Abstract:Soil nematodes are a foremost component of terrestrial biodiversity,
they display the whole gamut of trophic guilds and life strategies, and
by their activity, affect major ecosystem processes, such as organic
matter degradation and carbon cycling. Based on nematodes’ functional
types, nematode community indices have been developed and can be used to
link variation in nematode community composition and ecosystem
processes. Yet, the use of these indices has been mainly restricted to
anthropogenic stresses. In t… Show more
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