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Tancredi Caruso is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Study of Mite Species
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tancredi Caruso include:

  • Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Hedgerows as Ecosystems: Service Delivery, Management, and Restoration (2020), published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition (2020), published in Scientific Data
  • Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus (2020), published in Biology Letters
  • New perspectives on soil animal trophic ecology through the lens of C and N stable isotope ratios of oribatid mites (2022), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Tancredi Caruso frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Richard D. Bardgett
  • Matthias C. Rillig
  • David Johnson
  • Fiona Brennan
  • Stefan Scheu

Their work appears in several key academic venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Functional Ecology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Choosing and using diversity indices: Insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories

    E. Kathryn Morris;E. Kathryn Morris;Tancredi Caruso;François Buscot;François Buscot;Markus Fischer

  • Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Devin Routh;Howard Ferris

  • Stochastic and deterministic processes interact in the assembly of desert microbial communities on a global scale

    Tancredi Caruso;Yuki Chan;Donnabella C Lacap;Maggie C Y Lau

  • Interchange of entire communities: microbial community coalescence.

    Matthias C. Rillig;Janis Antonovics;Tancredi Caruso;Anika Lehmann

  • Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states

    Richard D. Bardgett;Tancredi Caruso;Tancredi Caruso

  • Hedgerows as ecosystems: service delivery, management and restoration

    Ian Montgomery;Tancredi Caruso;Neil Reid

  • Relative role of deterministic and stochastic determinants of soil animal community: a spatially explicit analysis of oribatid mites

    Tancredi Caruso;Mauro Taormina;Massimo Migliorini

  • Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats

    Stephen David James Archer;Stephen David James Archer;Kevin C. Lee;Tancredi Caruso;Teruya Maki

  • The Berger-Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: a case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages

    Tancredi Caruso;Gaia Pigino;Fabio Bernini;Roberto Bargagli

  • Eating from the same plate? Revisiting the role of labile carbon inputs in the soil food web

    Franciska T de Vries;Tancredi Caruso

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities are phylogenetically clustered at small scales

    Sebastian Horn;Tancredi Caruso;Erik Verbruggen;Matthias C Rillig

  • Linking the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: a story of interdependence?

    Sebastian Horn;Stefan Hempel;Erik Verbruggen;Matthias C Rillig

  • Functional role of microarthropods in soil aggregation

    Stefanie Maaß;Tancredi Caruso;Matthias C. Rillig

  • Determinants of root-associated fungal communities within Asteraceae in a semi-arid grassland

    Jeannine Wehner;Jeff R. Powell;Ludo A. H. Muller;Tancredi Caruso

  • Priorities for research in soil ecology

    Nico Eisenhauer;Pedro M Antunes;Alison E Bennett;Klaus Birkhofer

  • A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Diana H. Wall;David A. Wardle

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae reduce soil erosion by surface water flow in a greenhouse experiment

    Ulfah Mardhiah;Tancredi Caruso;Angela Gurnell;Matthias C. Rillig

  • Primary assembly of soil communities: disentangling the effect of dispersal and local environment.

    María Ingimarsdóttir;Tancredi Caruso;Jörgen Ripa;Ólöf Birna Magnúsdóttir

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and collembola non-additively increase soil aggregation

    Md. Rezaul Karim Siddiky;Jörg Schaller;Tancredi Caruso;Matthias C. Rillig

  • Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus.

    Elisa Bergami;Emilia Rota;Tancredi Caruso;Giovanni Birarda

  • Compositional divergence and convergence in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities.

    T Caruso;S Hempel;J. R. Powell;J. R. Powell;E. K. Barto

  • Soil communities (Acari Oribatida; Hexapoda Collembola) in a clay pigeon shooting range

    Massimo Migliorini;Gaia Pigino;Tancredi Caruso;Pietro Paolo Fanciulli

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin
Roberto Bargagli
Roberto Bargagli University of Siena
Stephen B. Pointing
Stephen B. Pointing National University of Singapore
Stefan Hempel
Stefan Hempel Freie Universität Berlin
Ilaria Corsi
Ilaria Corsi University of Siena
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Stavros D. Veresoglou
Stavros D. Veresoglou Freie Universität Berlin
Jeff R. Powell
Jeff R. Powell Western Sydney University
Ian D. Hogg
Ian D. Hogg University of Waikato
Don A. Cowan
Don A. Cowan University of Pretoria

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