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Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following glacier retreat

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Losapio G   +7 more
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Soil biodiversity and human health

Nature, 2015
Soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized as providing benefits to human health because it can suppress disease-causing soil organisms and provide clean air, water and food. Poor land-management practices and environmental change are, however, affecting belowground communities globally, and the resulting declines in soil biodiversity reduce and ...
Diana H Wall, Uffe N Nielsen, Johan Six
exaly   +6 more sources

Deforestation impacts soil biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Significance Deforestation alters aboveground biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. Yet, the impacts of deforestation on soil biodiversity, and its associated ecosystem services, remain virtually unknown.
Xinjing Qu   +11 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Restoring soil biodiversity

Current Biology
Soil health is crucial for all terrestrial life, supporting, among other processes, food production, water purification and carbon sequestration. Soil biodiversity - the variety of life within soils - is key to these processes and thus key to soil restoration.
Jake M Robinson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Amazonian deforestation and soil biodiversity

Conservation Biology, 2019
Clearance and perturbation of Amazonian forests are one of the greatest threats to tropical biodiversity conservation of our times. A better understanding of how soil communities respond to Amazonian deforestation is crucially needed to inform policy ...
André L. C. Franco   +3 more
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Soil biodiversity for the sustainability of agroecosystems

Acta Oecologica, 2021
International ...
Bedano, Jose Camilo   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Faster recovery of soil biodiversity in native species mixture than in Eucalyptus monoculture after 60 years afforestation in tropical degraded coastal terraces

Global Change Biology, 2021
Afforestation is an effective method to restore degraded land. Afforestation methods vary in their effects on ecosystem multifunctionality, but their effects on soil biodiversity have been largely overlooked.
Wenjia Wu   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mutualism and biodiversity in soils

Plant and Soil, 1995
Most soil invertebrates and roots have developed strong interactions with micro-organisms to exploit the organic and mineral resources of soil. Micro-fauna are mainly predators of microorganisms whereas larger organisms interact with micro-organisms through the “external rumen” or facultative endosymbiotic digestive systems.
Dolores Trigo   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Soil as a support of biodiversity and functions.

2014
The soil is a major reservoir of biological diversity on our planet. It also shelters numerous biological and ecological processes and therefore contributes to the production of a considerable number of ecosystem services. Among the ecological, social and economic services identified, the role of soil as a reservoir of diversity has now been well ...
Maron, Pierre-Alain, Lemanceau, Philippe
openaire   +6 more sources

Soil and biodiversity

Russian Journal of Ecology, 2011
It is shown that the soil diversity-biodiversity system in terrestrial ecosystems operates in spatiotemporal unity, which manifests itself at different hierarchical levels of their structural-functional organization: successional-evolutionary, zonal geographic, landscape, biogeocenotic, soil-type, horizon-layer, geochemical, and the levels of ...
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