Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera—an outline for soil ecologists

GW Yeates, T Bongers, RGM De Goede… - Journal of …, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Because research on nematode involvement in trophic interactions, foodweb structure, and
biodiversity is constrained by lack of an overview of nematode feeding habits, this outline …

Nematode community structure as a bioindicator in environmental monitoring

T Bongers, H Ferris - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1999 - cell.com
Four of every five multicellular animals on the planet are nematodes. They occupy any niche
that provides an available source of organic carbon in marine, freshwater and terrestrial …

The maturity index: an ecological measure of environmental disturbance based on nematode species composition

T Bongers - Oecologia, 1990 - Springer
Nematode assemblages constitute a potential instrument for assessing the quality of submersed,
temporarily submersed, and terrestrial soils and for the development of an ecological …

A framework for soil food web diagnostics: extension of the nematode faunal analysis concept

H Ferris, T Bongers, RGM de Goede - Applied soil ecology, 2001 - Elsevier
Nematodes, the earth’s most abundant metazoa, are ubiquitous in the soil environment. They
are sufficiently large to be identifiable by light microscopy and sufficiently small to inhabit …

Functional diversity of nematodes

T Bongers, M Bongers - Applied soil ecology, 1998 - Elsevier
Nematodes are the most abundant metazoa. Their food specificity, the high number of species
and high abundance in every habitat where decomposition takes place indicates that the …

Phylum-wide analysis of SSU rDNA reveals deep phylogenetic relationships among nematodes and accelerated evolution toward crown clades

…, H van Megen, T Bongers… - Molecular biology …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Inference of evolutionary relationships between nematodes is severely hampered by their
conserved morphology, the high frequency of homoplasy, and the scarcity of phylum-wide …

A phylogenetic tree of nematodes based on about 1200 full-length small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences

…, M Holterman, G Karssen, P Mooyman, T Bongers… - Nematology, 2009 - brill.com
As a result of the scarcity of informative morphological and anatomical characters, nematode
systematics have always been volatile. Differences in the appreciation of these characters …

Time course and differential responses of the major heat shock protein families in human skeletal muscle following acute nondamaging treadmill exercise

…, NT Cable, T Bongers… - Journal of applied …, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
The exercise-induced expression of heat shock proteins (HSPs) in rodent models is relatively
well defined. In contrast, comparable data from human studies are limited and the exercise-…

Interpretation of disturbance-induced maturity decrease in marine nematode assemblages by means of the Maturity Index

T Bongers, R Alkemade, GW Yeates - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1991 - JSTOR
Nematode assemblages offer possibilities for the development of a system to assess the 'quality'
of aquatic habitats. Assessment of disturbances in brackish and marine habitats is …

The Maturity Index, the evolution of nematode life history traits, adaptive radiation and cp-scaling

T Bongers - Plant and soil, 1999 - Springer
Nematodes are increasingly being used in environmental studies. One of the potential
parameters to measure the impact of disturbances and to monitor changes in structure and …