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Ecological Indicators, 2021 The relationship between soil fauna and vegetation diversity has been of continuous concern. The effects of the “Grain-for-Green” program on the Loess Plateau in maintaining the abundance and diversity of soil fauna are poorly understood.
Xi Yang +4 more
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Plant diversity increases the abundance and diversity of soil fauna: A meta-analysis
Geoderma, 2022 Soil fauna communities are an important component of soil biodiversity, which is key to myriad terrestrial ecosystem processes. However, despite the current alarming loss of plant diversity, it remains unclear how plant diversity affects soil fauna ...
Yakun Zhang +3 more
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Effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition in Chinese forests: a meta-analysis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Litter quality and climate have been presumed to be the dominant factors regulating litter decomposition rates on broad spatial scales. However, the role of soil fauna on litter decomposition is poorly understood, despite the fact that it could strongly ...
Peng Zan, Zijun Mao, Tao Sun
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Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2023 Soil fauna act as regulators of decomposition processes via their feeding activity, thereby playing an important role in regulating carbon cycling and sequestration.
Nicole Scheunemann, David J. Russell
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Urbanization has induced substantial changes in soil physicochemical characteristic, which plays an important role in regulating soil fauna biodiversity in forests and grasslands.
Shiqin Yu +13 more
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Population and Distribution of Some Soil MesoFauna in the Inactive Tailing Deposition Areas of Freeport Indonesia, Timika-Papua [PDF]
Journal of Tropical Soils, 2013 Soil fauna has played an important role in ecosystem functioning, especially as ecosystem engineers which contribute to soil fertility in tropical environment.
Irnanda Aiko Fifi Djuuna
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 The re-vegetation of acid mine waste rock from the Dexing copper (Cu) mine in Shuilong mountain has been conducted for more than 10 years. However, few studies have assessed the composition of soil fauna communities in this restored ecosystem.
Ping Lu +6 more
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Effects of simulated diesel contamination on soil fauna community
浙江大学学报. 农业与生命科学版, 2021 Soil fauna is an important component of soil ecosystem, which plays a significant role in the decomposition of biological remains, soil properties and the enhancement of material recycling and energy conversion in soils.
XIAO Jiujin +5 more
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A call for collaboration to create the European Atlas of Soil Fauna
Soil Organisms, 2022 Soil biodiversity, and particularly soil fauna, drives essential soil functions leading to crucial ecosystem services. Many research activities over the last decades have produced data, which are however widely dispersed and not easily available, hence ...
Maria Tsiafouli +2 more
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Diversity, 2022 Soil fauna contribute to important ecological functions such as improving soil structure and promoting nutrient circulation. They are the common environmental indicators in agricultural landscape.
Panpan Zhang +6 more
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