University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2024
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Description:
Human activity-induced global change is increasingly threatening biodiversity and composition of species assemblages worldwide, which reduces ecosystem resilience and provokes concerns about ecosystem functions. Over the past decades, studies examining such effects have overwhelmingly focused on aboveground taxa, while our understanding of the effects on soil biodiversity and aboveground-belowground interactions remains comparatively limited. In soil systems, earthworms, as ecosystem engineers, dominate invertebrate biomass in numerous terrestrial ecosystems, and are key drivers of terrestr...