Identifying potential threats to soil biodiversity [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 A decline in soil biodiversity is generally considered to be the reduction of forms of life living in soils, both in terms of quantity and variety.
Mark Tibbett +2 more
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Enumerating soil biodiversity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Soil is an immense habitat for diverse organisms across the tree of life, but just how many organisms live in soil is surprisingly unknown. Previous efforts to enumerate soil biodiversity consider only certain types of organisms (e.g., animals) or report values for diverse groups without partitioning species that live in soil versus other habitats ...
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden +2 more
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Mapping Soil Biodiversity in Europe and the Netherlands [PDF]
Soil Systems, 2019 Soil is fundamental for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, but our knowledge about soil organisms and the habitat they provide (shortly: Soil biodiversity) is poorly developed.
Michiel Rutgers +5 more
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Global changes and their environmental stressors have a significant impact on soil biodiversity—A meta-analysis [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Identifying the main threats to soil biodiversity is crucial as soils harbor ∼60% of global biodiversity. Many previous meta-analyses investigating the impact of different global changes (GCs) on biodiversity have omitted soil fauna or are ...
Helen R.P. Phillips +14 more
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Geologically younger ecosystems are more dependent on soil biodiversity for supporting function [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSoil biodiversity contains the metabolic toolbox supporting organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling in the soil. However, as soil develops over millions of years, the buildup of plant cover, soil carbon and microbial biomass may relax the ...
Jiao Feng +5 more
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Vegetation structure determines the spatial variability of soil biodiversity across biomes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 The factors controlling the spatial variability of soil biodiversity remain largely undetermined. We conducted a global field survey to evaluate how and why the within-site spatial variability of soil biodiversity (i.e. richness and community composition)
Jorge Durán, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
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Soil biodiversity and function under global change. [PDF]
PLoS BiologySoil organisms represent the most abundant and diverse organisms on the planet and support almost every ecosystem function we know, and thus impact our daily lives.
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo +5 more
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Impact of two hot and dry summers on the community structure and functional diversity of testate amoebae in an artificial bog, illustrating their use as bioindicators of peatland health [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2018 Ongoing climate warming threatens the survival of bogs at the warm/dry limit of their distribution (e.g. in central Europe), and jeopardises the restoration of damaged bogs even more.
I. Koenig +3 more
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Acta Protozoologica, 2022 Microbial diversity is known to be huge but remains only partly documented. Testate amoebae are a relatively well studied group or free-living protists that build morphologically characteristic shells
Anatoly Bobrov +2 more
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Positive associations fuel soil biodiversity and ecological networks worldwide [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaHaiyan Chu +2 more
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