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2016
One of the most striking things about soil is that it harbours a remarkable diversity of life. A handful of soil from any well-kept garden, forest, or agricultural field, can contain literally billions of individual organisms and thousands of species.
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One of the most striking things about soil is that it harbours a remarkable diversity of life. A handful of soil from any well-kept garden, forest, or agricultural field, can contain literally billions of individual organisms and thousands of species.
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Ecosystem Carbon and Soil Biodiversity
2013Soils harbor a great diversity and abundance of soil biota, but because it is mostly invisible to our naked eye we are only just starting to discover it. This is not surprising given the estimated diversity of up to 106 species of bacteria per g of soil.
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Mutualism and biodiversity in soils
Plant and Soil, 1995Most 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.
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The most abundant multicellular organisms in the soil are fungi (although the group also contains unicellular members – yeasts). Fungi are an extremely diverse group of heterotrophic organisms. Most are saprophytic, playing key roles in decomposition and pedogenesis processes.
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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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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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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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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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Advances in soil microbial ecology and the biodiversity
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 1997Recent studies on the colony formation of soil bacteria opened the way to categorize soil bacteria into colony forming curve (CFC) groups of different growth rates. A bacterial culture collection comprising organisms from every CFC group is called an ecocollection (EC). Outlines of ECs of paddy soil 1992 and grassland soil 1987 and 1992 were described.
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, 2017 Functional soil and aerial biodiversity
2017Functional Soil and Aerial ...
Sarthou, Jean-Pierre +2 more
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