Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2004
Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biota
Wardle DA, Bardgett RD, Klironomos JN, Setala H, van der Putten WH, Wall DHAbstract
All terrestrial ecosystems consist of aboveground and belowground components that interact to influence community- and ecosystem-level processes and properties. Here we show how these components are closely interlinked at the community level, reinforced by a greater degree of specificity between plants and soil organisms than has been previously supposed. As such, aboveground and belowground communities can be powerful mutual drivers, with both positive and negative feedbacks. A combined aboveground-belowground approach to community and ecosystem ecology is enhancing our understanding of the regulation and functional significance of biodiversity and of the environmental impacts of human-induced global change phenomenaPublished in
Science2004, volume: 304, number: 5677, pages: 1629-1633
Publisher: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
Authors' information
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Vegetation Ecology
Klironomos, John N
Setälä, Heikki
Wall, Diana H
Bardgett, Richard D
van der Putten, Wim H
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Publication Identifiers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1094875
URI (permanent link to this page)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/2856