Toward an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity
2020 | 2018
THAKUR Madhav P. | PHILLIPS Helen R. P. | BROSE Ulrich | DE VRIES Franciska T. | LAVELLE Patrick | LOREAU Michel | MATHIEU Jérôme | MULDER Christian | VAN DER PUTTEN Wim | RILLIG Matthias C. | WARDLE David A. | BACH Elizabeth | BARTZ Marie | BENNETT Joanne | BRIONES María | BROWN George | DECAENS Thibaud | EISENHAUER Nico | FERLIAN Olga | GUERRA Carlos | KONIG-RIES Birgitta | ORGIAZZI Alberto | RAMIREZ Kelly | RUSSELL David J. | RUTGERS Michiel | WALL Diana | CAMERON Erin
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) may explain observed patterns of soil biodiversity. We then discuss three spatial compartments of soil at which biodiversity theories can be applied to acknowledge the scale-variant nature of soil biodiversity.
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