Journal
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
Volume 95, Issue 2, Pages 350-364Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12567
Keywords
biodiversity theory; alpha diversity; beta diversity; spatial scale; species-energy relationship; theory of island biogeography; metacommunity theory; niche theory; neutral theory
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Funding
- sDiv [Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig] [DFG FZT 118]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [TH 2307/1-1]
- sDiv [DFG FZT 118]
- TULIP Laboratory of Excellence [ANR-10-LABX-41]
- ERC [ERC-ADV 694368, ERC-ADV 323020]
- BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship [BB/L02456X/1]
- European Research Council (ERC) [677232]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [641762-ECOPOTENTIAL]
- Academy of Finland [285882]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [471903, RGPIN-2019-05758]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [285882, 285882] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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Soil is one of the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats. Yet, we lack an integrative conceptual framework for understanding the patterns and mechanisms driving soil biodiversity. One of the underlying reasons for our poor understanding of soil biodiversity patterns relates to whether key biodiversity theories (historically developed for aboveground and aquatic organisms) are applicable to patterns of soil biodiversity. Here, we present a systematic literature review to investigate whether and how key biodiversity theories (species-energy relationship, theory of island biogeography, metacommunity theory, niche theory and neutral theory) can explain observed patterns of soil biodiversity. We then discuss two spatial compartments nested within soil at which biodiversity theories can be applied to acknowledge the scale-dependent nature of soil biodiversity.
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