rillig; David A. Wardle; Elizabeth M. Bach; Marie L. C. Bartz; Joanne M. Bennett; Maria J. I. Briones; George Brown; Thibaud Decaens; Nico Eisenhauer; Olga Ferlian; Carlos Antonio Guerra; Birgitta Koenig-Ries; Alberto Orgiazzi; Kelly S. Ramirez; David J. Russell; Michiel Rutgers; Diana H. Wall; Erin K. Cameron

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Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity

Madhav P. Thakur, Helen R. P. Phillips, Ulrich Brose, Franciska T. De Vries, Patrick Lavelle, Michel Loreau, Jerome Mathieu, Christian Mulder, Wim H. Van der Putten, Matthias C. Rillig, David A. Wardle, Elizabeth M. Bach, Marie L. C. Bartz, Joanne M. Bennett, Maria J. I. Briones, George Brown, Thibaud Decaens, Nico Eisenhauer, Olga Ferlian, Carlos Antonio GuerraBirgitta Koenig-Ries, Alberto Orgiazzi, Kelly S. Ramirez, David J. Russell, Michiel Rutgers, Diana H. Wall, Erin K. Cameron

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Soil is one of the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats. Yet, we lack an integrative conceptual framework for understanding the patterns and mechanisms driving soil biodiversity. One of the underlying reasons for our poor understanding of soil biodiversity patterns relates to whether key biodiversity theories (historically developed for aboveground and aquatic organisms) are applicable to patterns of soil biodiversity. Here, we present a systematic literature review to investigate whether and how key biodiversity theories (species–energy relationship, theory of island biogeography, metacommunity theory, niche theory and neutral theory) can explain observed patterns of soil biodiversity. We then discuss two spatial compartments nested within soil at which biodiversity theories can be applied to acknowledge the scale-dependent nature of soil biodiversity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	350-364
Number of pages	15
Journal	Biological Reviews
Volume	95
Issue number	2
Early online date	15 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12567
Publication status	Published - 01 Apr 2020

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Thakur, M. P., Phillips, H. R. P., Brose, U., De Vries, F. T., Lavelle, P., Loreau, M., Mathieu, J., Mulder, C., Van der Putten, W. H., Rillig, M. C., Wardle, D. A., Bach, E. M., Bartz, M. L. C., Bennett, J. M., Briones, M. J. I., Brown, G., Decaens, T., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., ... Cameron, E. K. (2020). Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity. Biological Reviews, 95(2), 350-364. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12567

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