Selecting biological indicators for monitoring soils: A framework for balancing scientific and technical opinion to assist policy development

By Karl Ritz, H. Black, C. Campbell, J. Harris, C. Wood. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science

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Selection of biological indicators appropriate for European soil monitoring (2016, methodology): “…the usefulness of the indicators in describing changes in functionality of soil 252 experts were asked to review the influence values taken from Ritz et al. (2009) for the 253 following functions: (1) Food and fibre production [SFF]; (2) Environmental 254 interactions [SEI]; (3) Habitat for…”
Selecting cost effective and policy-relevant biological indicators for European monitoring of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function (2016, methodology): “We focused on functional genes for nitrogen cycling 465 because previous studies showed that they were good candidate bioindicators for soil monitoring 466 and are increasingly common in the scientific literature (Ritz et al. 2009, Wessén and Hallin, 2011; 467 Jones et al., 2014).”
Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground (2016, background): “The same year, Schlichting (1972) introduced the concept of multi-functionality of soils and described how the buffering capacity of soils in different respects is important to a multitude of organisms and to other parts of the landscape.”
Soil biodiversity, biological indicators and soil ecosystem services—an overview of European approaches (2012, background): “Selected indicators had to comply with requirements such as (i) pertinence to predefined soil functions, including agricultural production, environmental interactions and habitat support, (ii) applicability to the range of ecosystems under consideration, (iii) ability to discriminate between soil ty”
Soil carbon quality and nitrogen fertilization structure bacterial communities with predictable responses of major bacterial phyla (2014, background): “The prospect of using indicator organisms for soil status is tractable since they capture dynamic properties, and biological indicators have gained renewed interest (Pulleman et al., 2012; Ritz et al., 2009) not least because of the emerging European Soil Framework Directive.”
Microbial diversity and ecological networks as indicators of environmental quality (2017, unknown): “…1347, Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France 2 UMR 6249 Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement, CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UFR Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, 25000 Besançon, France degradation of pollutants (Ritz et al. 2009).”