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However, the F. albida + Eucalyptus camaldulensis (AE) land use system showed a decreasing trend in barley yield and soil fertility as distance from a F. albida trunk decreased. At regional scales, higher F. albida tree density per farm and sparsely cultivated land use types were associated with increased potential ecosystem services (barley yield). This study suggests that local biodiversity components (e.g. F. albida trees) can increase crop yield and soil fertility significantly when grown within and around farm lands. This study contributes to the knowledge on agricultural productivity enhancement by developing an approach to scaling up from farm to regional level.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "growth", "conservation", "tree-crop interactions", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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The transition towards such systems is challenged by a belief of lower productivity and higher weed pressure. Here, we hypothesize that diversifying the crop sequence and its associated weed management tools allow long-term agronomic sustainability (low herbicide use, efficient weed control, and high productivity). Four 6-year rotations with different constraints (S2: transition from reduced tillage to no-till, chemical weeding; S3: chemical weeding; S4: typical integrated weed management system; S5: mechanical weeding) were compared to a reference (S1: 3-year rotation, systematic ploughing, chemical weeding) in terms of herbicide use, weed management, and productivity over the 2000\u20132017 period. Weed density was measured before and after weeding. Crop and weed biomass were sampled at crop flowering. Compared to S1, herbicide use was reduced by 46, 65, and 99% in S3, S4, and S5 respectively. Herbicide use in S2 was maintained at the same level as S1 (\u2212\u20099%), due to increased weed pressure and dependence to glyphosate for weed control during the fallow period of the no-till phase. Weed biomass was low across all cropping systems (0 to 5\u00a0g of dry matter m\u22122) but weed dynamics were stable over the 17\u00a0years in S1 and S4 only. Compared to S1, productivity at the cropping system scale was reduced by 22% in S2 and by 33% in S3. These differences were mainly attributed to a higher proportion of crops with low intrinsic productivity in S2 and S3. Through S4\u2019s multiperformance, we show for the first time that low herbicide use, long-term weed management, and high crop productivity can be reconciled in grain-based cropping systems provided that a diversified crop rotation integrating a diverse suite of tactics (herbicides included) is implemented.", "keywords": ["2. 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Background and aims: Permafrost degradation has the potential to change the Arctic tundra landscape. We observed rapid local thawing of ice-rich permafrost resulting in thaw pond formation, which was triggered by removal of the shrub cover in a field experiment. This study aimed to examine the rate of permafrost thaw and the initial vegetation succession after the permafrost collapse. Methods: In the experiment, we measured changes in soil thaw depth, plant species cover and soil subsidence over nine years (2007\u20132015). Results: After abrupt initial thaw, soil subsidence in the removal plots continued indicating further thawing of permafrost albeit at a much slower pace: 1 cm y\u22121 over 2012\u20132015 vs. 5 cm y\u22121 over 2007\u20132012. Grass cover strongly increased after the initial shrub removal, but later declined with ponding of water in the subsiding removal plots. Sedges established and expanded in the wetter removal plots. Thereby, the removal plots have become increasingly similar to nearby \u2018natural\u2019 thaw ponds. Conclusions: The nine years of field observations in a unique shrub removal experiment at a Siberian tundra site document possible trajectories of small-scale permafrost collapse and the initial stage of vegetation recovery, which is essential knowledge for assessing future tundra landscape changes.

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An opinion", "description": "High mountain environments are among the most fragile on Earth. Due to anthropogenic disturbances and the exposure to extreme weather events, the rates of soil erosion have recently been accelerating, resulting in ecological degradation and geological hazards. Ecological restoration of mountains and an improved understanding of nature-based solutions to mitigate land degradation is therefore of utmost urgency. Identifying hotspots of soil erosion is a first step towards improving mitigation strategies. A promising methodology to identify erosion hotspots is sediment source fingerprinting, that differentiates the properties of soil from different sources, using signatures such as elemental geochemistry or radionuclides. However, in areas with complex lithologies or shallow and poorly developed soils, geochemical fingerprints allow only a rough distinction between erosion hotspots. In this opinion paper, we explore the relevance of environmental DNA (eDNA) that originates from plant litter and fixes onto fine soil particles, as a targeted sediment fingerprinting method sensitive to vegetation that could potentially allow the identification of erosion hotspots and their relative importance from sedimentary deposits. Pioneering studies indicate that eDNA allows not only the detection of specific vegetation communities, but also the identification of individual plant species. Supported by the increasing availability and quality of vegetation maps and eDNA reference libraries, we argue that sediment source fingerprinting using eDNA from plant litter, will evolve into a valuable method to identify hotspots of soil erosion and allow stakeholders to prioritize areas where ecological restoration is necessary in high mountain environments.", "keywords": ["Soil and water bioengineering", "Vegetation", "[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", "550", "Sediment source fingerprinting", "Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "[SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics", "15. Life on land", "Alpine", "01 natural sciences", "[SDV.BV.BOT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "Landslide", "Erosion", "13. 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Our understanding of the rhizosphere is limited by the lack of techniques for in situ live microscopy. Current techniques are either destructive or unsuitable for observing chemical changes within the pore space. To address this limitation, we have developed artificial substrates, termed smart soils, that enable the acquisition and 3D reconstruction of chemical sensors attached to soil particles.

Methods

The transparency of smart soils was achieved using polymer particles with refractive index matching that of water. The surface of the particles was modified both to retain water and act as a local sensor to report on pore space pH via fluorescence emissions. Multispectral signals were acquired from the particles using a light sheet microscope, and machine learning algorithms predicted the changes and spatial distribution in pH at the surface of the smart soil particles.

Results

The technique was able to predict pH live and in situ within \uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.5 units of the true pH value. pH distribution could be reconstructed across a volume of several cubic centimetres around plant roots at 10\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcm resolution. Using smart soils of different composition, we revealed how root exudation and pore structure create variability in chemical properties.

Conclusion

Smart soils captured the pH gradients forming around a growing plant root. Future developments of the technology could include the fine tuning of soil physicochemical properties, the addition of chemical sensors and improved data processing. Hence, this technology could play a critical role in advancing our understanding of complex rhizosphere processes.

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In the highly Zn-, Cu-, Pb- and Cd- contaminated soils, the total number of culturable heterotrophic bacteria were found in low proportions (< 2.6 \u00d7 102 \u2013 1.6 \u00d7 104 g\u22121soil). This bacterial content was slightly similar to that found in moderately polluted and controls soils (6.7 \u00d7 104 \u2013 5.8 \u00d7 106). However, the bacterial diversity and the rhizosphere/soil ratio, which compares the bacterial content (or bacterial charge) around the metallophyte plants with that in non-rhizosphere soil, were the bacteriological parameters mostly affected by heavy metal contamination. The chronic Zinc-stress results in an increase of tolerance to this metal of both the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere bacterial communities. However, in general, the rhizosphere bacterial populations exhibited less tolerance to Zn toxicity than the bacterial population of non-rhizosphere soils. This result suggests that toxic effects of Zn decrease in the rhizosphere soils of the metallophyte plants.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "[SDV.BID.SPT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", " Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "6. 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We investigated the composition and diversity of soil bacterial communities, based on RFLP and 16S rDNA sequencing, in a cropland, a naturally revegetated land with former cultivation disturbance and a primeval forest in the subtropical Karst of southwest China. Our results illustrated that Proteobacteria accounted for 44.8% of the 600 tested clones, making it the most dominant phylum observed. This phylum was followed by Acidobacteria and Planctomycetes for the three Karst soils analyzed. Compared with the primeval forest soil, the proportions of Proteobacteria were decreased by 30.2 and 37.9%, while Acidobacteria increased by 93.9 and 87.9%, and the Shannon-Wiener diversity indices and the physicochemical parameters declined in the cropland and the revegetated land, respectively. Among the three soils, the proportion of dominant bacterial phyla and the diversity indices in the revegetated land were similar to the cropland, implying the bacterial community in the cropland was relatively stable, and the after-effects of cultivation were difficult to eliminate. However, similar distributions of the four Proteobacteria subphyla were observed between the revegetated land and the primeval forest soil. Furthermore, the proportion of Rhizobiales belonging to \u03b1-Proteobacteria was sharply decreased with cultivation compared to the primeval forest soil, while a small cluster of Rhizobiales recurred with vegetation recovery. These results indicated that although the subphyla of the dominant bacterial phylum had some positive responses to 20\u00a0years of vegetation recovery, it is a slow process. Our results suggest that priority should be given to conserve the primeval forest and inoculation of functional microorganisms on the basis of vegetation recovery may be more effective for the restoration of Karst ecosystems after cultivation.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "China", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "15. 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Soil biodiversity, critical for soil health and ecosystem services, is currently under-monitored due to the lack of standardized and efficient methods. We assessed whether refinements to sampling and molecular protocols could improve soil biodiversity detection and monitoring.\u00a0Comparing the 2018 LUCAS soil biodiversity protocols with newly developed national methods, we tested sampling topsoil (0-10 cm) versus deeper layers, larger soil sample sizes for DNA-extraction, taking more subsamples for composite soil samples, and alternative primer sets across 9 Belgian Biopoints included in the LUCAS 2022 survey. The results suggest that significantly more species can be detected in upper soil layers, including the forest floor, while the diversity of taxa and eDNA in the 10\u201330 cm soil layer is insufficient for annelids and arthropods to serve as indicators of ecological change. Additionally, comparison of the universal eukaryotic primers (18S) with primer sets tailored to soil mesofauna and macrofauna, showed that universal 18S primers provide limited resolution for Collembola and Annelida. Overall, the analyses suggest that vertical soil stratification (with two sampling depths) has a greater influence on the captured diversity of soil mesofauna and macrofauna than the number of subsamples, and that the highest diversity is recovered when surface sampling (0\u201310 cm topsoil and forest floor) is combined with a greater number of subsamples and a larger sampled area. With refinement and standardization, eDNA metabarcoding, combined with optimized sampling protocols, could become a powerful and efficient tool for monitoring soil biodiversity in European soils. Description of the files This dataset includes interactive Krona taxonomy charts to visually summarize the diversity and relative read abundance of detected taxa across sampling locations and protocols. Each ring in the chart represents a taxonomic level, with the relative width of segments reflecting the proportion of reads assigned to specific taxa at that level. These charts enable exploration of taxonomic composition and allow for comparisons between the different sampled locations, sampling protocols tested, and primer sets tested. All krona charts were made in R using psadd::plot_krona. To correct for uneven sequencing depth per sample, datasets were rarefied using a random subsampling method to 27913, 31655, 1856, 19728, and 19632 reads for Annelida (Olig01), Collembola (Coll01), Fungi (ITS9mun/ITS4ngsUni), protists (18S), and Archaea (SSU1ArF/SSU1000ArR) respectively. Fauna datasets that are subsets of the total data recovered by a primer set designed to target many different phyla (e.g. 18S) were not rarefied prior to generating the krona plots. ejp_soil_annelida_olig01_27913.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Annelida. The data was generated using the group-specific Olig01 primer set and rarefied to 27,913 reads per sample. ejp_soil_collembola_coll01_31655.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Collembola. The data was generated using the group-specific Coll01 primer set and rarefied to 31,655 reads per sample. ejp_soil_arthropoda_inse01.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Arthropoda (Insecta, Arachnida, Chilopoda, Diplura, and Malacostraca). The data was generated using the Inse01 primer set. ejp_soil_fungi_its9mun_its4ngsuni_1856.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Fungi. The data was generated using the ITS9mun and ITS4ngsUni primer set and rarefied to 1,856 reads per sample. ejp_soil_protists_18s_19728.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for protists. The data was generated using the eukaryotic 18S primer set and rarefied to 19,728 reads per sample. ejp_soil_archaea_ssu1arf_ssu1000arr_19632.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Archaea. The data was generated using the SSU1ArF and SSU1000ArR primer set and rarefied to 19,632 reads per sample. ejp_soil_annelida_18s.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Annelida. The data was generated using the eukaryotic 18S primer set. ejp_soil_collembola_18s.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Collembola. The data was generated using the eukaryotic 18S primer set. ejp_soil_arthropoda_18s.html contains the interactive taxonomy charts for Arthropoda. The data was generated using the eukaryotic 18S primer set. ejp_soil_metadata.csv contains metadata for the samples in this study. It includes information about the sampling locations, the sampling protocols used, the sampling depth (cm), land use type, EUNIS habitat classification, and the LUCAS-ID for each sample.", "keywords": ["soil monitoring", "metabarcoding", "LUCAS", "soil biodiversity", "eDNA"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Lambrechts, Sam, Deflem, Io Sarah, Sensalari, Cecilia, De Backer, Silke, De Beer, Berdien, Neyrinck, Sabrina, De Vos, Bruno,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14845589"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.14845589", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.14845589", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.14845589"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-02-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149346", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-31", "title": "Characterization of the main land processes occurring in Europe (2000-2018) through a MODIS NDVI seasonal parameter-based procedure", "description": "The identification and recognition of the land processes are of vital importance for a proper management of the ecosystem functions and services. However, on-ground land uses/land covers (LULC) characterization is a time-consuming task, often limited to small land areas, which can be solved using remote sensing technologies. The objective of this work is to investigate how the different MODIS NDVI seasonal parameters responded to the main land processes observed in Europe in the 2000-2018 period; characterizing their temporal trend; and evaluating which one reflected better each specific land process. NDVI time-series were evaluated using TIMESAT software, which extracted eight seasonality parameters: amplitude, base value, length of season, maximum value, left and right derivative values and small and large integrated values. These parameters were correlated with the LULC changes derived from COoRdination of INformation on the Environment Land Cover (CLC) for assessing which parameter better characterized each land process. The temporal evolution of the maximum seasonal NDVI was the parameter that better characterized the occurrence of most of the land processes evaluated (afforestation, agriculturalization, degradation, land abandonment, land restoration, urbanization; R2 from 0.67-0.97). Large integrated value also presented significant relationships but they were restricted to two of the three evaluated periods. On the contrary, land processes involving CLC categories with similar NDVI patterns were not well captured with the proposed methodology. These results evidenced that this methodology could be combined with other classification methods for improving LULC identification accuracy or for identifying LULC processes in locations where no LULC maps are available. Such information can be used by policy-makers to draw LULC management actions associated with sustainable development goals. This is especially relevant for areas where food security is at stake and where terrestrial ecosystems are threatened by severe biodiversity loss.", "keywords": ["Land cover", "Urbanization", "CORINE", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Europe", "Normalized difference vegetation index", "13. Climate action", "Land use", "11. 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Hundreds of experiments have manipulated biodiversity as an independent variable and found compelling support that the functioning of ecosystems increases with the diversity of their ecological communities. This research has also identified some of the mechanisms underlying BEF relationships, some context-dependencies of the strength of relationships, as well as implications for various ecosystem services that mankind depends upon. In this paper, we argue that a multitrophic perspective of biotic interactions in random and non-random biodiversity change scenarios is key to advance future BEF research and to address some of its most important remaining challenges. We discuss that the study and the quantification of multitrophic interactions in space and time facilitates scaling up from small-scale biodiversity manipulations and ecosystem function assessments to management-relevant spatial scales across ecosystem boundaries. We specifically consider multitrophic conceptual frameworks to understand and predict the context-dependency of BEF relationships. Moreover, we highlight the importance of the eco-evolutionary underpinnings of multitrophic BEF relationships. We outline that FAIR data (meeting the standards of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) and reproducible processing will be key to advance this field of research by making it more integrative. Finally, we show how these BEF insights may be implemented for ecosystem management, society, and policy. Given that human well-being critically depends on the multiple services provided by diverse, multitrophic communities, integrating the approaches of evolutionary ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology in future BEF research will be key to refine conservation targets and develop sustainable management strategies.", "keywords": ["580", "Biodiversity change", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "Geography & travel", "577", "Food web", "Spatial scaling", "910", "15. Life on land", "ddc:910", "Ecosystem functions", "Management", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "03 medical and health sciences", "Eco-evolution", "13. Climate action", "11. 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Raddiana Tree On Wheat And Barley Yield In The South Of Tunisia", "description": "no abstract", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "ARID ZONE", "GEOMORPHOLOGY", "SOIL ENRICHMENT", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "RENDEMENT C\u00c9R\u00c9ALIER", "01 natural sciences", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "YIELD", "G\u00c9OMORPHOLOGIE", "13. Climate action", "ACACIA TORTILIS RADDIANA", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "RAINFALL", "INTERACTION", "TREE", "CEREALS"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.004"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Acta%20Oecologica", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.004", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.004", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.004"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agee.2010.01.017", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-02-26", "title": "Resilience Of Acid Subalpine Grassland To Short-Term Liming And Fertilisation", "description": "Une exp\u00e9rience de fertilisation a d\u00e9but\u00e9 en 1989 dans les Alpes fran\u00e7aises, sur une prairie acidophile situ\u00e9e \u00e0 2000 m d'altitude, o\u00f9 de la chaux (\u00ab chaulage \u00bb) et des scories enrichies par chlorure de potassium (\u00ab fertilisation \u00bb) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 apport\u00e9s jusqu'en 1992. Depuis, aucun autre amendement n'a \u00e9t\u00e9 appliqu\u00e9. En 2007 nous avons revisit\u00e9 l'exp\u00e9rience et avons observ\u00e9 que le pH du sol \u00e9tait toujours sensiblement plus haut sur les placettes chaul\u00e9es, alors que les concentrations du sol en azote (N) \u00e9taient inf\u00e9rieures dans ces m\u00eames placettes. Sur les placettes fertilis\u00e9es, le carbone du sol (C) et les concentrations en N \u00e9taient inf\u00e9rieurs compar\u00e9s aux placettes non-fertilis\u00e9es. Cependant, la qualit\u00e9 de la liti\u00e8re (concentrations en C et N, donn\u00e9es SPIRS) \u00e9tait semblable pour les deux traitements. La composition floristique, mais pas la richesse sp\u00e9cifique, s'est r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9e \u00eatre diff\u00e9rente entre les placettes chaul\u00e9es et non-chaul\u00e9es, et les placettes fertilis\u00e9es et non-fertilis\u00e9es. Ces changements sont probablement dus \u00e0 la diminution de la proportion de gramin\u00e9es acidophiles autrefois dominantes et \u00e0 une augmentation des plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9ralistes et meilleures fourrag\u00e8res. Cependant, ces changements n'ont pas influenc\u00e9 la productivit\u00e9. Les concentrations en N et C et les donn\u00e9es de SPIRS ont indiqu\u00e9 une modification de la composition chimique de la v\u00e9g\u00e9tation en r\u00e9ponse aux traitements. Nous concluons que trois ann\u00e9es de fertilisation et chaulage ont influenc\u00e9 la composition floristique et men\u00e9 \u00e0 une banalisation de la v\u00e9g\u00e9tation encore visible 15 ann\u00e9es plus tard. Ces changements sont probablement durables \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 les modifications du fonctionnement du sol qu'ils ont engendr\u00e9es.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. 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Combining conservation practice, such as no-tillage, with winter cover crops may increase microbial activity and enhance soil quality more than either practice alone. This research evaluated the benefits of long-term (23 years) winter cover crops and reduced tillage on soil microbial quality indicators in an Oxisol from Parana State, Southern Brazil. The winter cover treatments were: fallow, black oat, wheat, radish, blue lupin, and hairy vetch in conventional (plow) or no-tillage management; the summer crop was a soybean/maize rotation. Soil quality parameters included organic C, microbial biomass C and N, total and labile polysaccharide, easily extractable and total glomalin-related soil protein, and enzyme activity. Winter crops increased soil microbial quality parameters compared to fallow in both tillage systems, with greater relative increase in conventional than no-tillage. No-tillage had higher microbial biomass, polysaccharide, glomalin-related soil protein, and soil enzyme activity than conventional tillage. Including legumes in the crop rotation was important for N balance in the soil\u2013plant system, increasing soil organic C content, and enhancing soil quality parameters to a greater extent than grasses or radish. The microbial parameters proved to be more sensitive indicators of soil change than soil organic C. Cultivating winter cover crop with either tillage is a beneficial practice enhancing soil microbial quality and also soil organic C stocks.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil biology", "13. Climate action", "Biodiversity and ecosystem services", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Elcio L. Balota, Ademir Calegari, Andre S. Nakatani, Mark S. Coyne,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.07.010"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture%2C%20Ecosystems%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.07.010", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.07.010", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agee.2014.07.010"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agee.2017.04.007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-04-21", "title": "Shade Trees Have Limited Benefits For Soil Fertility In Cocoa Agroforests", "description": "Abstract Agroforestry is often promoted as a sustainable agricultural practice that can ameliorate causes of declining yields, such as soil degradation. However, despite the often-stated potential of agroforestry, quantitative data on the benefits of shade trees are limited to relatively few cropping systems, particularly maize and coffee. Furthermore, agroforests are not cost-free and the benefits of agroforests might not be sufficient to outweigh these costs in all cropping systems or environments. Here we quantify costs and benefits of agroforests for cocoa production in Ghana, West Africa. Specifically, we quantified the ability of shade trees to increase soil carbon stocks and soil fertility (i.e. total soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, available phosphorus and potassium, cation exchange capacity, soil aggregation, pH, and foliar nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations), and investigate if these benefits are sufficient to outweigh the negative effects of shade trees on cocoa growth and yields. We measured cocoa yields, soil fertility and carbon-sequestration under individual shade trees, and in 30\u00a0\u00d7\u00a030\u00a0m plots that were distributed along a gradient of shade-tree cover (plot-scale). We found localized positive effects of individual shade trees on soil carbon and nitrogen content, as well as soil aggregation. However, we found no evidence for positive effects of agroforests via improved soil fertility or carbon-sequestration with increasing shade-tree cover at the plot scale, a scale that more closely matches the scale at which agroforests are managed. Cocoa growth was lower under individual shade trees and decreased with increasing shade-tree cover in plots, and cocoa yields also decreased with increasing shade-tree cover. Our results indicate that the benefits of agroforestry for soil fertility and carbon sequestration in cocoa cultivation systems might not be as extensive as believed, and may not be sufficient to compensate for short-term costs to production.", "keywords": ["Theobroma-Cacao", "2. Zero hunger", "571", "Landscapes", "Tropical Agroforestry", "Systems", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Management", "12. 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Phenological observations of leaves and wood formation were performed weekly from summer 2017 to summer 2018 for pedunculate oak, European beech and silver birch in Belgium. The variability of bud-burst was correlated to previous' year autumn phenology (i.e. the onset of leaf senescence and the cessation of wood formation) and tree size but with important differences among species. In fact, variability of bud-burst was primarily related to onset of leaf senescence, cessation of wood formation and tree height for oak, beech and birch, respectively. The inter-individual variability of onset of leaf senescence was not related to the tree characteristics considered and was much larger than the inter-individual variability in bud-burst. Multi-species multivariate models could explain up to 66% of the bud-burst variability. These findings represent an important advance in our fundamental understanding and modelling of phenology and tree functioning of deciduous tree species.", "keywords": ["Agriculture and Food Sciences", "0106 biological sciences", "Atmospheric Science", "polno olistanje", "Broadleaved forest", "Silver birch", "Edellauvskog", "coloration", "01 natural sciences", "fenologija", "navadna bukev", "Pedunculate oak", "FAGUS-SYLVATICA", "PHLOEM", "Global and Planetary Change", "LEAF PHENOLOGY", "CLIMATE-CHANGE", "VDP::\u00d8kologi: 488", "Physics", "Forestry", "VDP::Ecology: 488", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "dob", "navadna breza", "Chemistry", "Phenology", "info:eu-repo/classification/udc/630*811", "rumenenje listov", "XYLEM", "MODELS", "Article", "leaf unfolding", "Fenologi", "Coloration", "nastanek lesa", "Biology", "Wood formation", "kambij", "Leaf unfolding", "RADIAL GROWTH", "15. 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Climate action", "wood formation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "Agronomy and Crop Science"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108031"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20and%20Forest%20Meteorology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108031", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108031", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108031"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105585", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-08-15", "title": "Managing both overstory and understory vegetation mitigates the impact of drought on soil nematode communities in a Mediterranean pine forest", "description": "Forest management strategies can effectively mitigate the impacts of drought on tree species, but their effects on soil fauna remain largely unexplored. Among soil organisms, soil nematodes can serve as valuable bioindicators to assess the impact of forest management on soil biodiversity and soil functioning. Consequently, we investigated two related questions in a Mediterranean Pinus halepensis Mill. forest located in southeastern France. First, how do soil nematodes respond to forest management practices? Second, can forest management practices help modulate the effects of Mediterranean summer drought on these soil organisms? We conducted a field experiment in which we explored the influence of two forest management techniques-tree thinning (intense, moderate, or absent) and understory removal (shrubs present or absent)-on soil nematodes before and after the summer drought. We found that only total and bacterivorous nematode abundances were positively influenced by the forest management practices. The highest values were observed under conditions of intense thinning combined with shrub presence, with an average of 97,509 individuals per kg of dry soil. In contrast, the abundances of all nematodes, with the exception of predaceous nematodes, were lower after the summer drought with a reduction ranging from-55 % to-82 %. Total, bacterivorous, and fungivorous nematode abundances were less negatively affected by the summer drought under conditions of moderate thinning when shrubs were present versus absent. More generally, we discovered that bacterivorous and fungivorous nematodes were particularly sensitive to the forest management practices and the summer drought. It is thus apparent that habitat alterations induced by forest management can strongly affect nematode community structure and could therefore prompt shifts in ecosystem functioning. Finally, this study highlights that, in forests, understory vegetation can have significant positive impacts on soil nematode populations when severe dry periods occur.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "Forest management", "Drought", "Soil nematodes", "15. Life on land", "630", "6. Clean water", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "13. 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Monitoring biodiversity is seldom comprehensive, as the spatio-temporal resolution needed to accurately reflect dynamic changes of these communities in diverse environments is often lacking. Citizen science offers a promising tool to help fill these gaps, engaging a wider audience in monitoring efforts and thus enhancing our understanding of earthworm ecology. However, a significant challenge arises as earthworms are difficult to identify to the species level in the field by non-experts, necessitating the use of morphotypes as taxonomic proxies. This study evaluates the reliability of earthworm classification into four earthworm morphotypes within the \u2018500 ENI\u2019 (Non-intended Effects) Monitoring Network in France. The network relies on annual sampling conducted in agricultural lands by non-specialist participants with subsequent identification verification by earthworm taxonomists. Analyzing >48,000 individual earthworms collected over 950 plots, we calculated two indices: the misclassification rate (MR) and the undetected rate (UR) to assess the reliability of classification into earthworm morphotypes. The results indicated an average MR of 28 % and an average UR of 32 %, which both varied according to morphotypes. Endogeics had lower error rates compared to epigeics, anecics with a red anterior, and anecics with a black anterior. Our findings underscored the significant impact of sampler experience and earthworm community composition on the reliability of classification of individuals into morphotypes by citizens. The results highlight the critical need for enhanced support and guidance for participants with limited experience. Furthermore, we recommend providing additional training or resources to aid in morphotype classification, especially for earthworm communities exhibiting low abundance, low adult proportion, or low morphotype diversity. Encouraging participants to sample during periods favorable for detecting reliable total and adult abundances would also help optimize morphotype detection.

", "keywords": ["[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "Monitoring", "Participants' experience", "Participatory science", "Data quality", "Earthworm morphological group Data quality Monitoring Participants' experience Participatory science Training", "Earthworm morphological group", "Training"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Hoeffner, Kevin, Bergerot, Benjamin, Butt, Kevin, G\u00e9rard, Sylvain, Pelosi, C\u00e9line, P\u00e9r\u00e8s, Gu\u00e9nola, Briones, Maria J.I., Deca\u00ebns, Thibaud, Delaveau, Natacha, Guillocheau, Sarah, Hedde, Micka\u00ebl, Hotte, Ho\u00ebl, Le Bayon, Ren\u00e9e-Claire, Muys, Bart, Phillips, Helen R.P., Poupelin, Maxime, Cluzeau, Daniel,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106329"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Soil%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106329", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106329", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106329"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.baae.2021.10.001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-12", "title": "Taxonomic and functional characteristics of field edge weed communities under contrasting crop management strategies", "description": "Abstract The widespread loss of weed diversity and associated ecosystem functions is raising important concerns. Field edges could play a major role in the maintenance of weed functional diversity in arable landscapes as these habitats still harbour high weed diversity, owing to either a reduced farming management intensity and/or to a spillover of species from adjacent perennial field margins. Here, we investigated the taxonomic and functional characteristics of weed species recorded in surveys of field edges and their associated field cores over six consecutive years in 60 arable fields farmed with five crop management strategies. We found that field edges were richer, with species more functionally diverse and composition more stable over years than field core surveys. The distribution of individual functional traits differed between field edges and field cores, with higher values for seed mass and nitrophily (Ellenberg.N), and a wider distribution of specific leaf area values in field edges. The bimodal distribution of plant height and germination period observed in field edges became unimodal in field cores. Field edges harboured species with ecological strategies associated with field cores (ruderal species) plus a conservative strategy which could be explained by a spillover from the adjacent perennial field margins. Crop management strategies impacted field edge flora, though to a lesser extent than the field core flora whereas the functional differences between the field edge and the field core flora were less marked when crop management intensity was lower. These results indicate that field edges harbour a unique assemblage of species and highly contribute to the maintenance of weed diversity in arable landscapes. Future studies should thus focus on the importance of these specific functional traits to the agroecosystem functioning.", "keywords": ["agroecology", "disturbance", "[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "functional ecology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "630", "plant traits", "field margin", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "ecological strategy", "species spillover", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "biodiversity conservation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.10.001"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Basic%20and%20Applied%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.baae.2021.10.001", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.baae.2021.10.001", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.baae.2021.10.001"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.024", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-12-19", "title": "Alpha- And Beta-Diversity In Moth Communities In Salt Marshes Is Driven By Grazing Management", "description": "

This study evaluates the effects of long-term sheep grazing in salt marshes on the diversity of moths and derives conclusive management suggestions for the conservation of invertebrate diversity in salt marshes. Study sites were located on the Hamburger Hallig, on the Western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Between 2006 and 2009, salt marshes that have been under four levels of livestock density (0, 1-2 sheep/ha, 3-4 sheep/ha, 10 sheep/ha) for over 20 years were sampled using light traps and photoeclectors. Plant and moth species richness were highest under low stocking densities, moth species richness, however, showed no difference between low stocking densities and abandonment. Species richness of moths was only weakly correlated with vegetation parameters (species richness, vegetation height, cover and litter). Using additive diversity partitioning we show that no single grazing treatment harbored all recorded moth species and that grazing increases habitat heterogeneity within each treatment. Additionally, we show that moths react more sensitively to grazing than plants, and that therefore assessments of plant species richness in salt marshes do not allow conclusions on invertebrate diversity. For the evaluation of salt-marsh diversity, a multi-species approach should be favored combining plant and invertebrate assessments. A mosaic of abandoned sites and sites with low and intermediate stocking densities would benefit moth diversity in salt-marsh conservation. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Also, the EU\u2019s Farm to Fork Strategy and the Zero Pollution Action Plan aim for soil protection. However, the status of soil biodiversity protection has not been comprehensively assessed. Therefore, we explored regulatory, incentive-based and knowledge-based instruments and strategic policy documents at the EU and national levels to determine whether they adequately protect soil biodiversity. Our review of 507 literature references concluded that only eight EU member states explicitly address threats to soil biodiversity in 14 regulatory instruments while 13 countries mainly focus on implicit threats to soil biodiversity, whereas six countries do not consider soil biodiversity. At the EU level, current directives and regulations only tackle individual threats to soil biodiversity. An EU-wide, legally binding protection could ensure a standardised minimum level of soil biodiversity protection while preventing surging costs of not acting. The EU Soil Health Law foreseen for 2023 could couple land management practices beneficial for soil biodiversity with incentive-based instruments. Simultaneously, models should be designed to predict soil biodiversity, considering soil biodiversity\u2019s spatial and temporal heterogeneity.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "2511.06 Conservaci\u00f3n de Suelos", "13. Climate action", "Common Agricultural Policy", " Green Deal", " Soil biodiversity conservation", " Soil governance", " Soil protection", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "K\u00f6ninger, J., Panagos, P., Jones, A., Briones, M.J.I., Orgiazzi, A.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109475"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biological%20Conservation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109475", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109475", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109475"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.tree.2018.01.007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:17:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-02-19", "title": "Towards the Integration of Niche and Network Theories", "description": "The quest for understanding how species interactions modulate diversity has progressed by theoretical and empirical advances following niche and network theories. Yet, niche studies have been limited to describe coexistence within tropic levels despite incorporating information about multi-trophic interactions. Network approaches could address this limitation, but they have ignored the structure of species interactions within trophic levels. Here we call for the integration of niche and network theories to reach new frontiers of knowledge exploring how interactions within and across trophic levels promote species coexistence. This integration is possible due to the strong parallelisms in the historical development, ecological concepts, and associated mathematical tools of both theories. We provide a guideline to integrate this framework with observational and experimental studies.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "Feasibility", "Multi-trophic networks", "Species interactions", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Stability", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "Coexistence", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.01.007"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Trends%20in%20Ecology%20%26amp%3B%20Evolution", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.tree.2018.01.007", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.tree.2018.01.007", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.tree.2018.01.007"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.tree.2017.12.007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:17:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-01-08", "title": "Energy Flux: The Link between Multitrophic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning", "description": "Relating biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in natural communities has become a paramount challenge as links between trophic complexity and multiple ecosystem functions become increasingly apparent. Yet, there is still no generalised approach to address such complexity in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) studies. Energy flux dynamics in ecological networks provide the theoretical underpinning of multitrophic BEF relationships. Accordingly, we propose the quantification of energy fluxes in food webs as a powerful, universal tool for understanding ecosystem functioning in multitrophic systems spanning different ecological scales. Although the concept of energy flux in food webs is not novel, its application to BEF research remains virtually untapped, providing a framework to foster new discoveries into the determinants of ecosystem functioning in complex systems.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "ecological stoichiometry", "Food Chain", "food web", "interaction network", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "metabolic theory", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "630", "004", "trophic cascade", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "ecosystem multifunctionality", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.12.007"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Trends%20in%20Ecology%20%26amp%3B%20Evolution", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.tree.2017.12.007", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.tree.2017.12.007", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.tree.2017.12.007"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.tree.2020.10.006", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:17:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-11-06", "title": "Organic Matter Degradation across Ecosystem Boundaries: The Need for a Unified Conceptualization", "description": "The global carbon cycle connects organic matter (OM) pools in soil, freshwater, and marine ecosystems with the atmosphere, thereby regulating their size and reactivity. Due to the complexity of biogeochemical processes and historically compartmentalized disciplines, ecosystem-specific conceptualizations of OM degradation have emerged independently of developments in other ecosystems. Recent discussions regarding the relative importance of molecular composition and ecosystem properties on OM degradation have diverged in opposing directions across subdisciplines, leaving our understanding inconsistent. Ecosystem-dependent theories are problematic since properties unique to an ecosystem may change in response to anthropogenic stressors, including climate change. The next breakthrough in our understanding of OM degradation requires a shift in focus towards developing a unified theory of controls on OM across ecosystems.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "[CHIM.ANAL] Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry", "global carbon cycle", "[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "Climate Change", "Concept Formation", "soil", "Carbon Cycle", "Global carbon cycle", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Freshwater", "[CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry", "[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", "Dissolved organic matter", "14. Life underwater", "degradation rates", "freshwater", "Ecosystem", "organic matter", "Degradation rates", "0303 health sciences", "Marine", "marine", "biogeochemical cycles", "organic matter persistence", "dissolved organic matter", "15. Life on land", "Milj\u00f6vetenskap", "Biogeochemical cycles", "Carbon", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "Organic matter persistence", "13. 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We used a controlled experimental setup to explore hydrophilic Escherichia coli (E. coli) and hydrophobic Rhodococcus erythropolis (PTCC1767) (R. erythropolis) transport through dry (-\u00a015,000\u00a0cm water potential) and water saturated (0\u00a0cm water potential) wettable and water-repellent sand columns. A pulse of bacteria (1\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0108 CFU mL-1) and bromide (10\u00a0mmol\u00a0L-1) moved through the columns under saturated flow (0\u00a0cm) for four pore volumes. A second bacteria and bromide pulse was then poured on the column surfaces and leaching was extended six more pore volumes. In dry wettable sand attachment dominated E. coli retention, whereas R. erythropolis was dominated by straining. Once wetted, the dominant retention mechanisms flipped between these bacteria. Attachment by either bacteria decreased markedly in water-repellent sand, so straining was the main retention mechanism. We explain this from capillary potential energy, which enhanced straining under the formation of water films at very early times (i.e., imbibing) and film thinning at much later times (i.e., draining). The interaction between the hydrophobicity of bacteria and soil on transport, retention and release mechanisms needs greater consideration in predictions.", "keywords": ["Bromides", "2040 Environment and Biodiversity", "570", "Supplementary Information", "Wetting characteristics", "Vadose zone", "610", "Soil", "Colloid and Surface Chemistry", "Sand", "Pore-scale processes", "Escherichia coli", "Physical and Theoretical Chemistry", "European Commission", "101026287", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "Drought", "T", "Water", "Surfaces and Interfaces", "T Technology", "Interfacial processes", "3. Good health", "TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering", "Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant", "EU Horizon 2020", "SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation", "TC", "Porosity", "Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions", "Biotechnology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2023.113433"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Colloids%20and%20Surfaces%20B%3A%20Biointerfaces", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.colsurfb.2023.113433", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.colsurfb.2023.113433", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2023.113433"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.06.037", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-07-26", "title": "Complementarity Of Rarity, Specialisation And Functional Diversity Metrics To Assess Community Responses To Environmental Changes, Using An Example Of Spider Communities In Salt Marshes", "description": "The study of community responses to environmental changes can be enhanced by the recent development of new metrics useful in applied conservation: relative rarity, ecological specialisation and functional diversity. These different metrics have been critically assessed independently, but are rarely combined in applied conservation studies, especially for less-studied taxa such as arthropods. Here we report how these different metrics can complement each other by using the response of spider communities to environmental changes in salt marshes as an example. Sampling took place using pitfall traps in salt marshes of the Mont St Michel Bay (France) during 2004 and 2007. The sampling design was spatially replicated (3 plots per treatment and 4 traps per plot) and encompassed four habitat treatments: control, sheep grazing, cutting (annual, in summer) and invasion by the plant Elymus athericus. We observed contrasting responses of spider communities to the different treatments: grazing had a negative impact on both rarity and functional diversity but a positive impact on specialisation; cutting had a negative impact on the three metrics; and invasion only had a negative impact on rarity and specialisation. These contrasting responses emphasise the necessity of using different complementary community metrics in such conservation studies. Consequently, rarity-, specialisation-, and functional-based indices should be applied simultaneously more frequently, as they potentially provide additional complementary information about communities. Such complementary information is the key to better-informed conservation choices.", "keywords": ["[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "0106 biological sciences", "Grazing", "Cutting", "Functional divergence", "Spiders", "15. 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We worked with a community in Eastern Panama to determine the average above- and below-ground C stocks of three land-use types in their territory: managed forest, agroforests and pasture. We examined evidence for a functional relationship between tree-species diversity and C storage in each land-use type, and also explored how the use of particular tree species by community members could affect C storage. We found that managed forests in this landscape stored an average of 335 Mg C ha \ufffd 1 , traditional agroforests an average of 145 Mg C ha \ufffd 1 , and pastures an average of 46 Mg C ha \ufffd 1 including all vegetation-based C stocks and soil C to 40 cm depth. We did not detect a relationship between diversity and C storage; however, the relative contributions of species to C storage per hectare in forests and agroforests were highly skewed and often were not proportional to species\u2019 relative abundances. We conclude that protecting forests from conversion to pasture would have the greatest positive impact on C stocks, even though the forests are managed by community members for timber and non-timber forest products. However, because several of the tree species that contribute the most to C storage in forests were identified by community members as preferred timber species, we suggest that species-level management will be important to avoiding C-impoverishment through selective logging in these forests. Our data also indicate that expanding agroforests into areas currently under pasture could sequester significant amounts of carbon while providing biodiversity and livelihood benefits that the most common reforestation systems in the region \u2013 monoculture teak plantations \u2013 do not provide. # 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "Tropical land-use change", "0106 biological sciences", "Clean development mechanism", "13. 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Using an established primer set for AMF in the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of rDNA, nine different AMF sequence types were distinguished after phylogenetic analyses, showing remarkable differences in their distribution patterns along the transect. With decreasing Pb and Zn concentration, the number of AMF sequence types increased, however one sequence type was only found in the highly contaminated area. Multivariate statistical analysis revealed that further factors than HM soil concentration affect the AMF community at contaminated sites. Specifically, the soils' calcium carbonate equivalent and available P proved to be of importance, which illustrates that field studies on AMF distribution should also consider important environmental factors and their possible interactions.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Soil", "Zinc", "03 medical and health sciences", "Lead", "13. Climate action", "Mycorrhizae", "Soil Pollutants", "Biodiversity", "15. 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Particularities of air pollution in this region include high O3 levels due to high air temperatures and solar radiation, the stability of air masses, and dominance of dry over wet nitrogen deposition. Moreover, the unique abiotic and biotic factors (e.g., climate, vegetation type, relevance of Saharan dust inputs) modulating the response of Mediterranean ecosystems at various spatiotemporal scales make it difficult to understand, and thus predict, the consequences of human activities that cause air pollution in the Mediterranean Basin. Therefore, there is an urgent need to implement coordinated research and experimental platforms along with wider environmental monitoring networks in the region. In particular, a robust deposition monitoring network in conjunction with modelling estimates is crucial, possibly including a set of common biomonitors (ideally cryptogams, an important component of the Mediterranean vegetation), to help refine pollutant deposition maps. Additionally, increased attention must be paid to functional diversity measures in future air pollution and climate change studies to establish the necessary link between biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services in Mediterranean ecosystems. Through a coordinated effort, the Mediterranean scientific community can fill the above-mentioned gaps and reach a greater understanding of the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of air pollution and climate change in the Mediterranean Basin.", "keywords": ["air pollution; climate change; coordinated research networks; environmental monitoring; functional diversity; Mediterranean ecosystems; toxicology; pollution", "570", "Coordinated research networks", "550", "Nitrogen", "Climate", "Climate Change", "Air pollution", "Functional diversity", "01 natural sciences", "Air Pollution", "11. Sustainability", "Climate change", "Humans", "14. Life underwater", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. 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This study demonstrated that afforestation altered fungal community structure and that changes were correlated to pools of soil C. Pasture at three locations on the same soil type was afforested with Eucalyptus globulus or Pinus pinaster. The structure of fungal communities under the three land uses was measured after 13y using automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA). Afforestation significantly altered the structure of fungal communities. The effect of location on the structure of fungal communities was limited to pasture soils; although these contained the same plant species, the relative composition of each species varied between locations. Differences in the structure of fungal communities between pasture, E. globulus and P. pinaster were significantly correlated with changes in the amount of total organic C and microbial biomass-C in soil. Afforestation of patches of agricultural land may contribute to conserving soil fungi in agricultural landscapes by supporting fungal communities with different composition to agricultural soils.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "Fungi", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Nous avons men\u00e9 une exp\u00e9rience sur le terrain en utilisant des sacs de liti\u00e8re avec trois tailles de maille diff\u00e9rentes qui ont permis l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la microfaune (0,1 mm), \u00e0 la micro et m\u00e9sofaune (2 mm) et \u00e0 la faune totale du sol (5 mm) pour \u00e9valuer la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re foliaire de deux esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 des champignons mycorhiziens arbusculaires (MA) et de trois esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 des champignons ectomycorhiziens (ECM) dans six sites de jardins communs danois. Nous avons \u00e9galement \u00e9valu\u00e9 comment les diff\u00e9rences dans la qualit\u00e9 initiale de la liti\u00e8re, les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol et la composition de la communaut\u00e9 microbienne parmi les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres peuvent affecter la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re ainsi que les effets de la faune du sol sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re. Les r\u00e9sultats ont montr\u00e9 que (1) la perte de masse de la liti\u00e8re variait consid\u00e9rablement selon la taille des mailles et les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, avec des taux de d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re (k) allant de 0,273 \u00e0 3,482\u00a0; (2) l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la m\u00e9sofaune augmentait significativement la liti\u00e8re k de 0,658 pour la MA et de 0,396 pour les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres ECM sans acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la faune du sol, respectivement de 255 et 92%, tandis que l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la fois \u00e0 la m\u00e9so- et \u00e0 la macrofaune augmentait k de 265 et 108% pour les arbres AM et ECM, respectivement\u00a0; (3) l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, l'association mycorhizienne, la qualit\u00e9 initiale de la liti\u00e8re, les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol, la composition des communaut\u00e9s microbiennes et la biomasse de la faune du sol ambiant \u00e9taient tous des facteurs influen\u00e7ant significativement la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re, mais l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres \u00e9tait le facteur dominant ind\u00e9pendamment de la taille des mailles des sacs de liti\u00e8re\u00a0; et (4) les effets de la m\u00e9sofaune sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re \u00e9taient principalement contr\u00f4l\u00e9s par l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, la concentration initiale en Mg de la liti\u00e8re et le rapport lignine\u00a0:N, tandis que le petit impact suppl\u00e9mentaire de l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la macrofaune n'\u00e9tait pas bien expliqu\u00e9 par aucun des facteurs \u00e9valu\u00e9s. Dans l'ensemble, nos r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres affectent la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re via une stimulation diff\u00e9rente du fonctionnement de la faune du sol, et que les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la MA et \u00e0 la mec diff\u00e8rent dans le degr\u00e9 auquel la faune du sol stimule la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re. Cependant, le mod\u00e8le n'\u00e9tait pas enti\u00e8rement coh\u00e9rent car les taux de d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re pour la chaux associ\u00e9e \u00e0 la mec \u00e9taient stimul\u00e9s dans la m\u00eame mesure que les taux pour les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la MA, le fr\u00eane et l'\u00e9rable. Dans l'ensemble, nos r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que les communaut\u00e9s de m\u00e9so- et de macrofaune du sol peuvent am\u00e9liorer les effets des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re ainsi que l'incorporation de la liti\u00e8re C dans le sol min\u00e9ral.", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Litter quality", "Microfauna", "Plant Science", "Soil mesofauna", "01 natural sciences", "Plant litter", "Soil fauna", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Soil biology", "Microbial community", "Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions", "Litter", "Soil water", "Wood Decomposition", "Saproxylic Insect Ecology and Forest Management", "Plant Interactions", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Ecology", "Soil property", "Life Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Fauna", "Insect Science", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Common garden", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Litterbag mesh size"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120396"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forest%20Ecology%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120396", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120396", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120396"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123063", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-08-21", "title": "Influence of thinning intensity on sexual versus vegetative regeneration of Quercus pubescens Willd. coppices", "keywords": ["[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Brasseur, Sol\u00e8ne, Pr\u00e9vosto, Bernard, Dupouyet, Sylvie, Baldy, Virginie, Ballini, Christine, Bousquet-M\u00e9lou, Anne, Santonja, Mathieu,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123063"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forest%20Ecology%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123063", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123063", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123063"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102504", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-18", "title": "Landholders' perceptions on legal reserves and agricultural intensification: Diversity and implications for forest conservation in the eastern Brazilian Amazon", "description": "Open AccessLa protecci\u00f3n de los bosques en tierras de propiedad privada es una piedra angular del marco de la pol\u00edtica ambiental brasile\u00f1a. La legislaci\u00f3n brasile\u00f1a exige que todas las fincas del pa\u00eds mantengan y protejan las \u00e1reas forestales conocidas como Reservas Legales. Dado que las Reservas Legales tienen importantes implicaciones para la protecci\u00f3n de los bosques y la producci\u00f3n agr\u00edcola, es clave que entendamos las percepciones de los propietarios de tierras hacia las Reservas Legales. Aplicamos la metodolog\u00eda Q para identificar diferentes perspectivas de los propietarios medianos y grandes sobre las Reservas Legales y su relaci\u00f3n con la intensificaci\u00f3n agr\u00edcola en el municipio de Paragominas, en la Amazon\u00eda oriental. Realizamos 31 entrevistas en las que los propietarios ordenaron 36 declaraciones en una matriz de distribuci\u00f3n casi normal. Se identificaron tres grupos de propietarios de tierras: 1) los entusiastas de la planificaci\u00f3n del uso de la tierra (n = 16) estaban interesados en iniciativas de zonificaci\u00f3n para explorar dise\u00f1os de paisajes alternativos y legislaci\u00f3n que puedan ofrecer mejores resultados de conservaci\u00f3n y producci\u00f3n; 2) los partidarios de la agricultura basada en agroqu\u00edmicos (n = 7) ten\u00edan los puntos de vista m\u00e1s cr\u00edticos contra las Reservas Legales y percib\u00edan sus costos como m\u00e1s altos que los posibles beneficios ambientales y de calidad de vida; 3) los respondedores del mercado complacientes con las pol\u00edticas (n = 4) no mostraron inter\u00e9s en las reformas de las Reservas Legales y fueron el grupo m\u00e1s impulsado por el mercado. Si bien Paragominas ha logrado \u00e9xitos notables en detener la deforestaci\u00f3n a gran escala a trav\u00e9s de un pacto social de 'Municipio Verde', abordar la persistente degradaci\u00f3n y fragmentaci\u00f3n de los bosques en la regi\u00f3n sigue siendo una prioridad clave. Las iniciativas de gobernanza local que tienen en cuenta las percepciones de m\u00faltiples partes interesadas sobre la protecci\u00f3n de los bosques pueden fomentar el di\u00e1logo y el entendimiento mutuo para conservar y restaurar eficazmente las Reservas Legales. Los conocimientos sobre las percepciones de los grandes terratenientes sobre las Reservas Legales pueden informar dichos procesos de gobernanza para conciliar la protecci\u00f3n forestal y la intensificaci\u00f3n agr\u00edcola sostenible en Paragominas.", "keywords": ["Amazonas (Brasil)", "Economics", "FOS: Political science", "SAO-FELIX", "Social Sciences", "NEEDS", "01 natural sciences", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Reservas Forestales", "Natural resource economics", "conservation des for\u00eats", "FRONTIER", "Stakeholder", "11. Sustainability", "Business", "Environmental resource management", "intensification", "Political science", "Legal Reserve", "Environmental planning", "2. 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Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "r\u00e9serve foresti\u00e8re", "r\u00e9serve naturelle", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "d\u00e9gradation des for\u00eats", "BIODIVERSITY", "DEFORESTATION", "Drivers and Impacts of Tropical Deforestation", "Law", "Finance"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102504"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forest%20Policy%20and%20Economics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102504", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102504", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102504"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.12.018", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-12-29", "title": "Unravelling The Effects Of Plant Species Diversity And Aboveground Litter Input On Soil Bacterial Communities", "description": "Abstract In order to differentiate the effects of root functioning and aboveground litter inputs on soil bacterial communities, a pot experiment was designed using different combinations of three plant species with contrasting chemical characteristics (0, 1, 2 or 3 species per plot) grown with or without aboveground litter inputs from the same plant species (no litter, litter from 1 of the species, or litter from the 3 species). Bacterial community structure (ITS diversity-ARISA), as well as total bacteria and denitrifier abundances (qPCR targeting the 16S rDNA and nirK or nirS genes) and denitrifying enzyme activity (DEA) were determined. No clear effects of the plant and litter identities were revealed over the incubation time. Moreover, differences in litter C:N values did not influence the bacteria or denitrifier abundances nor DEA. Interestingly, litter diversity modified the bacterial community structure, while plant richness altered the total bacteria and denitrifier abundances as well as DEA. Soil moisture appeared to be the major driver of plant and litter richness effects in our experiment.", "keywords": ["Plant and litter diversity", "Plant-microorganisms' interactions", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "13. Climate action", "community functioning", "Bacterial and denitrifying", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "15. 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These communities are an integral part of the soil ecosystem and play an essential role in forest ecosystem functioning related to carbon and nitrogen cycling. Here, by performing a field study across six common gardens in Denmark, we evaluated the effects of tree species identity and mycorrhizal association (i.e., arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) and ectomycorrhiza (ECM)) on soil fauna (meso- and macrofauna) taxonomic and functional community composition by using diversity, abundance, and biomass as proxies. We found that (1) tree species identity and mycorrhizal association both showed significant effects on soil fauna communities, but the separation between community characteristics in AM and ECM tree species was not entirely consistent; (2) total soil fauna abundance, biomass, as well as taxonomic and functional diversity were generally significantly higher under AM tree species, as well as lime, with higher litter quality (high N and base cation and low lignin:N ratio); (3) tree species significantly influenced the properties of litter, forest floor, and soil, among which litter and/or forest floor N, P, Ca, and Mg concentrations, soil pH, and soil moisture predominantly affected soil fauna abundance, biomass, and taxonomic and functional diversity. Our results from this multisite common garden experiment provide strong and consistent evidence of positive effects of tree species with higher litter quality on soil fauna communities in general, which helps to better understand the effects of tree species selection on soil biodiversity and its functions related to forest soil carbon sequestration.", "keywords": ["DECOMPOSITION", "EARTHWORMS", "Diversity", "PH", "FOREST FLOOR", "Common garden experiment", "Soil meso- and macrofauna", "DIVERSITY", "Biology and Life Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "NITROGEN", "CARBON", "Taxonomic group", "FUNCTIONAL TRAITS", "Abundance", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "Functional group", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "BIODIVERSITY", "ABUNDANCE", "Biomass"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115570"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115570", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115570", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115570"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.049", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:36Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-07-15", "title": "Impact Of Sources Of Environmental Degradation On Microbial Community Dynamics In Non-Polluted And Metal-Polluted Soils", "description": "Soils are currently being degraded at an alarming rate due to increasing pressure from different sources of environmental degradation. Consequently, we carried out a 4-month microcosm experiment to measure the impact of different sources of environmental degradation (biodiversity loss, nitrogen deposition and climate change) on soil health in a non-polluted (non-degraded) and a heavily metal-polluted (degraded) soil, and to compare their responses. To this aim, we determined a variety of soil microbial properties with potential as bioindicators of soil health: basal respiration; \u03b2-glucosaminidase and protease activities; abundance (Q-PCR) of bacterial, fungal and chitinase genes; richness (PCR-DGGE) of fungal and chitinase genes. Non-polluted and metal-polluted soils showed different response microbial dynamics when subjected to sources of environmental degradation. The non-polluted soil appeared resilient to 'biodiversity loss' and 'climate change' treatments. The metal-polluted soil was probably already too severely affected by the presence of high levels of toxic metals to respond to other sources of stress. Our data together suggests that soil microbial activity and biomass parameters are more sensitive to the applied sources of environmental degradation, showing immediate responses of greater magnitude, while soil microbial diversity parameters do not show such variations.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Climate Change", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Polymerase Chain Reaction", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "Metals", "13. 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Cover crop (CC) mixtures offer a unique set of advantages that can enhance soil health and agricultural productivity when compared to pure stand CC. However, a quantitative understanding of the varying contributions of different carbon (C) input pathways in CC mixtures is lacking. To address these gaps, a field experiment with multiple-pulse labelling with 13CO2 was used to quantify C-derived from CC mixtures via plant biomass, as well as via phyllo- and rhizodeposition. We assessed the impact of preceding main crops (barley, barley-pea, pea, and faba bean) on soil C input to 75 cm depth by two CC treatments (pure stand ryegrass versus a mixture of chicory, plantain, and ryegrass) and their effect on spontaneous flora (SF) biomass and diversity. In topsoil layers (0\u201325 cm), net C lost to soil via phyllo- and rhizodeposition was higher with mixed CC (30 g C m\u22122) than pure stand ryegrass (25 g C m\u22122). Between 25 and 75 cm, mixed CC and pure stand CC had similar C inputs via rhizodeposition despite larger root biomass in mixed CC. Cover crops reduced SF biomass and diversity, with mixed CC exerting the strongest suppressive effect, reducing biomass (individuals counted) by 57 % compared to the control. The improved efficiency of mixed CC was attributed to species complementarity in leaf and root patterns, resource utilization, and nutrient uptake. In conclusion, well-designed mixed CC had a greater positive impact on soil C inputs and suppression of SF compared to CC pure stand with ryegrass, resulting from complementary above and belowground traits.

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Multiple ecosystem services (ES) can respond similarly to social and ecological factors to form bundles. Identifying key social-ecological variables and understanding how they co-vary to produce these consistent sets of ES may ultimately allow the prediction and modelling of ES bundles, and thus, help us understand critical synergies and trade-offs across landscapes. Such an understanding is essential for informing better management of multi-functional landscapes and minimising costly trade-offs. However, the relative importance of different social and biophysical drivers of ES bundles in different types of social-ecological systems remains unclear. As such, a bottom-up understanding of the determinants of ES bundles is a critical research gap in ES and sustainability science. Here, we evaluate the current methods used in ES bundle science and synthesize these into four steps that capture the plurality of methods used to examine predictors of ES bundles. We then apply these four steps to a cross-study comparison (North and South French Alps) of relationships between social-ecological variables and ES bundles, as it is widely advocated that cross-study comparisons are necessary for achieving a general understanding of predictors of ES associations. We use the results of this case study to assess the strengths and limitations of current approaches for understanding distributions of ES bundles. We conclude that inconsistency of spatial scale remains the primary barrier for understanding and predicting ES bundles. We suggest a hypothesis-driven approach is required to predict relationships between ES, and we outline the research required for such an understanding to emerge.

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The presence of shrub roots and litter inputs should have implications for soil nutrient pool sizes but there is limited information on the interactions of these shrubs with microbial communities involved in biogeochemical processes. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the microbial composition and functional capacity of soil from the rooting zone of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) grown in the presence or absence of the shrub Piliostigma reticulatum in Senegal. Soil samples were collected from a long-term field study where millet was cultivated alone or intercropped with P.\u00a0reticulatum with annual incorporation of coppiced shrub residues. Higher nutrient contents and distinct differences in microbial communities (DGGE profiles) were found between soils from beneath the canopy compared to soil outside the influence of shrubs. The catabolic response profile (MicroResp\u2122) showed that the soil microbial community at both shrub and non-shrub sampling locations, metabolized a wide range of substrates. Trehalose that can work as a signaling molecule was more rapidly degraded in the rooting zone of millet growing in the presence of P.\u00a0reticulatum over millet\u00a0alone. Urease, arylsulfatase and dehydrogenase activities in the millet root zone soil were higher when intercropped with P.\u00a0reticulatum which indicates enhanced potential of biogeochemical processes to proceed in the presence of this shrub. It is concluded that the native shrub P.\u00a0reticulatum promotes a more diverse and active microbial community in the rooting zone of millet and further indicates greater potential to perform decomposition and mineralize nutrients.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "Sub-Saharan Africa", "16S- and ITS-DGGE profiling", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "MicroResp\u2122", "15. Life on land", "Piliostigma reticulatum", "630", "6. Clean water", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "MicroResp (TM)", "16S-and ITS-DGGE profiling", "Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.", "Soil enzyme activity"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2016.01.010"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Arid%20Environments", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2016.01.010", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2016.01.010", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2016.01.010"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.011", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-06-11", "title": "Effects Of Liming On Soil Properties And Plant Performance Of Temperate Mountainous Grasslands", "description": "The application of lime or liming materials to acid-soil grasslands might help mitigate soil acidity, a major constraint to forage productivity in many temperate mountainous grasslands. Nowadays, in these mountainous grasslands, it is essential to promote agricultural practices to increase forage yield and nutritive value while preserving biodiversity and agroecosystem functioning. Two different field experiments were conducted in the Gorbeia Natural Park, northern Spain: (i) one in a calcareous mountainous grassland (Arraba) and (ii) the other in a siliceous mountainous grassland (Kurtzegan) to study the effects of a single application of two liming products, i.e. 2429 kg lime (164.3% CaCO(3)) ha(-1) and 4734 kg calcareous sand (84.3% CaCO(3)) ha(-1), applied one month before the beginning of the sheep grazing season (May-October), on soil chemical (pH, organic C, total N, C/N ratio, %Al saturation, Olsen P, exchangeable K(+) and Ca(2+)) and biological parameters (dehydrogenase, beta-glucosidase, urease, acid phosphatase and arylsulphatase activity) as well as on botanical diversity (graminoids, forbs, shrubs) and forage yield and nutritive value (crude protein, modified acid detergent fibre, digestibility). Untreated control plots were also included in the experiment. Soil sampling was carried out at the end of the sheep grazing season (6 months after liming treatment), while botanical composition was determined one year after treatments application. Although no increase in soil pH was observed in Arraba, liming significantly increased dehydrogenase activity (an indicator of soil microbial activity) by 30.4 and 86.7% at Arraba and Kurtzegan site, respectively. Liming treatments significantly improved forage yield and nutritive value in Arraba but not in Kurtzegan. Furthermore, no differences in soil biological quality, evaluated using the 'treated-soil quality index' as proposed in this work, were observed between treated and untreated soils, and between the two different lime treatments (lime, calcareous sand). It was concluded that, in acid-soil temperate mountainous grasslands, moderate liming treatments have no negative short-term effects either on soil quality or botanical composition, while resulting in improvements in forage yield and nutritive value under some conditions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Oxides", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Calcium Compounds", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "Spain", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Oxidoreductases", "Soil Microbiology", "Environmental Monitoring"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.011"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.011", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.011", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.011"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109391", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-08-21", "title": "Towards ecologically functional riparian zones: A meta-analysis to develop guidelines for protecting ecosystem functions and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes", "description": "Riparian zones contribute with biodiversity and ecosystem functions of fundamental importance for regulating flow and nutrient transport in waterways. However, agricultural land-use and physical changes made to improve crop productivity and yield have resulted in modified hydrology and displaced natural vegetation. The modification to the hydrology and natural vegetation have affected the biodiversity and many ecosystem functions provided by riparian zones. Here we review the literature to provide state-of-the-art recommendations for riparian zones in agricultural landscapes. We analysed all available publications since 1984 that have quantified services provided by riparian zones and use this information to recommend minimum buffer widths. We also analysed publications that gave buffer width recommendations to sustain different groups of organisms. We found that drainage size matters for nutrient and sediment removal, but also that a 3\u202fm wide buffer zone acts as a basic nutrient filter. However, to maintain a high floral diversity, a 24\u202fm buffer zone is required, while a 144\u202fm buffer is needed to preserve bird diversity. Based on the analysis, we developed the concept of 'Ecologically Functional Riparian Zones' (ERZ) and provide a step-by-step framework that managers can use to balance agricultural needs and environmental protection of waterways from negative impacts. By applying ERZ in already existing agricultural areas, we can better meet small targets and move towards the long-term goal of achieving a more functional land management and better environmental status of waterways.", "keywords": ["Riparian zone", "river", "nutrient uptake", "hydrology", "Review", "water quality", "01 natural sciences", "Ecological functional riparian zones", "waterway transport", "freshwater environment", "biodiversity", "agriculture", "2. Zero hunger", "filter", "hydrological regime", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "Milj\u00f6vetenskap", "functional role", "6. Clean water", "riparian ecosystem", "agricultural land", "Aves", "Environmental Monitoring", "sandy loam", "crop production", "rural area", "12. Responsible consumption", "Buffer zone", "water temperature", "Rivers", "ecosystem function", "controlled study", "human", "14. Life underwater", "environmental protection", "Ecosystem", "environmental monitoring", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "ecosystem", "Agricultural", "Vegetation", "practice guideline", "species composition", "land management", "Water", "land use", "soil property", "soil texture", "landscape", "15. Life on land", "13. Climate action", "Environmental Sciences", "meta analysis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109391"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109391", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109391", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109391"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jnc.2016.09.003", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-09-15", "title": "Biodiversity And Ecological Long-Term Plots In Southern Patagonia To Support Sustainable Land Management: The Case Of Pebanpa Network", "description": "Historically, interactions and trends between biodiversity, ecosystem function (EF) and land use practices in southern Patagonia (Argentina) have been largely undocumented and poorly understood. Since 2002, 1214 permanent and semi-permanent plots within the PEBANPA Network have enabled researchers to monitor and assess functions and trends among vegetation parameters, biodiversity, forest dynamics, soil physicochemical characteristics, and land use management. The objectives of this manuscript are to communicate the role and rationale of the PEBANPA Network, summarize examples of the main results found within the network and provide guidance to decision makers with respect to advancing sustainable land management in southern Patagonia. As examples, rangeland health indices, seedling and sapling regeneration under different timber managed forests, litterfall and seeds production under silvopastoral use, and soil carbon content impacted by livestock grazing have all been assessed. Vegetation and environmental variables including soil respiration, soil water infiltration, soil water retention capacity, soil erosion, and litter cover were measured under different grazing intensities. Livestock and forestry production have caused changes in the original floristic patterns, with several areas experiencing desertification. Heavy stocking rates have caused the greatest impacts on grassland soil carbon (C) loss as a consequence of soil erosion. We were able to conclude that low \u2212 medium grazing intensities yield the most positive impacts for biodiversity and soil physicochemical characteristics. Studies regarding levels of seedling and sapling regeneration post-harvest of timber further supported the importance of long-term monitoring due to the strongest evidence of interactions occurring 20 to 30 years after harvest. Distribution patterns of vascular plants and epigaeic coleopterons diversity revealed statistically significant differences among geographical zones and dominant vegetation types. The PEBANPA Network helps southern Patagonia address the challenges of unsustainable land management and climate change through monitoring ecosystem function and services. Long-term monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem function help decision makers better understand the impacts of land use practices, develop well-informed policies and secure present and future human well-being.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "LIVESTOCK GRAZING", "ECOSYSTEM SERVICES", "LAND USE PRACTICES", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "CARBON SEQUESTRATION", "13. 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In recent years, there has been concern about possible changes in the suitability of the site for Redshank (Trigna totanus) due to sika deer (Cervus nippon) grazing. In order to assess these changes, 50 plots were established in three different locations: 20 in grazed areas, 20 in ungrazed areas and 10 fenced enclosures. Deer grazing was found to significantly affect structural and species diversity of the saltmarsh vegetation. Spartina anglica dominated in ungrazed areas whilst Salicornia ramosissima and, to a lesser extent, Puccinellia maritima dominated in grazed sites. In grazed areas the vegetation cover was significantly lower, as was vegetation height and volume. In addition, significant changes were observed in the root biomass, which was lower in grazed areas. Infaunal diversity was generally low throughout the survey area. However, significant variations were observed. Invertebrates abundance was more abundant in grazed plots than in ungrazed plots, and least abundant in fenced plots. The study indicated that in its current condition, localised areas of Arne saltmarsh do not provide adequate habitat requirements for Tringa totanus.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Deer", "Population Dynamics", "Animals", " Wild", "Biodiversity", "Feeding Behavior", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "England", "Species Specificity", "Animals", "Ecosystem", "Environmental Monitoring"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Justine Hannaford, Eunice Pinn, Anita Diaz,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.09.017"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Marine%20Pollution%20Bulletin", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.09.017", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.09.017", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.09.017"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101391", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-08-15", "title": "Bridging soil biodiversity and human well-being: An actionable framework to measure links between the natural capital and plural value of soils", "description": "Human activities contribute to soil degradation globally, endangering life belowground and services like food production and climate regulation. To reverse this situation, an actionable framework to connect soil health and soil biodiversity status with human well-being, integrating the biophysical, economic, and social domains, is urgently needed. Here, learning from previous generalist and soil-specific frameworks, we introduce the Soil Biodiversity and Well-being Framework, which creates the conceptual architecture to quantifiably link soil natural capital with human beneficiaries, soil management, environmental pressures, and societal responses. Furthermore, we outline the requirements for its operationalization, based on a flexible set of measurable indicators for soil natural capital assets, plural valuation of soil-mediated nature's contributions to people, and human well-being. The implementation of the framework by multiple stakeholders (e.g., scientists, farmers, or policymakers) can generate the multidimensional and quantitative evidence to support action toward transformative change for sustainable soil management and soil biodiversity conservation.", "keywords": ["social-ecological system", "plural valuation", "soil policy", "Soil biodiversity", "human well-being", "actionable framework", "nature's contributions to people", "soil drivers/pressures", "soil/land management", "soil natural capital"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101391"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/One%20Earth", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101391", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101391", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101391"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ppees.2011.12.001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-12-23", "title": "Stability Of Above-Ground And Below-Ground Processes To Extreme Drought In Model Grassland Ecosystems: Interactions With Plant Species Diversity And Soil Nitrogen Availability", "description": "Extreme drought events have the potential to cause dramatic changes in ecosystem structure and function, but the controls upon ecosystem stability to drought remain poorly understood. Here we used model systems of two commonly occurring, temperate grassland communities to investigate the shortterm interactive effects of a simulated 100-year summer drought event, soil nitrogen (N) availability and plant species diversity (low/high) on key ecosystem processes related to carbon (C) and N cycling. Whole ecosystem CO2 fluxes and leaching losses were recorded during drought and post-rewetting. Litter decomposition and C/N stocks in vegetation, soil and soil microbes were assessed 4 weeks after the end of drought. Experimental drought caused strong reductions in ecosystem respiration and net ecosystem CO2 exchange, but ecosystem fluxes recovered rapidly following rewetting irrespective of N and species diversity. As expected, root C stocks and litter decomposition were adversely affected by drought across all N and plant diversity treatments. In contrast, drought increased soil water retention, organic nutrient leaching losses and soil fertility. Drought responses of above-ground vegetation C stocks varied depending on plant diversity, with greater stability of above-ground vegetation C to drought in the high versus low diversity treatment. This positive effect of high plant diversity on above-ground vegetation C stability coincided with a decrease in the stability of microbial biomass C. Unlike species diversity, soil N availability had limited effects on the stability of ecosystem processes to extreme drought. Overall, our findings indicate that extreme drought events promote post-drought soil nutrient retention and soil fertility, with cascading effects on ecosystem C fixation rates. Data on above-ground ecosystem processes underline the importance of species diversity for grassland function in a changing environment. Furthermore, our results suggest that plant\u2013soil interactions play a key role for the short-term stability of above-ground vegetation C storage to extreme drought events.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "changement climatique", "Plant-soil interactions", "fertilit\u00e9 des sols", "Biodiversit\u00e9 et Ecologie", "flux de co2", "interaction plante- sol", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil fertility", "\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me", "01 natural sciences", "changement climatique;flux de CO2;\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me;interaction plante- sol;fertilit\u00e9 des sols", "6. Clean water", "Biodiversity and Ecology", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "CO 2 fluxes", "13. 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These interactions provide numerous essential ecosystem services, and the sustainable management of soils has attracted increasing scientific and public attention. Although soil ecology emerged as an independent field of research many decades ago, and we have gained important insights into the functioning of soils, there still are fundamental aspects that need to be better understood to ensure that the ecosystem services that soils provide are not lost and that soils can be used in a sustainable way. In this perspectives paper, we highlight some of the major knowledge gaps that should be prioritized in soil ecological research. These research priorities were compiled based on an online survey of 32 editors of Pedobiologia - Journal of Soil Ecology. These editors work at universities and research centers in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.The questions were categorized into four themes: (1) soil biodiversity and biogeography, (2) interactions and the functioning of ecosystems, (3) global change and soil management, and (4) new directions. The respondents identified priorities that may be achievable in the near future, as well as several that are currently achievable but remain open. While some of the identified barriers to progress were technological in nature, many respondents cited a need for substantial leadership and goodwill among members of the soil ecology research community, including the need for multi-institutional partnerships, and had substantial concerns regarding the loss of taxonomic expertise.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "aboveground-belowground interactions", "Biologia", "Aboveground-belowground interactions", "910", "soil processes", "soil microbial ecology", "Microbial ecology", "Novel environments", "Soil food web", "11. Sustainability", "Climate change", "0503 Soil Sciences", "Global change", "biodiversity", "ecosystem management", "2. 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Climate action", "ilmastonmuutos", "novel environments", "ta1181", "soil management", "Plant-microbe interactions", "0703 Crop And Pasture Production"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://usiena-air.unisi.it/bitstream/11365/1134372/2/Eisenhauer_et_al_research_priorities_20170503.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2017.05.003"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Pedobiologia", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.pedobi.2017.05.003", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.pedobi.2017.05.003", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.pedobi.2017.05.003"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/cla.12208", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:18:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-06-14", "title": "Hidden biodiversity: total evidence phylogenetics and evolution of morphological traits in a highly diverse lineage of endogean ground beetles,TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 (Carabidae, Trechinae, Anillini)", "description": "Abstract

Typhlocharisis the most diverse eyeless endogean ground beetle genus known to date, with 62 species all endemic to the West Mediterranean region. The lineage is characterized by a conservative and singular body plan within Carabidae that contrasts with a high morphological diversity in many traits. We provide an exhaustive phylogeny of the lineage through the study of 92 morphological characters from all 62 described species and 45 potential new species from 70 additional populations, and the combination of morphological and available molecular data, in the first total evidence phylogenetic approach for a highly diverse endogean lineage. We tracked the evolution of morphological traits over the obtained phylogenies. Results suggest eight morphologically distinct clades, which do not correspond to the species groups proposed formerly. Ancestral state reconstructions and phylogenetic signal analyses of morphological traits revealed that some of the previously key characters to the classification ofTyphlocharis, such as the umbilicate series or the apical denticles of elytra, are highly homoplasic, whereas other characters show stronger phylogenetic signal, including structures in the antennae, gula, pronotum and last abdominal ventrite. This evidence supports the split ofTyphlocharisinto three genera:Lusotyphlusgen. nov.;TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 andMicrocharidiusCoiffait, 1969 (revalidated), forming the subtribe Typhlocharina Jeanne, 1973.