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Global Change Biology | 2008

Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent

Diana H. Wall; Mark A. Bradford; Mark G. St. John; J. A. Trofymow; Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier; David E. Bignell; J. Mark Dangerfield; William J. Parton; Josef Rusek; Winfried Voigt; Volkmar Wolters; Holley Zadeh Gardel; Fred O. Ayuke; Richard Bashford; Olga I. Beljakova; Patrick J. Bohlen; Alain Brauman; Stephen Flemming; Joh R. Henschel; Dan L. Johnson; T. Hefin Jones; Marcela Kovarova; J. Marty Kranabetter; Les Kutny; Kuo‐Chuan Lin; Mohamed Maryati; Dominique Masse; Andrei Pokarzhevskii; Homathevi Rahman; Millor G. Sabará

Climate and litter quality are primary drivers of terrestrial decomposition and, based on evidence from multisite experiments at regional and global scales, are universally factored into global decomposition models. In contrast, soil animals are considered key regulators of decomposition at local scales but their role at larger scales is unresolved. Soil animals are consequently excluded from global models of organic mineralization processes. Incomplete assessment of the roles of soil animals stems from the difficulties of manipulating invertebrate animals experimentally across large geographic gradients. This is compounded by deficient or inconsistent taxonomy. We report a global decomposition experiment to assess the importance of soil animals in C mineralization, in which a common grass litter substrate was exposed to natural decomposition in either control or reduced animal treatments across 30 sites distributed from 43°S to 68°N on six continents. Animals in the mesofaunal size range were recovered from the litter by Tullgren extraction and identified to common specifications, mostly at the ordinal level. The design of the trials enabled faunal contribution to be evaluated against abiotic parameters between sites. Soil animals increase decomposition rates in temperate and wet tropical climates, but have neutral effects where temperature or moisture constrain biological activity. Our findings highlight that faunal influences on decomposition are dependent on prevailing climatic conditions. We conclude that (1) inclusion of soil animals will improve the predictive capabilities of region- or biome-scale decomposition models, (2) soil animal influences on decomposition are important at the regional scale when attempting to predict global change scenarios, and (3) the statistical relationship between decomposition rates and climate, at the global scale, is robust against changes in soil faunal abundance and diversity.


Zootaxa | 2016

Soil mites of the families Ascidae, Blattisociidae and Melicharidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from mountainous areas of Colombia.

Diana Rueda-Ramírez; Amanda Varela; Gilberto J. de Moraes

Soil mites of the Ascidae sensu Lindquist & Evans (1965) are poorly known in Colombia. This group, presently represented by the families Ascidae sensu stricto, Blattisociidae and Melicharidae, contains species known to prey on small arthropods and nematodes, thus having the potential to be used for the control of soil pests. The aim of this study was to identify species of this group from a fragment of Andean forest and a nearby grassland at the municipality of La Calera, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia, at about 2800 m of elevation. Nine species were found, including five new species, namely Gamasellodes andinus sp. nov., Gamasellodes intermedius sp. nov., Protogamasellus caleraensis sp. nov., Cheiroseius mesae sp. nov. and Proctolaelaps colombianus sp. nov. Morphological characterisation of all the species and relevant soil characteristics of the sites where the mites were collected are presented.


Journal of Ecology | 2009

Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan‐tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

Jennifer S. Powers; Rebecca A. Montgomery; E. Carol Adair; Francis Q. Brearley; Saara J. DeWalt; Camila de Toledo Castanho; Jérôme Chave; Erika Deinert; Jörg U. Ganzhorn; Matthew E. Gilbert; José Antonio González-Iturbe; Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin; H. Ricardo Grau; Kyle E. Harms; J Ankila Hiremath; Silvia Iriarte-Vivar; Eric Manzane; Alexandre A. Oliveira; Lourens Poorter; Jean-Baptiste Ramanamanjato; Carl F. Salk; Amanda Varela; George D. Weiblen; Manuel T. Lerdau


Journal of Invertebrate Pathology | 1996

Characterization of SomeBeauveria bassianaIsolates and Their Virulence toward the Coffee Berry BorerHypothenemus hampei

Amanda Varela; Esperanza Morales


Revista Iberoamericana De Micologia | 2009

Aislamiento y evaluación de la actividad enzimática de hongos descomponedores de madera (Quindío, Colombia)

Deisy Fernanda Chaparro; Diana Carolina Rosas; Amanda Varela


Revista Iberoamericana De Micologia | 2009

OriginalAislamiento y evaluación de la actividad enzimática de hongos descomponedores de madera (Quindío, Colombia)Isolation of wood-decaying fungi and evaluation of their enzymatic activity (Quindío, Colombia)

Deisy Fernanda Chaparro; Diana Carolina Rosas; Amanda Varela


Revista Colombiana De Entomologia | 2007

Cambios en edafofauna asociada a descomposición de hojarasca en un bosque nublado

Amanda Varela; Camilo Cortés; Catalina Cotes


Caldasia | 2006

NUEVOS REGISTROS DE APHYLLOPHORALES (BASIDIOMICOTA) EN BOSQUE MONTANO HÚMEDO Y DE NIEBLA DE COLOMBIA

Angélica Ruiz; Amanda Varela


Archive | 2016

DISTRIBUCIÓN ESPACIAL, COMPOSICIÓN Y DENSIDAD DE EDAFOFAUNA EN HOJARASCA DE BOSQUE Y CAFETAL (MONTENEGRO, COLOMBIA) Spatial Distribution, Composition and Density of the Leaflitter Edaphofauna in Forest and Coffee Plantation (Montenegro,Colombia)

Diana Marcela Rueda-Ramírez; Amanda Varela; Salvador de Toledo; Piza


Bothalia | 2016

DISTRIBUCIÓN ESPACIAL, COMPOSICIÓN Y DENSIDAD DE EDAFOFAUNA EN HOJARASCA DE BOSQUE Y CAFETAL (MONTENEGRO, COLOMBIA)

Diana Marcela Rueda-Ramírez; Amanda Varela

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Diana Rueda-Ramírez

Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz

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Gilberto J. de Moraes

Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz

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Diana H. Wall

Colorado State University

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