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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Spatial variation in biodiversity, soil degradation and productivity in agricultural landscapes in the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2009 There is a growing concern about food security and sustainability of agricultural production in developing countries. However, there are limited attempts to quantify agro-biodiversity losses and relate these losses to soil degradation and crop ...
Bruggen, A.H.C., van +3 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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Plant and soil biodiversity have non-substitutable stabilising effects on biomass production.
Ecology Letters, 2021 The stability of plant biomass production in the face of environmental change is fundamental for maintaining terrestrial ecosystem functioning, as plant biomass is the ultimate source of energy for nearly all life forms.
Gaowen Yang +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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Soil health and ecosystem services: Lessons from sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) [PDF]
, 2020 Management practices to improve soil health influence several ecosystem services including regulation of water flows, changes in soil biodiversity and greenhouse gases that are important at local, regional and global levels.
Bolo, Peter Omondi +4 more
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Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 2022 Global change is affecting soil biodiversity and functioning across all terrestrial ecosystems. Still, much is unknown about how soil biodiversity and function will change in the future in response to simultaneous alterations in climate and land use, as ...
Nico Eisenhauer +25 more
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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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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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Lessons from the WBF2020: extrinsic and intrinsic value of soil organisms
Soil Organisms, 2020 Following our participation in the first World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, Switzerland, we provide a summary of the main themes of the conference, as well as an overview of the session that was focused on soil biodiversity. One of the main themes of the
Helen R. P. Phillips +4 more
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