Tancredi Caruso

Publications

• Population asynchrony alone does not explain stability in species‐rich soil animal assemblages: The stabilizing role of forest age on oribatid mite communities
• Effects of nutrient fertilization on root decomposition and carbon accumulation in intensively managed grassland soils
• Upland grassland habitats and agri‐environment schemes change soil microarthropod abundance
• Nematodes in a polar desert reveal the relative role of biotic interactions in the coexistence of soil animals
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• Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states
• Improving phosphorus sustainability in intensively managed grasslands: The potential role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus
• Density Dependence and Single-Species Population Dynamics
• Unifying concepts of biological function from molecules to ecosystems
• Priorities for research in soil ecology
• Subsoil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in arable soil differ from those in topsoil
• Stochastic and Deterministic Effects of a Moisture Gradient on Soil Microbial Communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica
• Historical biome distribution and recent human disturbance shape the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Assessing soil ecosystem processes – biodiversity relationships in a nature reserve in Central Europe
• Fungal networks and orchid distribution: new insights from above- and below-ground analyses of fungal communities
• Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats
• Disentangling the factors shaping arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities across multiple spatial scales
• Effects of Paenibacillus polymyxa inoculation on below-ground nematode communities and plant growth
• Soil organic carbon dynamics matching ecological equilibrium theory
• Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology
• A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition
• Hedgerows as Ecosystems: Service Delivery, Management, and Restoration
• Biotic interactions are an unexpected yet critical control on the complexity of an abiotically driven polar ecosystem
• Oribatid mites show how climate and latitudinal gradients in organic matter can drive large‐scale biodiversity patterns of soil communities
• Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats
• Parthenogenetic vs . sexual reproduction in oribatid mite communities
• Variance, locality and structure: Three experimental challenges in the study of the response of soil microbial communities to multiple perturbations
• Oribatid mites reveal that competition for resources and trophic structure combine to regulate the assembly of diverse soil animal communities
• Fluctuating ecological networks: a synthesis of maximum entropy approaches for pattern and perturbation detection
• Modelling mutual interactions between soil structure and soil biological communities.
• Scavenging beetles control the temporal response of soil communities to carrion decomposition
• Analysis of macrofungal communities reveals a complex reciprocal influence between Mediterranean montane calcareous grassland and surrounding forest habitats
• Local stability properties of complex, species‐rich soil food webs with functional block structure
• The effect of swidden agriculture on ant communities in Madagascar
• Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale
• Unifying concepts of biological function from molecules to ecosystems
• Environmental filtering vs. resource-based niche partitioning in diverse soil animal assemblages
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae reduce soil erosion by surface water flow in a greenhouse experiment
• Soil microbes and community coalescence
• Eating from the same plate? Revisiting the role of labile carbon inputs in the soil food web
• Fungal diversity and specificity in Cephalanthera damasonium and C. longifolia (Orchidaceae) mycorrhizas
• Highly diverse urban soil communities: does stochasticity play a major role?
• Linking the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: a story of interdependence?
• The role of dispersal and local environment in urban land snail 5 assemblages: an example of three cities in Central Italy
• Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Soil and Hypolithic Microbial Communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
• Drought decreases incorporation of recent plant photosynthate into soil food webs regardless of their trophic complexity
• Trees in trimmed hedgerows but not tree health increase diversity of oribatid mite communities in intensively managed agricultural land
• Oribatid mites show that soil food web complexity and close aboveground-belowground linkages emerged in the early Paleozoic
• Short-term intensive warming shifts predator communities (Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata) in boreal forest soils
• Persistent organic pollutants and enzyme activities in European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from Orbetello lagoon
• Euclidean geometry explains why lengths allow precise body mass estimates in terrestrial invertebrates: The case of oribatid mites
• Biotic interactions as a structuring force in soil communities: Evidence from the micro-arthropods of an Antarctic moss model system
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities are phylogenetically clustered at small scales
• Functional role of microarthropods in soil aggregation
• Are power laws that estimate fractal dimension a good descriptor of soil structure and its link to soil biological properties?
• Biomonitoring of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) pollution: A field study
• Dietary switching of collembola in grassland soil food webs
• Metacommunities and symbiosis: hosts of challenges
• Plant community assembly at small scales: Spatial vs. environmental factors in a European grassland
• Relative role of deterministic and stochastic determinants of soil animal community: A spatially explicit analysis of oribatid mites
• Just a matter of time: Fungi and roots significantly and rapidly aggregate soil over four decades along the Tagliamento River, NE Italy
• On the application of network theory to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-plant interactions: The importance of basic assumptions
• Indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages protect grassland host plants from pathogens
• Determinants of root-associated fungal communities within Asteraceae in a semi-arid grassland
• Spatial autocorrelation in the response of soft-bottom marine benthos to gas extraction activities: The case of amphipods in the Ionian Sea
• Direct, positive feedbacks produce instability in models of interrelationships among soil structure, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Erratum to "A new formulation of the geometric series with applications to oribatid (Acari, Oribatida) species assemblages from human-disturbed Mediterranean areas" [Ecol. Model. 195 (3-4) (2006) 402-406] (DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.11.042)
• Interchange of entire communities: Microbial community coalescence
• Effects of soil pollutants, biogeochemistry and microbiology on the distribution and composition of enchytraeid communities in urban and suburban holm oak stands
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - short-term liability but long-term benefits for soil carbon storage?
• Identifying appropriate sampling and modelling approaches for analysing distributional patterns of Antarctic terrestrial arthropods along the Victoria Land latitudinal gradient
• Community structure, diversity and spatial organization of enchytraeids in Mediterranean urban holm oak stands
• Biomonitoring aquatic environmental quality in a marine protected area: A biomarker approach
• Testing metabolic scaling theory using intraspecific allometries in Antarctic microarthropods
• Disturbance, neutral theory, and patterns of beta diversity in soil communities
• Choosing and using diversity indices: Insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories
• Photosynthetic pigments in soils from northern Victoria Land (continental Antarctica) as proxies for soil algal community structure and function
• The Berger-Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: A case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages
• An update on sedimentary pigments in Victoria Land Lakes (East Antarctica)
• Temporal variation in the water chemistry of northern Victoria Land lakes (Antarctica)
• Micro-arthropod communities under human disturbance: is taxonomic aggregation a valuable tool for detecting multivariate change? Evidence from Mediterranean soil oribatid coenoses
• Stochastic and deterministic processes interact in the assembly of desert microbial communities on a global scale
• Interactive effects of root endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on an experimental plant community
• Statistical notes to "The Berger-Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: A case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages" [Biodiversity and Conservation DOI 10.1007/s10531-006-9137-3]
• Modelling local-scale determinants and the probability of microarthropod species occurrence in Antarctic soils
• A new formulation of the geometric series with applications to oribatid (Acari, Oribatida) species assemblages from human-disturbed Mediterranean areas
• Modelling the environmental and soil factors that shape the niches of two common arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal families
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and collembola non-additively increase soilaggregation
• Population dynamics of an urban population of the land Snail Marmorana serpentina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)
• Primary assembly of soil communities: Disentangling the effect of dispersal and local environment
• Assessing abundance and diversity patterns of soil microarthropod assemblages in northern Victoria Land (Antarctica)
• Phase I and II biotransformation enzymes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Lamarck, 1819) collected in front of an oil refinery
• The size and shape of shells used by hermit crabs: A multivariate analysis of Clibanarius erythropus
• Large-scale spatial patterns in the distribution of Collembola (Hexapoda) species in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems
• Compositional divergence and convergence in local communities and spatially structured landscapes
• Spatial patterns and autocorrelation in the response of microarthropods to soil pollutants: The example of oribatid mites in an abandoned mining and smelting area
• Diversity and abundance of soil arthropods in urban and suburban holm oak stands
• Compositional divergence and convergence in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities
• Role of predators, habitat attributes, and spatial autocorrelation on the distribution of eggs in the northern spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata)
• Do hermit crabs like living in sponges? Paguristes eremita and Suberites domuncula: Biometric data from the southern Mediterranean Sea
• Soil communities (Acari Oribatida; Hexapoda Collembola) in a clay pigeon shooting range
• The Euscorpius tergestinus (C.L. Koch, 1837) complex in Italy: Biometrics of sympatric hidden species (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae)
• Decapoda Brachyura from Monte Argentario (Mediterranean sea, central Tyrrhenian)
• The effects of spatial scale on the assessment of soil fauna diversity: Data from the oribatid mite community of the Pelagian Islands (Sicilian Channel, southern Mediterranean)
• Note on a deep population of Pagurus prideaux Leach, 1815 (Decapoda, Anomura)
• Decapoda Anomura Paguridea: Morpho-functional relationships and influence of epibiotic anemones on shell use along a bathymetric cline
• Contamination and sub-lethal toxicological effects of persistent organic pollutants in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the Orbetello lagoon (Tuscany, Italy)
• Plant-soil feedbacks buffer plant communities from extinction risks in unpredictable environments
• “Jack‐of‐all‐trades” is parthenogenetic
• A general stochastic model shows that plant-soil feedbacks can buffer plant species from extinction risks in unpredictable environments
• Fluctuating ecological networks: A synthesis of maximum‐entropy approaches for pattern detection and process inference
• Intensive grassland management disrupts below-ground multi-trophic resource transfer in response to drought
• Parthenogenetic vs. sexual reproduction in oribatid mite communities