Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

By F. T. Vries, Élisa Thébault, M. Liiri, Klaus Birkhofer, M. Tsiafouli, Lisa Bjørnlund, H. Jørgensen, Mark V. Brady, S. Christensen, P. C. Ruiter and 13 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Plant Science, Soil Science

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Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe (2015, methodology): “Additional details on climate, soil properties and management of sites are given in de Vries et al. (2013) (see Tables S4–S7).”
The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls (2017, background): “Many observational and experimental studies have shown that elevated CO2, elevated nitrogen deposition, and agricultural management affect the species composition and diversity of soil organisms (Wardle et al. 1995, Moore et al. 1996, Osler & Sommerkorn 2007, de Vries et al. 2013).”
Soil microbiomes with distinct assemblies through vertical soil profiles drive the cycling of multiple nutrients in reforested ecosystems (2018, background): “Moreover, these plant-associated microbes are capable of influencing many critical ecosystem functions, such as nutrient acquisition by plants and the cycling of resources between above- and belowground communities [33, 34].”
Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives (2016, background): “These food web models have suggested that the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem processes is affected by land use (de Vries et al., 2013).”
Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (2017, background): “Single species plantations result in reduced litter, or recalcitrant litter, followed by depletion of soil biodiversity and as a consequence less stored soil carbon (de Vries et al. 2013; Zhao et al. 2013; Aslam et al. 2015).”
An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability. (2016, background): “Evidence is increasing that, in addition to direct management effects, there are also indirect effects via soil biota providing crucial ecosystem functions [41,54] (Figure 1).”
Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality (2014, background): “These findings are in line with a recent large-scale correlative field study that indicates that soil food web properties are associated with ecosystem services across various European land use systems (13).”
Below‐ground connections underlying above‐ground food production: a framework for optimising ecological connections in the rhizosphere (2017, background): “In addition, the ratio between the bacterial and fungal energy channel has been correlated to the rates of soil C and N cycling processes (De Vries et al. 2013).”