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Development of a framework for the evaluation of the environmental benefits of controlled traffic farming [PDF]
, 2015 Although controlled traffic farming (CTF) is an environmentally friendly soil management system, no quantitative evaluation of environmental benefits is available.
Mouazen, Abdul Mounem, Palmqvist, Martin
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Soil biodiversity and nature-mimicry in agriculture; the power of metaphor?
Outlook on Agriculture, 2022 Attention to soil biodiversity and its importance for sustainable food production has markedly increased in recent years. In particular, the loss of soil biodiversity as a consequence of intensive agriculture, land degradation and climate change has ...
M. Pulleman +3 more
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Proceedings, 2020 Located in the North-West of Algeria, the foothills of Dahra are affected by the problems of water erosion where agricultural soils are under severe degradation due to the mismatch influence between a semi-arid climate and the prevailing cropping systems
Amina Hamadi +3 more
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Soil Organisms, 2023 Soil biodiversity does not only represent a major share of the total Earth’s biodiversity, but has also major importance for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.
Nico Eisenhauer +2 more
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Challenges of and opportunities for protecting European soil biodiversity
Conservation Biology, 2022 Soil biodiversity and related ecosystem functions are neglected in most biodiversity assessments and nature conservation actions. We examined how society, and particularly policy makers, have addressed these factors worldwide with a focus on Europe and ...
Romy Zeiss +9 more
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Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity [PDF]
, 2019 Soil is one of the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats. Yet, we lack an integrative conceptual framework for understanding the patterns and mechanisms driving soil biodiversity.
Brose, Ulrich +9 more
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Linking soil biodiversity and ecosystem function in a Neotropical savanna
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Applied Soil Ecology, 2022 Conserving the remaining savanna ecosystems in the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado) — a global biodiversity hotspot that stores carbon and provides water to a large portion of South America — requires understanding the ecological processes maintaining their ...
J. Inkotte +8 more
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Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas [PDF]
, 2015 Soils provide numerous ecosystem services. Most people do not know that the key drivers of soil ecosystems are the living organisms within the soil. Soils may be home to over one fourth of all living species on Earth, with a significant part not yet ...
BARDGETT Richard +25 more
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Can Grasslands in Photovoltaic Parks Play a Role in Conserving Soil Arthropod Biodiversity?
Life, 2023 Under the increasing global energy demand, the new European Union Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 encourages combinations of energy production systems compatible with biodiversity conservation; however, in photovoltaic parks, panels shadowing the effects ...
Cristina Menta +4 more
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Contributions of understory and/or overstory vegetations to soil microbial PLFA and nematode diversities in Eucalyptus monocultures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Ecological interactions between aboveground and belowground biodiversity have received many attentions in the recent decades. Although soil biodiversity declined with the decrease of plant diversity, many previous studies found plant species identities ...
Jie Zhao +5 more
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