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List of works by Matty P. Berg

17 years of grassland management leads to parallel local and regional biodiversity shifts among a wide range of taxonomic groups

A Common Yardstick to Measure the Effects of Different Extreme Climatic Events on Soil Arthropod Community Composition Using Time-Series Data

article

A functional trait approach to identifying life history patterns in stochastic environments

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

article

A simple experimental set-up to disentangle the effects of altered temperature and moisture regimes on soil organisms

scientific article published in 2015

A trait‐based framework for dung beetle functional ecology

scientific article published in 2022

Acclimation responses to temperature vary with vertical stratification: implications for vulnerability of soil-dwelling species to extreme temperature events

scientific article

Adapt or disperse: understanding species persistence in a changing world

Amounts of litter fall in some pine forests in a European transect, in particular Scots pine

article by Björn Berg et al published 1999 in Annales des Sciences Forestières

An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery

scientific article published in 2012

Apterygota in the spotlights of ecology, evolution and genomics

Apterygota special issue of the European Journal of Soil Biology

Assessment of structure and function in metal polluted grasslands using Terrestrial Model Ecosystems.

scientific article

Biodiversity effects on soil processes explained by interspecific functional dissimilarity.

scientific article

Biodiversity of collembola on green roofs: A case study of three cities in Belgium

scientific article published in 2022

Changes in chemical composition of Pinus sylvestris needle litter during decomposition along a European coniferous forest climatic transect

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Climatic and biotic extreme events moderate long-term responses of above- and belowground sub-Arctic heathland communities to climate change

scientific article

Coevolutionary legacies for plant decomposition

scientific article published in 2023

Collembola help lichens in competition with algae

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Combining tree species and decay stages to increase invertebrate diversity in dead wood

scientific article published in 2019

Community food web, decomposition and nitrogen mineralisation in a stratified Scots pine forest soil

article by Matty P. Berg et al published July 2001 in Oikos

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article

Controls on coarse wood decay in temperate tree species: birth of the LOGLIFE experiment

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures across biomes: The role of litter identity, diversity and soil fauna

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Decoupled diversity dynamics in green and brown webs during primary succession in a saltmarsh

scientific article

Desiccation resistance determines distribution of woodlice along forest edge-to-interior gradients

Determinants of patchiness of woody vegetation in an African savanna

Disentangling community functional components in a litter-macrodetritivore model system reveals the predominance of the mass ratio hypothesis

scientific article

Disentangling the effects of plant species invasion and urban development on arthropod community composition ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Disturbance–diversity relationships for soil fauna are explained by faunal community biomass in a salt marsh

scholarly article by Madhav Prakash Thakur et al published November 2014 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Diversity in form and function: Vertical distribution of soil fauna mediates multidimensional trait variation

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Diversity of macro-detritivores in dead wood is influenced by tree species, decay stage and environment

Do physical plant litter traits explain non-additivity in litter mixtures? A test of the improved microenvironmental conditions theory

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Ecological autocatalysis: a central principle in ecosystem organization?

scientific article published in 2018

Ecomorphological adaptations in Collembola in relation to feeding strategies and microhabitat

Ecomorphological groups in oribatid mite communities shift with time after topsoil removal – Insight from multi-trait approaches during succession in restored heathlands

scientific article published in 2023

Ecosystem assembly rules: the interplay of green and brown webs during salt marsh succession

scientific article published in November 2012

Editorial

scholarly article by Matty P. Berg et al published November 2014 in Applied Soil Ecology

Editorial

Effects of body size and lung type on desiccation resistance, hypoxia tolerance and thermal preference in two terrestrial isopods species

scientific article published in 2021

Enhancing ecological integrity while preserving ecosystem services: Constructing soft‐sediment islands in a shallow lake

scientific article

Environmental factors at different spatial scales governing soil fauna community patterns in fragmented forests

scientific article published in 2012

Evolutionary ecology of beta-lactam gene clusters in animals

scientific article

Exotic or not, leaf trait dissimilarity modulates the effect of dominant species on mixed litter decomposition

article

Exploring the Relationship Among Lipid Profile Changes, Growth, and Reproduction in <i>Folsomia candida</i> Exposed to Teflubenzuron Over Time

Faunal community consequence of interspecific bark trait dissimilarity in early-stage decomposing logs

scientific article published in 2016

Feeding guilds in Collembola based on digestive enzymes

Food Web Assembly at the Landscape Scale: Using Stable Isotopes to Reveal Changes in Trophic Structure During Succession

Food Web Uncertainties Influence Predictions of Climate Change Effects on Soil Carbon Sequestration in Heathlands

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Functional diversity of Collembola is reduced in soils subjected to short-term, but not long-term, geothermal warming

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Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

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Genotypic richness and phenotypic dissimilarity enhance population performance

scientific article

Global change effects on a mechanistic decomposer food web model

article published in 2005

Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails

Grassland structural heterogeneity in a savanna is driven more by productivity differences than by consumption differences between lawn and bunch grasses

scientific article published on 13 August 2016

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

scientific article published in 2016

Heated communities: large inter- and intraspecific variation in heat tolerance across trophic levels of a soil arthropod community

scientific article

Herbivore trampling as an alternative pathway for explaining differences in nitrogen mineralization in moist grasslands

scientific article published on 28 December 2012

Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 26 June 2012

How extreme is an extreme climatic event to a subarctic peatland springtail community?

How the litter-feeding bioturbatorOrchestia gammarelluspromotes late-successional saltmarsh vegetation

scholarly article by Maarten Schrama et al published 11 May 2015 in Journal of Ecology

Identification of metal-responsive oribatid mites in a comparative survey of polluted soils

Impact of Multiple Ecological Stressors on a Sub-Arctic Ecosystem: No Interaction Between Extreme Winter Warming Events, Nitrogen Addition and Grazing

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Impact of grazing management on hibernating caterpillars of the butterfly Melitaea cinxia in calcareous grasslands

article by C. G. E. van Noordwijk et al published 29 March 2012 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Importance of environmental and spatial components for species and trait composition in terrestrial snail communities

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Influences of the bark economics spectrum and positive termite feedback on bark and xylem decomposition

scientific article published on 16 July 2021

Intraspecific niche partitioning in macrodetritivores enhances mixed leaf litter decomposition

scientific article published on 08 September 2019

Is there a tree economics spectrum of decomposability?

KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models. I. review and model concept

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Landscape geological age explains large scale spatial trends in oribatid mite diversity

article published in 2012

Larger phylogenetic distances in litter mixtures: lower microbial biomass and higher C/N ratios but equal mass loss

scientific article published in May 2015

Leaf litter quality drives litter mixing effects through complementary resource use among detritivores

scientific article

Linking Bacterial Communities Associated with the Environment and the Ecosystem Engineer Orchestia gammarellus at Contrasting Salt Marsh Elevations

scientific article published on 09 January 2021

Linking macrodetritivore distribution to desiccation resistance in small forest fragments embedded in agricultural landscapes in Europe

scientific article published in 2018

Litter for life: assessing the multifunctional legacy of plant traits

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Living Litter: Dynamic Trait Spectra Predict Fauna Composition

scientific article published on 07 June 2020

Long-term effects of plant diversity and composition on soil nematode communities in model grasslands

scientific article

Macro-detritivore identity drives leaf litter diversity effects

scientific article published on 16 December 2010

Mass-length and mass-volume relationships of larvae ofBradysia paupera (Diptera: Sciaridae) in laboratory cultures

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Measuring feeding traits of a range of litter-consuming terrestrial snails: leaf litter consumption, faeces production and scaling with body size

scientific article published on 20 February 2015

Micro-arthropod community responses to ecosystem retrogression in boreal forest

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Modelling carbon dynamics in coniferous forest soils in a temperature gradient

article published in 2002

Nonadditive effects of consumption in an intertidal macroinvertebrate community are independent of food availability but driven by complementarity effects.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Northern peatland Collembola communities unaffected by three summers of simulated extreme precipitation

article

On the need for phylogenetic ‘corrections’ in functional trait-based approaches

scholarly article by Francesco de Bello et al published 5 October 2015 in Folia Geobotanica

Parallel ecological networks in ecosystems

scientific article

Phylogenies of traits and functions in soil invertebrate assemblages

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Plant Secondary Compounds in Soil and Their Role in Belowground Species Interactions

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Potential macro-detritivore range expansion into the subarctic stimulates litter decomposition: a new positive feedback mechanism to climate change?

scientific article

Productivity affects the density–body mass relationship of soil fauna communities

scholarly article by Vincent Comor et al published May 2014 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Reciprocal bark exchange helps to disentangle tree species‐dependent bark and wood trait effects on invertebrate diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

scholarly article by Jorge Ari Noriega et al published February 2018 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Reservations about preservations: storage methods affect δ13C signatures differently even in closely related soil fauna

scientific article published in 2011

Response of protozoan and microbial communities in various coniferous forest soils after transfer to forests with different levels of atmospheric pollution

article by Marie-Madeleine Coûteaux et al published 19 June 1998 in Biology and Fertility of Soils

SPATIAL ASPECTS OF FOOD WEBS

Salt Marsh Elevation Drives Root Microbial Composition of the Native Invasive Grass Elytrigia atherica ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Scientists' warning on climate change and insects ⬇️

journal article from 'Ecological Monographs' published in 2022

Secondary compounds increase litter removal by termites across 23 savanna grass species

scientific article published on 29 July 2024

Small-scale Collembola community composition in a pine forest soil – Overdispersion in functional traits indicates the importance of species interactions

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Soil fauna diversity increases CO2 but suppresses N2 O emissions from soil

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Soil fauna through the landscape window: factors shaping surface-and soil-dwelling communities across spatial scales in cork-oak mosaics

scientific article published in 2015

Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

Soil fauna–microbe interactions: towards a conceptual framework for research

Soil invertebrate fauna enhances grassland succession and diversity

scientific article published in April 2003

Soil microorganisms control plant ectoparasitic nematodes in natural coastal foredunes

scientific article published on 8 March 2007

Spatial redistribution of nutrients by large herbivores and dung beetles in a savanna ecosystem

scientific article published in 2017

Spatially structured environmental filtering of collembolan traits in late successional salt marsh vegetation

scientific article published on 23 May 2015

Species-area relationships are modulated by trophic rank, habitat affinity, and dispersal ability

scientific article published on February 2015

Stress responses investigated; application of zinc and heat to Terrestrial Model Ecosystems from heavy metal polluted grassland.

scientific article

Stress-resistance traits disrupt the plant economics - decomposition relationship across environmental gradients in salt marshes

scientific article published on 08 May 2021

Suitability of wheat straw decomposition, cotton strip degradation and bait-lamina feeding tests to determine soil invertebrate activity ⬇️

scholarly article

Suitability of wheat straw decomposition, cotton strip degradation and bait-lamina feeding tests to determine soil invertebrate activity

scientific article published in 2003

Temperature responses in a subarctic springtail from two geothermally warmed habitats

Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates

Temporal and spatial variability in soil food web structure

article published in 2007

Temporal and spatial variability in soil food web structure

scientific article published on 03 December 2007

Temporal dynamics of soil nematode communities in a grassland plant diversity experiment

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Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Termites promote resistance of decomposition to spatiotemporal variability in rainfall

scientific article

The (w)hole story: Facilitation of dead wood fauna by bark beetles?

The Importance of Coprophagous Macrodetritivores for the Maintenance of Vegetation Heterogeneity in an African Savannah

The metamicrobiome: key determinant of the homeostasis of nutrient recycling

scientific article published in 2023

Towards a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of nitrogen deposition on producer–consumer interactions

scientific article published in 2023

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

article by Francesco de Bello et al published 10 April 2010 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Trait plasticity in species interactions: a driving force of community dynamics

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Traits explain the responses of a sub-arctic Collembola community to climate manipulation

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Traits underpinning desiccation resistance explain distribution patterns of terrestrial isopods

scientific article

Tree leaf and root traits mediate soil faunal contribution to litter decomposition across an elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2018

Trophic interactions in a changing world: modelling aboveground–belowground interactions

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Turning northern peatlands upside down: disentangling microclimate and substrate quality effects on vertical distribution of Collembola

scientific article published in 2010

Underdispersion and overdispersion of traits in terrestrial snail communities on islands

scientific article

Understanding nutrient dynamics in an African savanna: local biotic interactions outweigh a major regional rainfall gradient

scientific article published in 2016

VARIABILITY IN SOIL FOOD WEB STRUCTURE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

Vascular plant litter input in subarctic peat bogs changes Collembola diets and decomposition patterns

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