Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

Autor: Franciska T. de Vries, Peter C. de Ruiter, Stefanos P. Sgardelis, Josef Stary, Václav Pižl, Wim H. van der Putten, Katarina Hedlund, Soren Christensen, Lia Hemerik, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Elisa Thébault, Helene Bracht Jørgensen, Volkmar Wolters, Stefan Hotes, Karoline Uteseny, Tina D’ Hertefeldt, Jan Frouz, Richard D. Bardgett, Simon R. Mortimer, Klaus Birkhofer, Mira Liiri, W. H. Gera Hol, Mark Brady, Maria A. Tsiafouli, Lisa Bjørnlund, Heikki Setälä
Přispěvatelé: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris (iEES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris (iEES Paris), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University [Flagstaff], Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester [Manchester], Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Department of Animal Ecology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), Philipps University of Marburg, Institute of Soil Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS), Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Reading (UOR), School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent [Canterbury], University of Vienna [Vienna], Terrestrial Ecology (TE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen = Justus Liebig University (JLU), Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Soil biodiversity
Soil biology
temporal variability
Biodiversity
food-web structure
Wiskundige en Statistische Methoden - Biometris
taxonomic distinctness
Ecosystem services
functional groups
7-year period
soil food web
Environmental Chemistry
Soil food web
Ecosystem
land-use intensity
Mathematical and Statistical Methods - Biometris
Laboratorium voor Nematologie
Soil Microbiology
General Environmental Science
2. Zero hunger
ecosystem
Global and Planetary Change
Ecology
Intensive farming
terrestrial ecosystems
Agriculture
15. Life on land
PE&RC
arthropod communities
taxonomic breadth
body mass
Europe
Geography
international
phylogenetic diversity
Species richness
Laboratory of Nematology
community structure
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
agricultural intensification
ecosystem services
management
Zdroj: Global Change Biology
Global Change Biology, Wiley, 2015, 21 (2), pp.973-985. ⟨10.1111/gcb.12752⟩
Global Change Biology, 21(2), 973-985
Global Change Biology, 21(2), 973-985. John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Global Change Biology, 2015, 21 (2), pp.973-985. ⟨10.1111/gcb.12752⟩
Global Change Biology 21 (2015) 2
ISSN: 1365-2486
1354-1013
Popis: Soil biodiversity plays a key role in regulating the processes that underpin the delivery of ecosystem goods and services in terrestrial ecosystems. Agricultural intensification is known to change the diversity of individual groups of soil biota, but less is known about how intensification affects biodiversity of the soil food web as a whole, and whether or not these effects may be generalized across regions. We examined biodiversity in soil food webs from grasslands, extensive and intensive rotations in four agricultural regions across Europe: in Sweden, the UK, the Czech Republic and Greece. Effects of land use intensity were quantified based on structure and diversity among functional groups in the soil food web, as well as on community-weighted mean body mass of soil fauna. We also elucidate land use intensity effects on diversity of taxonomic units within taxonomic groups of soil fauna. We found that between regions soil food web diversity measures were variable, but that increasing land use intensity caused highly consistent responses. In particular, land use intensification reduced the complexity in the soil food webs, as well as the community-weighted mean body mass of soil fauna. In all regions across Europe, species richness of earthworms, Collembolans and oribatid mites was negatively affected by increased land use intensity. The taxonomic distinctness, which is a measure of taxonomic relatedness of species in a community that is independent of species richness, was also reduced by land use intensification. We conclude that intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity, making soil food webs less diverse and composed of smaller bodied organisms. Land use intensification results in fewer functional groups of soil biota with fewer and taxonomically more closely related species. We discuss how these changes in soil biodiversity due to land use intensification may threaten the functioning of soil in agricultural production systems. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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