Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

By M. Tsiafouli, Élisa Thébault, S. Sgardelis, P. C. Ruiter, W. H. van der Putten, Klaus Birkhofer, Lia Hemerik, F. T. Vries, R. Bardgett, Mark V. Brady and 16 more. Global Change Biology, 2015

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

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Selecting cost effective and policy-relevant biological indicators for European monitoring of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function (2016, background): “Increasing agricultural intensity, 41 for example, has been shown to generally reduce soil biodiversity (e.g., Tsiafouli et al., 2015), 42 although this response is likely to be non-linear given the variation in management practices and soil 43 conditions across sites and regions, and differences…”
Probiotic Pseudomonas communities enhance plant growth and nutrient assimilation via diversity-mediated ecosystem functioning (2017, neutral): “Unfortunately, current intensive agricultural practices that depend on high inputs of chemical fertilizers and pesticides are often detrimental to the plant-associated bene ﬁ cial rhizosphere bacteria and microbial ecosystem functioning (Tsiafouli et al., 2015).”
Diversity and trait composition of moths respond to land-use intensification in grasslands: generalists replace specialists (2017, background): “So far, only few studies related community composition and life-history trait variation with the type and intensity of land use (Birkhofer et al. 2015a; Bommarco et al. 2014; Gossner et al. 2014; Tsiafouli et al. 2015).”
Deciphering the associations between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality driven by long‐term fertilization management (2018, background): “However, agricultural soils usually have a lower level of soil biodiversity compared to natural ecosystems (Tsiafouli et al., 2015; Tuck et al., 2014), suggesting a lack of multifunctional redundancy in these soils.”
The science of Soil Security and Food Security (2020, background): “The consequence in some areas as been the decline in the soils condition (strong interaction, Table 1 ), ncluding loss of soil structure, erosion, nutrient depletion and loss of iodiversity in the soil ( Tsiafouli et al., 2015 ).”
An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability. (2016, background): “Generally, intensive agricultural practices are considered to lead to simpler soil food webs comprising smaller-bodied organisms and fewer functional groups [3].”
The effect of microbial inoculant origin on the rhizosphere bacterial community composition and plant growth-promotion (2020, background): “Such soils often suffer from reduced microbial diversity, making them feasible targets for microbiome restoration using microbial inoculants (Moeskops et al. 2010; Tsiafouli et al. 2015).”
Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils (2020, background): “Farming systems are reported to usually have a lower level of biodiversity compared to less intensively used or natural ecosystems (Tuck et al., 2014; Tsiafouli et al., 2015).”
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”
Soil-Related Sustainable Development Goals: Four Concepts to Make Land Degradation Neutrality and Restoration Work (2018, background): “The diversity of soil organisms is crucial to many functional aspects of soils such as soil structure and water regulation, and nutrient cycling (there is less need for artificial nitrogen fertilizer), but especially also to the C-dynamics of soils [29,31].”