Diversity and specificity of lipid patterns in basal soil food web resources.

ABSTRACT: Soil food webs are important drivers for key ecological functions in terrestrial systems such as carbon and nutrient cycling. However, soil food web models generally lack quantitative data, mainly due to the shortage in high-throughput methods to describe energy flows. In marine environments, multivariate optimization models (Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis) and Bayesian approaches (source-tracking algorithm) were established to predict the proportion of predator diets using lipids as tracers. A premise for the application of such models to soil systems is to acquire the fatty acid pattern of a broad range of resources and to reveal potential overlap in their signatures. We present a comprehensive comparison of lipid pattern across widespread taxa of plants (leaves and roots, n

SUBMITTER: Kuhn J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701827 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature