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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, Jérôme Cortet , David Russell   +2 more
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Response of Soil Fauna Diversity to Agricultural Landscape Het-Erogeneity in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yellow River—A Case Study in Gongyi City, China

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, Chenchen Zhang, Shunping Ding, Ziqi Bian, Peikun Li, Jian Zhang, Shengyan Ding   +6 more
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Soil fauna diversity at different stages of reed restoration in a lakeshore wetland at Lake Taihu, China

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020
Introduction: Wetland soil fauna support material cycling and restoration processes in wetland ecosystems. In our study, we observed variations in wetland soil fauna on the shores of Lake Taihu, China.
Wei Li, Zhiguo Dou, Lijuan Cui, Xinsheng Zhao, Manyin Zhang, Yan Zhang, Changjun Gao, Zheng Yang, Yinru Lei, Xu Pan   +9 more
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Influence of Pre-Sowing Operations on Soil-Dwelling Fauna in Soybean Cultivation

Agriculture, 2021
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of different pre-sowing operations on the abundance and composition of total soil fauna in soybean cultivation, with special attention to carabids as biological indicators of agroecosystem quality.
Darija Lemic, Ivana Pajač Živković, Marija Posarić, Renata Bažok   +3 more
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Characteristics of Soil Fauna Communities and Habitat in Small-Holder Cocoa Plantation in South Konawe

Journal of Tropical Soils, 2013
The composition of soil fauna community have played an important role in regulating decomposition and nutrient cycling in agro-ecosystems (include cocoa plantation). Changes in food availability and conditions in the soil habitat can affect the abundance
Laode Muhammad Harjoni Kilowasid, Tati Suryati Syamsudin, Franciscus Xaverius Susilo, Endah Sulistyawati, Hasbullah Syaf   +4 more
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Perennial grass bioenergy cropping systems: Impacts on soil fauna and implications for soil carbon accrual

GCB Bioenergy, 2022
Perennial grass energy crop production is necessary for the successful and sustainable expansion of bioenergy in North America. Numerous environmental advantages are associated with perennial grass cropping systems, including their potential to promote ...
Allison Zahorec, Matthew L. Reid, Lisa K. Tiemann, Douglas A. Landis   +3 more
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Soil meso- and micro-fauna community in response to bamboo-fungus agroforestry management

Scientific Reports, 2022
Bamboo-fungus agroforestry management is an ecological model of sustainable production of moso bamboo forest, and Stropharia rugosoannulata has been widely planted in moso bamboo forest.
Jiancheng Zhao, Miao Liu, Jun Xu, Zhenya Yang, Qin Li, Chunju Cai   +5 more
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Four-year arable crop rotation impact on beneficial soil surface arthropod fauna restoration [PDF]

Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2016
Sugar beet production in Croatia is demanding and involves a range of activities that affect the successful production. Pests can significantly reduce yield, sugar content and root quality.
Darija LEMIĆ, Helena VIRIĆ GAŠPARIĆ, Ivana PETRAK, Željka GRAŠA, Renata Bažok   +4 more
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Biomonitoring of Soil Quality By Soil FAUNA [PDF]

, 2015
The awareness of the problems related to soil pollution, in heavily populated areas, has led to a growing interest in the soil fauna study; the biological quality of the soil through the soil fauna is, to date, one of the most approved methodologies ...
BUFO, Sabino Aurelio, SCRANO, Laura, FALABELLA, Patrizia, Laurino, Simona   +3 more
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Community diversity of soil meso-fauna indicates the impacts of oil exploitation on wetlands

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Soil meso-fauna can indicate ecological health and provide biotic metrics for evaluating ecosystem damage and environmental changes. However, the roles of the soil meso-fauna in wetlands affected by oil exploitation have rarely been studied.
Xiaoxue Zheng, Haixia Wang, Yan Tao, Xinchang Kou, Chunguang He, Zhongqiang Wang   +5 more
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