The variety and abundance of organism sizes in a community allows valuable conclusions
to be drawn concerning trophic transfer efficiency, process rate dynamics, and ecological …

Modification of soil food webs by land management may alter the response of ecosystem
processes to climate extremes, but empirical support is limited and the mechanisms involved …

Ecologists are debating the relative role of deterministic and stochastic determinants of
community structure. Although the high diversity and strong spatial structure of soil animal …

Body size and reproductive strategies are usually connected to several important ecological
processes and have drawn the interest of numerous researchers. While numerous studies …

Many ecosystems are currently undergoing dramatic changes in biodiversity due to habitat
loss and climate change. Responses to global change at the community level are poorly …

The increased prevalence of smaller-bodied species under warmer conditions (community
downsizing) is hypothesized as an ecologically critical consequence of climate change …

Soil nematode biomass is of growing importance in elucidating soil food web structure,
ecosystem functioning, and global biogeographical cycling. However, a significant …

Three processes can explain contemporary community assembly: natural selection,
ecological drift and dispersal. However, quantifying their effects has been complicated by …

Forest soil food webs have been assumed to be fueled substantially by root-derived
resources. However, until today the flux of root-derived resources into soil animals has been …

Woody biomass is increasingly harvested in Canadian boreal forests as a source of
bioenergy. However, there is concern over the environmental sustainability of harvesting …