University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2016
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Description:
Forest soil invertebrates are extremely diverse and form complex food webs. Trophic interactions are concealed from direct observation by the heterogeneous soil system and small size of soil invertebrates and their basal resources such as soil microorganisms. The soil system is connected to plant via roots and leaf litter. Tree species identity is known to affect soil animal communities and energy fluxes. To analyze energy fluxes from the above- to the belowground system stable isotopes are widely used. By using 13C (carbon) and 15N (nitrogen) labeling experiments, I analyzed the contributi...