Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +17 more institutions
Abstract
Soil biodiversity plays a key role in regulating the processes that underpin the delivery of ecosystem goods and services in terrestrial ecosystems. Agricultural intensification is known to change the diversity of individual groups of soil biota, but less is known about how intensification affects biodiversity of the soil food web as a whole, and whether or not these effects may be generalized across regions. We examined biodiversity in soil food webs from grasslands, extensive, and intensive rotations in four agricultural regions across Europe: in Sweden, the UK, the Czech Republic and Greece. Effects of land-use intensity were quantified based on structure and diversity among functional groups in the soil…
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- FWCI
- 71.56
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- 100%
- References
- 79
Authors
26- MΑMaria Α. TsiafouliCorresponding
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- ÉTÉlisa Thébault
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- SPStefanos P. Sgardelis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- PCPeter C. de Ruiter
- WHWim H. van der Putten
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen University & Research
Topics & keywords
- Biodiversity
- Species richness
- Soil biology
- Soil food web
- Ecology
- Soil biodiversity
- Land use
- Ecosystem
- Zero hunger