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Effect of land use on soil macrofauna in Southern Ghana
BiodiversityThe study explored the impact of land use changes on soil biodiversity, focussing on soil invertebrates in a converted natural forest. Using parallel transects 1 km in length positioned 200 m apart across cocoa, coffee, and cashew farms and natural ...
D. Tetteh, Isaac Amos
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Mesofauna and Macrofauna in Soil and Litter of Mixed Plantations
2020The cultivation of leguminous nitrogen-fixing tree species improves soil chemical properties, especially with regard to N, and has been identified to be ecologically and economically interesting in intercropped systems with Eucalyptus spp., although the effect of these mixed plantations on soil and litter invertebrates still is poorly understood.
Maurício Rumenos Guidetti Zagatto +5 more
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Ecological Economics, 1997
Abstract Australian farmers are searching for reliable, easily measured indicators of soil health to monitor sustainability of their enterprises. Over the past 5 years earthworms have been promoted as indicators of soil health by some researchers. Others have been reluctant to accept soil macrofauna in general as soil health indicators.
Lisa Lobry de Bruyn
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Abstract Australian farmers are searching for reliable, easily measured indicators of soil health to monitor sustainability of their enterprises. Over the past 5 years earthworms have been promoted as indicators of soil health by some researchers. Others have been reluctant to accept soil macrofauna in general as soil health indicators.
Lisa Lobry de Bruyn
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Acta Oecologica, 2019
Abstract Soils participate in the provision of numerous ecosystem services of great importance for the maintenance of ecosystems and human societies. Physical and chemical soils properties sustain supporting ecosystem services like plant production and the infiltration and provision of clean water.
E. Velasquez, P. Lavelle
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Abstract Soils participate in the provision of numerous ecosystem services of great importance for the maintenance of ecosystems and human societies. Physical and chemical soils properties sustain supporting ecosystem services like plant production and the infiltration and provision of clean water.
E. Velasquez, P. Lavelle
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Impact of Pollution Caused by Uranium Production on Soil Macrofauna
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2003Thirty years of mining and milling activities of the Priargunsky Mining-Chemical Production Company (South-Eastern Siberia, Russia) have resulted in an enrichment of uranium in adjacent steppe soils by a factor of up to 600. A number of attendant pollutants (thorium, arsenic and heavy metals) also have high concentrations in the soil.
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East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal, 2003
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Ayuke, FO +3 more
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Soil macrofauna of the south of Kunashir Island (Kuril Islands, Russia)
Doklady Biological Sciences, 2014Study of the soil biota organization under the con ditions of minimal human influence in different soil types is one of the most important tasks for both fun damental and applied soil biology. When developing the concept of the zoological method of soil diagnos tics, Gilyarov [6] considered the taxonomic diversity and the number of species of the ...
K B, Gongalsky +4 more
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Effects of macrofauna on soil properties in tropical ecosystems
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 1988Abstract Earthworms, termites and ants influence soil physical, chemical and biological properties. Earthworms are most active in humid and subhumid tropics, termites and ants are more active in semi-arid and arid regions. Soil fauna influence rates of soil turnover, mineralization and humification of soil organic matter, soil texture and consistency,
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Abundance and diversity of soil macrofauna in northern Botswana
Journal of Tropical Ecology, 1997ABSTRACTThe abundance and diversity of soil macrofauna were assessed in a range of vegetation types in northern Botswana. Hand-sorting of soil was used to extract all fauna greater than 2 mm body length from sandy soils in both the dry season (June) and towards the end of the single rainy season (February).
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