Abstract Background and Aims Forest floor vegetation can both respond to and affect the water and nitrogen (N) availability in forest ecosystems. However, their role for influencing the relationship between throughfall and N fluxes has hardly been studied, leaving a knowledge gap in our mechanistic understanding…
Purpose: The woolly beech aphid thrives on European beech leaves, which has complex direct and indirect impacts on above- and belowground processes. A mechanistic understanding of insect-mediated changes in organic carbon (OC) availability for microbial life and its implications for element cycling is…
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022-02-02
Abstract As a cause of ecosystem disturbances, phytophagous insects are known to directly influence the element and organic matter (OM) cycling in ecosystems by their defoliation and excretion activity. This study focuses on the interplay between short‐term, insect herbivory, plant responses to feeding…