Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/25:10514000
Result on the web
<a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14720" target="_blank" >https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14720</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14720" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2435.14720</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation
Original language description
Soil organic matter (SOM) transformation processes are regulated by the activities of plants, microbes, and fauna. Compared with plants and microbes, effects of soil fauna are less understood because of their high taxonomic and functional diversity, and mix of direct and indirect effect mechanisms. Trait-based approaches offer a generic perspective to quantify mechanistic relationships between soil fauna and SOM transformations, including decomposition, translocation, and stabilisation of organic carbon. Yet, at present, we lack a consensus concerning relevant key effect traits of soil fauna (i.e. those affecting ecosystem functioning). Here, we address this knowledge gap by focusing on relationships between soil fauna effect traits and SOM transformations. Based on existing literature, we identify key processes linked to SOM transformations, and fauna effect traits universally applicable across taxa and soil types, and discuss the process-trait links. We define eight SOM transformation processes that are directly affected by soil fauna: (i) litter mass loss, (ii) litter fragmentation, (iii) SOM aggregation in faeces, (iv) SOM aggregation in soil mineral particles, (v) decomposition of faeces, (vi) SOM and mineral translocation, (vii) pore space creation and maintenance and (viii) SOM stabilisation. We link these processes to general effect traits classified into four categories: (a) food selection and ingestion, (b), digestion and excretion, (c) mobility, and (d) body mass and metabolic rate. We also propose proxies when effect trait measurements are laborious. The proposed links between effect traits and SOM transformation processes need to be validated in targeted experiments. We urge researchers to obtain quantitative experimental data, together with metabolic approaches, to integratively quantify soil fauna contributions to soil functioning.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40104 - Soil science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA24-10574S" target="_blank" >GA24-10574S: Loners or team players: how do interactions of earthworms and other soil faunal taxa regulate soil organic carbon contents and stability?</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Functional Ecology
ISSN
0269-8463
e-ISSN
1365-2435
Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
446-461
UT code for WoS article
001380704100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85212499953