Shift in soil fauna feeding mode with litter quality across global forests

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Sergey M. Tsurikov · Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Andrew D. Barnes · University of Waikato

Ulrich Brose · German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research

Felicity Crotty · Ricardo Prague (Czechia)

Anton A. Goncharov · Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Anastasia Yu. Gorbunova · Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Fujio Hyodo

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Soil fauna regulates litter decomposition and soil organic matter transformation, acting as both litter and microbial feeders. Whether these feeding modes shift along environmental gradients remains unclear. We tested if microbivory increases with dec

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Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

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DOI: 10.22541/au.176365107.79685934/v1

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Shift in soil fauna feeding mode with litter quality across global forests

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