Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates
Soil fauna plays a key role in many soil functions, such as organic matter decomposition, humus formation, and nutrient release, modifying soil structure, and improving its fertility. Soil invertebrates play key roles in determining soil suitability for agricultural production and realizing sustaina...
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| description | Soil fauna plays a key role in many soil functions, such as organic matter decomposition, humus formation, and nutrient release, modifying soil structure, and improving its fertility. Soil invertebrates play key roles in determining soil suitability for agricultural production and realizing sustainable farming systems. They include an enormous diversity of arthropods, nematodes, and earthworms. However, this fauna suffers from the impact of agricultural activities with implications for the capacity of soil to maintain its fertility and provide ecosystem services. Some agricultural practices may create crucial soil habitat changes, with consequences for invertebrate biodiversity. In the few last decades, especially under intensive and specialized farming systems, a loss in soil ecosystem services has been observed, as a result of the reduction in both the abundance and taxonomic diversity of soil faunal communities. On the other hand, agricultural practices, based on sustainable soil management, can promote useful soil fauna. Therefore, the concerns about the sensibility of soil biota to the agricultural practices make it urgent to develop sustainable management strategies, able to realize favorable microclimate and habitats, and reduce the soil disturbance. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-682652024-03-28T03:30:33Z Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates Bocchi, Stefano Orlando, Francesca soil biota invertebrates farming systems bioenergy biodiversity wheat ecosystem axonchium helicotylenchus tylenchorhynchus pratylenchus reniform vertosol gossypium Gossypium Zea mays vertisol Lumbricidae Aporrectodea caliginosa Aporrectodea rosea phosphorus fertilizers phosphorus-solubilizing microorganisms renewable resources heavy metals Luvisols ground-dwelling arthropods pitfall traps cover crops ecosystem services natural enemies pear pests biological control soil organic matter soil pH post-harvest residues crop rotation Hordeum vulgare L. Vicia faba L. ssp. minor soil biodiversity vineyard co-occurrence patterns soil moisture soil temperature vineyard management traditional management sustainable agriculture management intensity South Tyrol mountain agriculture soil soil properties macrofauna earthworms sustainability soil invertebrates bioindicators soil quality mesofauna soil degradation land management thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general Soil fauna plays a key role in many soil functions, such as organic matter decomposition, humus formation, and nutrient release, modifying soil structure, and improving its fertility. Soil invertebrates play key roles in determining soil suitability for agricultural production and realizing sustainable farming systems. They include an enormous diversity of arthropods, nematodes, and earthworms. However, this fauna suffers from the impact of agricultural activities with implications for the capacity of soil to maintain its fertility and provide ecosystem services. Some agricultural practices may create crucial soil habitat changes, with consequences for invertebrate biodiversity. In the few last decades, especially under intensive and specialized farming systems, a loss in soil ecosystem services has been observed, as a result of the reduction in both the abundance and taxonomic diversity of soil faunal communities. On the other hand, agricultural practices, based on sustainable soil management, can promote useful soil fauna. Therefore, the concerns about the sensibility of soil biota to the agricultural practices make it urgent to develop sustainable management strategies, able to realize favorable microclimate and habitats, and reduce the soil disturbance. 2021-05-01T15:05:44Z 2021-05-01T15:05:44Z 2021 book ONIX_20210501_9783039437191_8 9783039437191 9783039437207 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68265 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3262 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3262 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03943-720-7 10.3390/books978-3-03943-720-7 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039437191 9783039437207 150 Basel, Switzerland open access |
| spellingShingle | soil biota invertebrates farming systems bioenergy biodiversity wheat ecosystem axonchium helicotylenchus tylenchorhynchus pratylenchus reniform vertosol gossypium Gossypium Zea mays vertisol Lumbricidae Aporrectodea caliginosa Aporrectodea rosea phosphorus fertilizers phosphorus-solubilizing microorganisms renewable resources heavy metals Luvisols ground-dwelling arthropods pitfall traps cover crops ecosystem services natural enemies pear pests biological control soil organic matter soil pH post-harvest residues crop rotation Hordeum vulgare L. Vicia faba L. ssp. minor soil biodiversity vineyard co-occurrence patterns soil moisture soil temperature vineyard management traditional management sustainable agriculture management intensity South Tyrol mountain agriculture soil soil properties macrofauna earthworms sustainability soil invertebrates bioindicators soil quality mesofauna soil degradation land management thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates |
| title | Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates |
| title_full | Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates |
| title_fullStr | Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates |
| title_short | Impact of Agricultural Practices on Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates |
| title_sort | impact of agricultural practices on biodiversity of soil invertebrates |
| topic | soil biota invertebrates farming systems bioenergy biodiversity wheat ecosystem axonchium helicotylenchus tylenchorhynchus pratylenchus reniform vertosol gossypium Gossypium Zea mays vertisol Lumbricidae Aporrectodea caliginosa Aporrectodea rosea phosphorus fertilizers phosphorus-solubilizing microorganisms renewable resources heavy metals Luvisols ground-dwelling arthropods pitfall traps cover crops ecosystem services natural enemies pear pests biological control soil organic matter soil pH post-harvest residues crop rotation Hordeum vulgare L. Vicia faba L. ssp. minor soil biodiversity vineyard co-occurrence patterns soil moisture soil temperature vineyard management traditional management sustainable agriculture management intensity South Tyrol mountain agriculture soil soil properties macrofauna earthworms sustainability soil invertebrates bioindicators soil quality mesofauna soil degradation land management thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general |
| topic_facet | soil biota invertebrates farming systems bioenergy biodiversity wheat ecosystem axonchium helicotylenchus tylenchorhynchus pratylenchus reniform vertosol gossypium Gossypium Zea mays vertisol Lumbricidae Aporrectodea caliginosa Aporrectodea rosea phosphorus fertilizers phosphorus-solubilizing microorganisms renewable resources heavy metals Luvisols ground-dwelling arthropods pitfall traps cover crops ecosystem services natural enemies pear pests biological control soil organic matter soil pH post-harvest residues crop rotation Hordeum vulgare L. Vicia faba L. ssp. minor soil biodiversity vineyard co-occurrence patterns soil moisture soil temperature vineyard management traditional management sustainable agriculture management intensity South Tyrol mountain agriculture soil soil properties macrofauna earthworms sustainability soil invertebrates bioindicators soil quality mesofauna soil degradation land management thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general |
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