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Table 2 Nematode body-mass metrics (Divergence, FD, Evenness, FE, Richness, FR, and Overall Body-Mass Distribution, BMD) for the nine investigated ecosystem types (standard deviation in brackets) ranked according to increasing BMD mean values: Italics for all indices below (above) the first (third) quartile, underline for all indices above the national average (n = 200)

From: Unifying the functional diversity in natural and cultivated soils using the overall body-mass distribution of nematodes

 

FD

FE

FR

BMD (%)

Scots pine forests

0.024

0.625

0.410

35.3

 

 (± 0.008)

 (± 0.080)

 (± 0.044)

 (± 3.5)

Arable fields on clay

0.024

0.626

0.432

36.1

 

 (± 0.005)

 (± 0.066)

 (± 0.029)

 (± 2.8)

Dairy grasslands on clay

0.032

0.629

0.476

37.9

 

 (± 0.010)

 (± 0.052)

 (± 0.055)

 (± 2.3)

Arable fields on sand

0.027

0.650

0.464

38.0

 

 (± 0.009)

 (± 0.067)

 (± 0.056)

 (± 2.9)

Arable fields on Loess

0.031

0.632

0.487

38.3

 

 (± 0.007)

 (± 0.046)

 (± 0.047)

 (± 1.8)

Dairy grasslands on peat

0.033

0.664

0.486

39.4

 

 (± 0.011)

 (± 0.050)

 (± 0.055)

 (± 2.1)

Dairy grasslands on sand

0.034

0.658

0.501

39.7

 

 (± 0.009)

 (± 0.043)

 (± 0.051)

 (± 1.8)

Dry heathlands on sand

0.049

0.713

0.520

42.7

 

 (± 0.009)

 (± 0.037)

 (± 0.037)

 (± 1.5)

Organic farms on sand

0.048

0.705

0.561

43.8

 

 (± 0.010)

 (± 0.037)

 (± 0.050)

 (± 1.5)