Responses of bryosphere fauna to drought across a boreal forest chronosequence

• Main Authors: Grau-Andrés, Roger, Thieffry, Sylvia, Tian, Shanyi, Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Geography; Climate Change; Mites
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164090
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Projected changes in precipitation regimes can greatly impact soil biota, which in turn alters key ecosystem functions. In moss-dominated ecosystems, the bryosphere (i.e., the ground moss layer including live and senesced moss) plays a key role in carbon and nutrient cycling, and it hosts high abund...