Affiliations:
1*Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden Universiteit, Einsteinweg 2, 2333CC Leiden, The Netherlands M.J.J.Schrama@cml.leidenuniv.nl / + 31 – 6 33045377 (corresponding author)
2Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michael Smith Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
3Biosystematics group, Wageningen UR, Droevendaalse steeg 1, 6708PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
4Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen UR, Droevendaalse steeg 1, 6708PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
5Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen UR, Wageningen, The Netherlands
6 Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
7Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg, Denmark
8Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0216, USA
9Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Author statement : MH, RDB, CQ initiated the study, collected and analysed data, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript, with significant input from NF. GAG, EC, DA, IL, LHH JL and NF analysed molecular data, and all authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript.
Article Type: Letter
Key Words: soil fauna, soil microbes, grazing, soil communities, long-term experiments, land abandonment, biotic homogenization, β-diversity, ɑ-diversity