Modeling of Soil Functions for Assessing Soil Quality: Soil Biodiversity and Habitat Provisioning
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019 Soil biodiversity and habitat provisioning is one of the soil functions that agricultural land provides to society. This paper describes assessment of the soil biodiversity function (SB function) as a proof of concept to be used in a decision support ...
J. V. van Leeuwen +14 more
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Soil biodiversity and soil erosion: It is time to get married
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018 AIM: The relationship between erosion and biodiversity is reciprocal. Soil organisms can both reduce soil loss, by improving porosity, and increase it, by diminishing soil stability as a result of their mixing activities.
A. Orgiazzi, Panos Panagos
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Impacts of DNA extraction and PCR on DNA metabarcoding estimates of soil biodiversity
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Soils are ubiquitous and important components of terrestrial ecosystems, richly populated with diverse organisms with important ecological roles. DNA metabarcoding is a promising tool for efficient and taxonomically comprehensive analyses of soil ...
A. Dopheide +4 more
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The role of soil community biodiversity in insect biodiversity [PDF]
Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2010 Abstract. 1. This study demonstrates that feedback loops between plants and insects contribute to both plant and insect diversity. Synthesis of several studies reveals that both bottom‐up and top‐down forces are important for plant and insect communities.2. Feedback loops between plants and soil organisms contribute to plant and soil diversity.
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Soil biodiversity in natural forests potentially exhibits higher resistance than planted forests under global warming. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2023 Wang J, Shi X.
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Decades matter: Agricultural diversification increases financial profitability, biodiversity, and ecosystem services over time [PDF]
arXivSustainable agriculture in the 21st century requires the production of sufficient food while reducing the environmental impact and safeguarding human livelihoods. Many studies have confirmed agricultural diversification practices such as intercropping, organic farming and soil inoculations as a suitable pathway to achieve these goals, but long-term ...
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Linking above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity: abundance and trophic complexity in soil as a response to experimental plant communities on abandoned arable land [PDF]
, 2001 G.W. Korthals +3 more
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Soil and soil CO2 magnify greenhouse effect [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Soil has been recognized as an indirect driver of global warming by regulating atmospheric greenhouse gases. However, in view of the higher heat capacity and CO2 concentration in soil than those in atmosphere, the direct contributions of soil to greenhouse effect may be non-ignorable.
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Soil on imported shipping containers provides a source of new Pseudomonad biodiversity into New Zealand [PDF]
, 2002 Scott A. C. Godfrey, John W. Marshall
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