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Vegetation and vertebrate abundance as drivers of bioturbation patterns along a climate gradient.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Bioturbators shape their environment with considerable consequences for ecosystem processes. However, both the composition and the impact of bioturbator communities may change along climatic gradients.
Diana Kraus +8 more
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The Roles of Invertebrates in the Urban Soil Microbiome
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Urban soils differ from those in other managed ecosystems in many ways, including their heterogeneity, unique organic matter inputs and exposure to past and present anthropogenic activities.
Natalie Bray, Kyle Wickings
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The Insect Community on the Soil Surface
EDIS, 2011 It’s easy to find and collect insects, related arthropods, and other invertebrates from the soil surface using simple materials that are readily available.
Harsimran K. Gill +2 more
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Morphospecies diversity of soil invertebrates in Cultivated and Uncultivated fields [PDF]
Journal of Bioscience and Applied Research, 2018 The soil environment is teeming with living organisms full of biological life and is one of the most abundant and diverse ecosystems on earth. However, due to unsustainable agriculture practices, the fertile topsoil is often lost; the soil becomes ...
Abrar Maqtan +4 more
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THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE INVERTEBRATES FAUNA IN THE CORN CULTURE SOIL IN COPSA MICA (SIBIU COUNTY) ROMANIA [PDF]
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2014 The goal of our researches is in bringing the scientific arguments of the necessity of including the biologic parameters, mainly of the invertebrates in the soil, in the evaluation studies of the impact upon the environment and the national strategies of
Iuliana ANTONIE
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 The accumulation of plastics in the environment is a major problem in the Anthropocene. As most plastic is produced, used and discarded on land, ∼4–23 times more plastics are deposited in soils than in the oceans.
Anne Christel Franka Möhrke +3 more
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Ecotoxicity test as an aid in the determination of copper guideline values in soils [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2020 : The process of identifying a contaminated area involves a preliminary assessment consisting of chemical analysis and comparison with guideline values. In Brazil, these values are included in the CONAMA Resolution no.
Bruna Faria Simões +4 more
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Ibn Al-Haitham Journal for Pure and Applied SciencesSoil invertebrates play an important role in the soil biota community; they are responsible for decomposing, aerating, recycling nutrients, and increasing agricultural products.
Ghofran Wael Al-Waeely +2 more
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Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout much of the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely been focused on reducing pesticide contamination of the water and air, as runoff and pesticide drift ...
Tari Gunstone +4 more
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Soil mesofauna in fire-induced oak forest
Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2017 The soil invertebrates inhabiting the territory of the pyrogenic succession in the oak forests, were investigated in comparison with the control plots where there was no fire within two years.
S. S. Rubtsov, O. P. Negrobov
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