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Sounds of Soil: A New World of Interactions under Our Feet? [PDF]

, 2019
Soils are biodiversity-dense and constantly carry chemical flows of information, with our mental image of soil being dark and quiet. But what if soil biota tap sound, or more generally, vibrations as a source of information?
Bonneval, Karine, Lehmann, Johannes, Rillig, Matthias C.   +2 more
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Earth’s buried wealth: uncovering global soil biodiversity

Soil Organisms
Soils harbor more than half the biodiversity of our planet, yet they are underappreciated and often unprotected. Among the initiatives promoting the sustainable use and conservation of soil biodiversity is the International Network on Soil Biodiversity (
Carlos Barreto, J. Jacob Parnell, George G. Brown, Zoë Lindo, Peter C. de Ruiter   +4 more
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Changes in plant biodiversity facets of rocky outcrops and their surrounding rangelands across precipitation and soil gradients

Scientific Reports, 2022
Climate and soil factors induce substantial controls over plant biodiversity in stressful ecosystems. Despite of some studies on plant biodiversity in extreme ecosystems including rocky outcrops, simultaneous effects of climate and soil factors have ...
Fahime Rafiee, Hamid Ejtehadi, Mohammad Farzam, Habib Zare, Maral Bashirzadeh   +4 more
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Decision support for the identification of testate amoebae in microscopy images to detect peat presence in horticultural substrates

Environmental Data Science
Peat is formed by the accumulation of organic material in water-saturated soils. Drainage of peatlands and peat extraction contribute to carbon emissions and biodiversity loss.
Serge Zaugg, Camille Vögeli, Lena Märki, Clément Duckert, Edward A.D. Mitchell   +4 more
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Darkness visible: reflections on underground ecology [PDF]

, 2005
1 Soil science and ecology have developed independently, making it difficult for ecologists to contribute to urgent current debates on the destruction of the global soil resource and its key role in the global carbon cycle.
Barrett D.J., Beijerinck M.W., Brookes P.C., Dunger W., Finlay B.J., Finlay B.J., Fitter A.H., Fitter A.H., Fitter A.H., Hodda M., Hyams E., Jackson R.B., Kouki J., Lambshead P.J.D., Law R., Lloyd J., Lloyd-MacGilp S.A., Manefield M., Morton J.B., Nicolson T.H., Oechel W.C., Peat H.J., Perrings C., Read D.J., Redecker D., Smith S.E., Steinbeck J., Taylor T.N., Torsvik V., Van der Heijden M.G.A., Varley J.D., Vitousek P.M., Williamson M., Williamson M., Wilson D.S., Wohl D.L., Zinke P.J.   +36 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon stock dynamics along a cork oak stand chronosequence: implications for climate-smart forest management

Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
Forests, as carbon sinks, represent a key strategy for mitigating climate change. This study assessed carbon stocks and annual carbon accumulation rates (ACAR) across four reservoirs: aboveground biomass (AB: trees and undergrowth), belowground biomass ...
Hafida Zaher, Madiha Rhoufacha, Hamza Dahmani   +2 more
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Soil biodiversity: functions, threats and tools for policy makers [PDF]

, 2010
Human societies rely on the vast diversity of benefits provided by nature, such as food, fibres, construction materials, clean water, clean air and climate regulation.
Benito, Patricia, de Toni, Arianna, Labouze, Eric, Lavelle, Patrick, Lavelle, Perrine, Mudgal, Shaleindra, Ruiz Camacho, Nuria, Turbé, Anne, van Der Putten, Wim H.   +8 more
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Coupled Above‐ and Belowground Ecosystem Stability Worldwide

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Are the worlds above and below our feet in sync? This global exploration reveals an entangled fate between above‐ and belowground ecosystem stability. It identifies arid regions as hotspots for this coupling and highlights temperature stability as a vital safeguard for maintaining ecosystem balance across our warming planet.
Zexin Meng, Huiwen Li, Yiping Wu, Peter B. Reich, Nico Eisenhauer, Diego Abalos, Daniel Revillini, Shuguang Liu, Wende Yan, Ji Chen, Alexey Voinov, Zhifeng Yang, Ying‐Ping Wang, Fubo Zhao, Linjing Qiu, Jingfeng Xiao, Shantao An, Guopeng Liang, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo   +18 more
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Mechanisms of Aristolochic Acid Resistance in Specialist Butterflies and Evolutionary Insights for Potential Protective Pathways

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study provides an extreme example of insect adaptation to highly toxic defenses of host plants, and investigates the complex strategies to resist carcinogenic aristolochic acids, including physical isolation, metabolic detoxification, and DNA repair.
Yang Luan, Yubo Zhang, Jingjing Li, Jianqing Zhu, Yuyang Lei, Yushi Hu, Zhenqiang Xin, Tianpei Xie, Jiang Zheng, Yuanyuan Lin, Jingjing Shen, Yiyi Cao, Xinyue You, Jing Xi, Jiaying Wu, Weiying Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Yuanting Zheng, David J. Lohman, Leming Shi, Wei Zhang   +20 more
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