Past Project: Soil fauna response to woody encroachment

Woody plant encroachment into grass-dominated ecosystems is a globally extensive shift in plant community structure that alters key processes at ecosystem, regional, and global scales. As part of the Stable Isotope lab at Texas A&M University we measured the influence of this structural change on the biodiversity and trophic structure of belowground biological communities. 

Researches testing the soil

Publications (Please contact me if you would like a reprint)

Biederman LA, Boutton TW. 2010. Spatial variation in biodiversity and trophic structure of soil nematode communities in a subtropical savanna parkland: Responses to woody plant encroachment. Applied Soil Ecology

Biederman LA, Boutton TW. 2009. Biodiversity and tropic structure of soil nematode communities are altered following woody plant invasion of grasslands. Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Datasets

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