Tropical land use alters functional diversity of soil food webs and leads to monopolization of the detrital energy channel
Z. Zhou, V. Krashevska, R. Widyastuti, S. Scheu, A. Potapov
The paper examines how converting rainforest to plantations in Sumatra affects soil food web structure and energy flow, finding increased energy channeling through fresh plant carbon and reduced functional diversity.
bioRxiv · Feb 8, 2022Ecology