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Soil Nematode in Forests

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 2788

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Silvia Landi

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Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA) – Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification Via di Lanciola 12/A, Cascine del Riccio, 50125 Florence, Italy
Interests: soil nematodes; biodiversity; ecosystem services
Dr. Pio Federico Roversi

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Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA) – Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification Via di Lanciola 12/A, Cascine del Riccio, 50125 Florence, Italy
Interests: nematode biodiversity; forest management
Dr. Giada D'Errico

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II Via Università 100, 80056 Portici (Naples), Italy
Interests: soil nematodes; crop protection
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Dear Colleagues,

The biodiversity of nematode communities has increasingly been used to assess the status of environmental ecological conditions for several habitats. Free-living and plant-parasitic nematodes play a crucial role in the functioning of different ecosystems (especially forests) through complex interactions with other organisms. Since nematodes occupy all consumer trophic levels within the soil food web and quickly respond to disturbing factors, they are considered good bioindicators of forest soil quality and condition. In order to understand the impact of human activities and climate changes on soil ecosystems, several monitoring systems of changes in the community structure and ecosystem functions have been assessed. In this context, biotic indices are useful to investigate the environment complexity and efficiency of food web regulation. The biodiversity of nematodes as well as their role in forest ecosystems still need to be better understood. Original research papers and review articles in all fields of nematology providing knowledge regarding the diversity and ecology of forests soil nematodes and their role in ecosystems are welcome.

Dr. Silvia Landi
Dr. Pio Federico Roversi
Dr. Giada D'Errico
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Keywords

  • soil quality
  • biodiversity
  • soil nematode structure
  • soil nematode indicators
  • ecosystem services
  • forest management
  • forest nursery
  • climatic changes

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Environmental Factors Indirectly Impact the Nematode Carbon Budget of Subalpine Spruce Forests
by Hongyang Zhou, Kaiwen Pan, Xiaoming Sun, Belayneh Azene, Piotr Gruba, Xiaogang Wu, Lin Zhang, Meng Zhang, Tianwen Tang and Renhuan Zhu
Forests 2022, 13(3), 462; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13030462 - 16 Mar 2022
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Nematodes play a significant role in soil biogeochemical cycling. However, our understanding of their community carbon budget response for a shift in the environmental conditions of natural and planted forests is limited. Therefore, we investigated the nematode community composition, daily carbon used in [...] Read more.
Nematodes play a significant role in soil biogeochemical cycling. However, our understanding of their community carbon budget response for a shift in the environmental conditions of natural and planted forests is limited. Therefore, we investigated the nematode community composition, daily carbon used in production and daily carbon budget, environmental variables, and the interaction among trophic groups in the moss, litter and 0–5 cm soil layers of natural subalpine spruce forest and plantations in western Sichuan, China. The result revealed that plantations increased the total nematode daily carbon budget by approximately 52% through the herbivore channel in the 0–5 cm soil layer. The herbivorous nematodes’ daily carbon budget and production in the moss layer of plantations decreased by approximately 60% compared to natural forests. Nematode daily carbon used in production and carbon budget had a strong negative correlation with genus richness. The water content and total carbon was the most important environmental factor that affected the nematode carbon budget and production, respectively. However, the environmental factors indirectly affect the daily carbon budget of herbivore nematodes through omnivore top-down control in subalpine forest ecosystems. Our findings highlight that the planted ecosystems have a certain capacity to maintain abundance, richness, and carbon budget of soil nematode but increase the risk of herbivorous pests. Full article
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