Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity–function relationships

By Uffe N. Nielsen, E. Ayres, D. Wall, R. Bardgett. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Understanding and Enhancing Soil Biological Health: The Solution for Reversing Soil Degradation (2015, background): “In recent publications, biodiversity was also shown to influence global C [65] and greenhouse gas budgets [66], enhance water quality [67], moderate soil organic matter decomposition [68,69], regulate nutrient retention and availability [69], and determine the susceptibility of soil to invasion by a”
Litter manipulation and the soil arthropod community in a lowland tropical rainforest (2013, background): “They also play a key role in ecosystem carbon dynamics, with a positive relationship between species richness and rates of carbon cycling, which is of significance since approximately 80% of global terrestrial carbon is stored in soils (Nielsen et al., 2011).”
Biochar: Carbon Sequestration, Land Remediation, and Impacts on Soil Microbiology (2012, background): “A review by Nielsen et al. (2011) examined critically 26 published microbial ecology studies (reflecting 85 experimental observations) to highlight the importance of recognizing the diversity-function relationship within the context of soil biodiversity and carbon cycling.”
Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems (2013, background): “Although there is evidence from field studies that soil microbial communities are linked to ecosystem functioning (13, 14), most studies on relationships between soil fauna and ecosystem function have been done in controlled (microcosm) experiments (15).”
Biochar in bioenergy cropping systems: impacts on soil faunal communities and linked ecosystem processes (2013, background): “These higher trophic levels are integral to the function of soil food webs, which facilitate decomposition of organic matter and belowground nutrient cycling (Bardgett, 2005; Nielsen et al., 2011).”
Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses (2017, unknown): “There is less evidence of an increase of soil biodiversity 13 , and evidence of a relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is mixed, at best 2,14-16 .”
Microbial community composition affects soil organic carbon turnover in mineral soils (2017, background): “Positive and negative relationships between the degree of soil microbial diversity and C cycling have been reported (Nielsen et al. 2011).”
Soil biodiversity, biological indicators and soil ecosystem services—an overview of European approaches (2012, background): “This phenomenon is partly explained by the high level of functional redundancy within speciesrich soil communities [15].”
Potential Benefits and Risks for Soil Health Derived From the Use of Organic Amendments in Agriculture (2019, background): “This assumption can certainly be true for some natural soils, but may nonetheless fall short at low levels of soil biodiversity, as is the case for many agricultural soils [78], where increasing species diversity and a higher number of functional groups were reported to improve soil ecosystem functi”
An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability. (2016, background): “[36] reviewed studies investigating soil biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relations and found that, at low levels of soil biodiversity, additional species often improved ecosystem functioning, while at higher-diversity levels, effects of species richness on functioning were less frequent.”
Microbial diversity and ecological networks as indicators of environmental quality (2017, background): “Within the biological component, micro-organisms constitute a major part of the genetic patrimony, due to their ubiquity, abundance and their genetic and metabolic diversities, and are the principal actors in the biogeochemical processes (Fitter et al. 2005; Nielsen et al. 2011).”