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Conservation Agriculture Enhances Soil Fauna Richness and Abundance in Low Input Systems: Examples From Kenya

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019
Conservation agriculture (CA) (zero tillage + organic inputs as surface residue) is believed to improve soil nutrient status, soil structure, control soil erosion, and also enhance soil fauna diversity.
Fredrick Ouma Ayuke, Fredrick Ouma Ayuke, Job Kihara, George Ayaga, Alfred N. Micheni   +4 more
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Effects of Naphthalene Application on Soil Fungal Community Structure in a Poplar Plantation in Northern Jiangsu, China

Applied Sciences, 2023
The soil food web is essential for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. The application of naphthalene is a commonly employed experimental treatment for expelling soil fauna to examine faunal effects on litter decomposition processes, for which is ...
Xuan Xu, Penghe Cao, Yuchao Wang, Wei Wu, Jiahuan Guo, Jiejie Sun, Xiaoming Zou, Weifeng Wang, Honghua Ruan   +8 more
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Pseudoscorpiones (Arachnida) of the Brazilian oceanic islands

Global Ecology and Conservation
Pseudoscorpiones are compose an ancient order of arachnids, occur in a wide variety of terrestrial habitats worldwide, with representatives of various genera occurring exclusively in insular habitats.
Misael A. Oliveira-Neto, Estevam C.A. de Lima, Bruna C.H. Lopes, Jonas E. Gallão, Luis C. Stievano, Celia C.C. Machado, Maria E. Bichuette, Douglas Zeppelini   +7 more
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Soil Rotifers new to Hungary from the floodplain Gemenc (Duna-Dráva National Park, Hungary) [PDF]

, 2013
In summer and autumn 2010, we collected soil samples from the Gemenc floodplain of the Danube (Duna-Dráva National Park) from places with different flood regimes and vegetation cover and examined them for rotifers.
Schöll, Károly Norbert, Devetter, Miloslav   +1 more
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Artificial groundwater recharge in forests : soil fauna and microbiology [PDF]

, 2008
At present, approximately half of the drinking water for the city of Basel (Switzerland) is obtained by an artificial groundwater recharge system in a former floodplain area called “Lange Erlen”.
Schütz, Kirsten
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Positive Effects of Reforestation on the Diversity and Abundance of Soil Fauna in a Landscape Degraded Red Soil Area in Subtropical China

, 2022
Serious soil degradation due to human intervention in subtropical China has resulted in a series of ecological problems. Soil fauna is an important part of forest soil ecosystems and plays a vital role in the maintenance of soil quality and can ...
Kuncai Mao, Yuanqiu Liu, Lvshui Zhang, Huajian Xue, Xueru Jiang, Wei Liu, Qiong Wang, Philip J. Murray   +7 more
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The Contributions of Soil Fauna to the Accumulation of Humic Substances during Litter Humification in Cold Forests

, 2022
Litter humification is an essential process of soil carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems, but the relationship between soil fauna and humic substances has not been well understood.
Yu Tan, Bo Tan, Chengming You, Kaijun Yang, Zhenfeng Xu, Li Zhang, Han Li   +6 more
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Chiral separation of chloroalkanes with the chromatographic column onboard Martian rovers

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Computer image of the Rosalind Franklin Rover of ESA's ExoMars mission. ExoMars is scheduled to land on planet Mars in Oxia Planum in 2029. This area represents an interesting spot to look for biosignatures. Investigations of ExoMars include measurement on molecular chirality. We show that chiral chloroalkanes, that have been identified on Mars, can be
Asma Merzougui, Agnes Banreti, Armelle L. Ernst, Guillaume Leseigneur, Uwe J. Meierhenrich   +4 more
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Climate change enhances soil fauna population and biomass in grasslands of the Loess Plateau

Communications Earth & Environment
Soil fauna is a crucial component of soil biodiversity, which affects various processes and functions in terrestrial ecosystems. However, few quantitative, large-scale spatially distributional studies have explored the abundance and biomass of soil fauna.
Xi Yang, Ming’an Shao, Tongchuan Li
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Effects of Phyllostachys pubescens expansion on underground soil fauna community and soil food web in a Cryptomeria japonica plantation, Lushan Mountain, subtropical China

, 2021
Purpose In order to determine the interactive effect of Phyllostachys pubescens(moso bamboo) expansion to adjacent coniferous forest (Cryptomeria japonica, Japanese cedar) on soil fauna communities and soil food web, we conducted a tangible ...
Cai, J., Jiang, X., Wang, Q., Lui, W., Murray, P. J., Liu, Y., Zou, G., Zhao, X., Liao, L.   +8 more
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