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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, Craig, Liddicoat, Miriam, Muñoz-Rojas, Martin F, Breed   +3 more
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Amazonian deforestation and soil biodiversity

Conservation Biology, 2019
Abstract 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 interventions that effectively protect biodiversity and the essential ...
André L.C. Franco, Bruno W. Sobral, Artur L.C. Silva, Diana H. Wall   +3 more
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Soil biodiversity for agricultural sustainability

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2007
We critically highlight some evidence for the importance of soil biodiversity to sustaining (agro-)ecosystem functioning and explore directions for future research. We first deal with resistance and resilience against abiotic disturbance and stress.
Brussaard, L., de Ruiter, P.C., Brown, G.G.   +2 more
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Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity

Science, 2021
A monitoring and indicator system can inform ...
Guerra, C.A., Bardgett, R.D., Caon, L., Crowther, T.W., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Montanarella, L., Navarro, L.M., Orgiazzi, A., Singh, B.K., Tedersoo, L., Vargas-Rojas, R., Briones, M.J.I., Buscot, F., Cameron, E.K., Cesarz, S., Chatzinotas, A., Cowan, D.A., Djukic, I., van den Hoogen, J., Lehmann, A., Maestre, F.T., Marín, C., Reitz, T., Rillig, M.C., Smith, L.C., de Vries, F.T., Weigelt, A., Wall, D.H., Eisenhauer, N.   +28 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 ...
Wall, Diana H., Nielsen, Uffe N. (R17023), Six, Johan   +2 more
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Soils Supporting Biodiversity

2014
Soils are complex systems. Soil organisms and mineral components interact to generate high diversity and complexity, feeding back to biodiversity through habitat provision. Vascular plants link the aboveground and belowground components of ecosystems by litter inputs, root exudates, and influence soil chemistry and structure.
Elena Havlicek, Edward A. D. Mitchell
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Soil nematode biodiversity

Biology and Fertility of Soils, 1992
Nematodes are the most abundant metazoans in soil, and are exceeded in species diversity only by the arthropods. Estimates of nematode diversity in natural and agroecosystems have been based on both species-level taxonomy and trophic-level guilds. Because trophic groups do not act in a unitary manner with respect to environmental alterations, species ...
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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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Soils Suppressing Biodiversity

2014
Soil biodiversity has been shown essential to provide ecosystem services for plant growth that have large economic value. However a number of ecosystem management practices and the effects of pollutants can decrease soil biodiversity and, hence, reduce its role in sustaining plant growth.
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