Functional Guilds:

A combination of feeding habits defined as bacterivores, fungivores, predates and omnivores combined with the cp classification. A component of Faunal Analysis of the condition of the soil food web.

 

References:

Bongers, T. and M. Bongers. 1998. Functional diversity of nematodes. Appl. Soil Ecol. 10, 239–251.

Bongers, T. and H. Ferris.  1999.  Nematode community structure as a bioindicator in environmental monitoring.  Trends in Evolution and Ecology 14:224-228.

Ferris H. 2010. Form and function: metabolic footprints of nematodes in the soil food web. European Journal of Soil Biology 46:97-104.

Ferris, H., T. Bongers, and R. G. M. de Goede.  2001.  A framework for soil food web diagnostics:  extension of the nematode faunal analysis concept.  Applied Soil Ecology 18:13-29.

Sieriebriennikov, B., Ferris, H., de Goede, R.G.M. 2014. NINJA: An automated calculation system for nematode-based biological monitoring. European Journal of Soil Biology 61:90-93.

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