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Field mixtures of currently used pesticides in agricultural soil pose a risk to soil invertebrates.

Environmental Pollution, 2022
Massive use of pesticides in conventional agriculture leads to accumulation in soil of complex mixtures, triggering questions about their potential ecotoxicological risk.
S. C. Panico, C. V. van Gestel, R. Verweij, M. Rault, C. Bertrand, Carlos A. Menacho Barriga, M. Coeurdassier, C. Fritsch, F. Gimbert, C. Pelosi   +9 more
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Grazing Effects of Soil Fauna on White-Rot Fungi: Biomass, Enzyme Production and Litter Decomposition Ability

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Soil invertebrates and microorganisms are two major drivers of litter decomposition. Even though the importance of invertebrates and microorganisms in biogeochemical soil cycles and soil food webs has been studied, the effects of invertebrates on fungi ...
Yunru Chen, Tingting Cao, Meiqi Lv, You Fang, Run Liu, Yunchao Luo, Chi Xu, Xingjun Tian   +7 more
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On the importance of longer-term exposure to stressors - A critical review and proposal for multigenerational testing in standard soil invertebrates.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Standard laboratory tests to describe the impact of stressors (most notably: chemicals) on organisms offer a good compromise between feasibility and outcome, i.e., they should be reproducible and provide robust results.
B. Guimarães, J. Römbke, M. Amorim
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Litter chemistry of common European tree species drives the feeding preference and consumption rate of soil invertebrates, and shapes the diversity and structure of gut and faecal microbiomes

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022
Litter chemistry of common European tree species drives the feeding preference and consumption rate of soil invertebrates, and shapes the diversity and structure of gut and faecal ...
Petr Hědenec, Hai-Yan Zheng, D. Siqueira, Yan Peng, I. Schmidt, T. Frøslev, R. Kjøller, Huan Li, J. Frouz, L. Vesterdal   +9 more
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Effects of Residue Management on Decomposition in Irrigated Rice Fields Are Not Related to Changes in the Decomposer Community. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Decomposers provide an essential ecosystem service that contributes to sustainable production in rice ecosystems by driving the release of nutrients from organic crop residues.
Anja Schmidt, Katharina John, Gertrudo Arida, Harald Auge, Roland Brandl, Finbarr G Horgan, Stefan Hotes, Leonardo Marquez, Nico Radermacher, Josef Settele, Volkmar Wolters, Martin Schädler   +11 more
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Exploring the impacts of microplastics and associated chemicals in the terrestrial environment - Exposure of soil invertebrates to tire particles.

Environmental Research, 2021
Abrasion of tire wear is one of the largest sources of microplastics to the environment. Although most tire particles settle into soils, studies on their ecotoxicological impacts on the terrestrial environment are scarce.
S. Selonen, Andraž Dolar, A. J. Kokalj, L. N. Sackey, T. Skalar, V. Fernandes, D. Rede, C. Delerue-Matos, R. Hurley, L. Nizzetto, C. V. van Gestel   +10 more
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Rocks, lichens, and woody litter influenced the soil invertebrate density in upland tundra heath.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Soil invertebrates are an integral part of Arctic ecosystems through their roles in the breakdown of litter, soil formation, and nutrient cycling. However, studies examining soil invertebrates in the Arctic are limited and our understanding of the ...
Olukayode O Jegede, Katherine M Standen, Steven Siciliano, Eric G Lamb, Katherine J Stewart   +4 more
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Biotechnology, environmental forcing, and unintended trophic cascades [PDF]

, 2009
A long ongoing discussion between scientists and policy decision-makers seems to have entered recently into a new phase. The consequences of release of transgenic crops into the environment are being discussed not only by scientists but also by farmers ...
Lotz, L.A.P., Mulder, C.
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Aboveground herbivory shapes the biomass distribution and flux of soil invertebrates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
BACKGROUND: Living soil invertebrates provide a universal currency for quality that integrates physical and chemical variables with biogeography as the invertebrates reflect their habitat and most ecological changes occurring therein.
Christian Mulder, Henri A Den Hollander, A Jan Hendriks   +2 more
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Evolutionary terrestrialization scenarios for soil invertebrates

Pedobiologia, 2021
It is generally assumed that the soil environment played an important role in the evolution of life on land, as a transition medium between water and air. This idea was already formulated by M.S.
N. V. van Straalen
semanticscholar   +1 more source