Summary
Mountain forests play a major role for biodiversity conservation, carbon storage and hydrological cycling. Therefore, understanding different components of mountain forest ecosystems is essential to predict potential responses to global climate change. To study such responses, the investigation of elevational gradients is an important tool as they comprise a wide range of climatic variables on a small spatial scale. While changes in aboveground biodiversity along elevational gradients have been studied intensively, information on belowground systems is scarce. Besides studies focusing on litter decomposition, there is few comprehensive data available on how food web functioning changes across elevations. The soil food web is a major component of nutrient cycling within forest systems and t
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