Four of every five multicellular animals on the planet are nematodes. They occupy any niche
that provides an available source of organic carbon in marine, freshwater and terrestrial …

Insulin receptors, as well as IGF-1 receptors and their postreceptor signaling partners, are
distributed throughout the brain. Insulin acts on these receptors to modulate peripheral …

This review by a multidisciplinary team maps key components and emerging connections
within the intellectual landscape of agroecology. We attempt to extend and preview …

Nematodes, the earth’s most abundant metazoa, are ubiquitous in the soil environment. They
are sufficiently large to be identifiable by light microscopy and sufficiently small to inhabit …

Soil organisms are a crucial part of the terrestrial biosphere. Despite their importance for
ecosystem functioning, few quantitative, spatially explicit models of the active belowground …

Two efficient, senti-automatic elutriators for assaying soil samples for nematodes are
described. The first apparatus is a four-unit elutriator which combines conventional extraction …

Soil microplots were amended with organic materials of varying nature and complexity but
providing similar amounts of carbon. Materials were either placed on the soil surface or …

We tested the hypotheses that management of the soil food web in the fall would enhance
grazing on bacteria and fungi by microbivorous nematodes in the spring, consequently …

… This paper extends the ecosystem assessments of Ferris et al. [14] to estimate the biomass
and metabolic activity associated with each functional attribute of the food web. It builds on …

The organisms of the soil food web, dependent on resources from plants or on amendment
from other sources, respond characteristically to enrichment of their environment by organic …