Abstract
Understanding what drives soil fauna species composition through space and time is crucial because we should preserve soil fauna biodiversity and its key role in ecosystem functioning in this era of fast environmental change. As plant leaf litter provides both food and habitat for soil fauna, a focus on litter traits that relate to these two functions will help in understanding soil invertebrate community structure and dynamics comprehensively. To advance this agenda, we propose a conceptual framework to explicitly link the invertebrate community composition to the temporal dynamics of the litter trait space defined by two axes: a food-quality axis related to plant resource economics and chemistry and a habitat-quality axis related to litter particle size and shape.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 886-896 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Trends In Ecology and Evolution |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Early online date | 7 Jun 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2020 |
Funding
S.F. was supported by funding from the Hakubi Project at Kyoto University , a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-Up (No. 18H06078), and a fellowship from the OECD Co-operative Research Programme: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems in 2019.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| OECD | |
| Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | 18H06078, 19K21201 |
Keywords
- habitat
- litter
- plant economics spectrum
- plant trait
- size and shape spectrum
- soil fauna