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Articles | Volume 17, issue 20
Articles | Volume 17, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-4961-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-4961-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 20
Research article
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17 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 17 Oct 2020

Protists and collembolans alter microbial community composition, C dynamics and soil aggregation in simplified consumer–prey systems

Amandine Erktan, Matthias C. Rillig, Andrea Carminati, Alexandre Jousset, and Stefan Scheu

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Soil aggregation is crucial for soil functioning. While the role of bacteria and fungi in soil aggregation is well established, how predators feeding on microbes modify soil aggregation has hardly been investigated. We showed for the first time that protists modify soil aggregation, presumably through changes in the production of bacterial mucilage, and that collembolans reduce soil aggregation, presumably by reducing the abundance of saprotrophic fungi.
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