Identifying potential threats to soil biodiversity

The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

(2020) Angela M. Oliverio et al.   Science Advances

Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity

(2019) Erin K. Cameron et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Soil microplastics inhibit the movement of springtail species

(2019) Shin Woong Kim et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Ecological Processes Shaping Bulk Soil and Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly in a Long-Term Amazon Forest-to-Agriculture Conversion

(2019) Dennis Goss-Souza et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Long-term acidification of pH neutral grasslands affects soil biodiversity, fertility and function in a heathland restoration

(2019) Mark Tibbett et al.   CATENA

Responses of weed community, soil nutrients, and microbes to different weed management practices in a fallow field in Northern China

(2019) Xian Gu et al.   PeerJ

Challenges and Opportunities for Soil Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2019) Stefan Geisen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Soil fauna diversity increases CO 2 but suppresses N 2 O emissions from soil

(2019) Ingrid M. Lubbers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Harvest aids efficacy applied by unmanned aerial vehicles on cotton crop

(2019) Yanhua Meng et al.   INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

(2019) Helen R. P. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Trees in trimmed hedgerows but not tree health increase diversity of oribatid mite communities in intensively managed agricultural land

(2019) Florentine Spaans et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Rubber plantation ageing controls soil biodiversity after land conversion from cassava

(2018) Monrawee Peerawat et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plasticulture changes soil invertebrate assemblages of strawberry fields and decreases diversity and soil microbial activity

(2018) Jens Schirmel et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Microplastic and soil protists: A call for research

(2018) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Current research trends on plastic pollution and ecological impacts on the soil ecosystem: A review

(2018) Yooeun Chae et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems

(2018) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of climate change adaptation options on soil functions: A review of European case-studies

(2018) Ahmad Hamidov et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

(2018) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SCIENCE

Northward shift of the agricultural climate zone under 21st-century global climate change

(2018) Myron King et al.   Scientific Reports

Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

(2018) Stilianos Louca et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolutionary implications of microplastics for soil biota

(2018) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   Environmental Chemistry

A Red List of mites from the suborder Uropodina (Acari: Parasitiformes) in Poland

(2018) Agnieszka Napierała et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Effects of set-aside management on certain elements of soil biota and early stage organic matter decomposition in a High Nature Value Area, Hungary

(2018) Zsolt Tóth et al.   Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

Amazonian deforestation and soil biodiversity

(2018) André L.C. Franco et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Structural plasticity in root-fungal symbioses: diverse interactions lead to improved plant fitness

(2018) Khalil Kariman et al.   PeerJ

Transport of microplastics by two collembolan species

(2017) Stefanie Maaß et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Safety assessment of gasification biochars using Folsomia candida (Collembola) ecotoxicological bioassays

(2017) Federica D. Conti et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Quantifying and mapping threats to soil biodiversity in Nanjing, China

(2017) Baojie Li et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

(2017) Alexandre Jousset et al.   ISME Journal

Invasive earthworms erode soil biodiversity: A meta-analysis

(2017) Olga Ferlian et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Assessing soil biodiversity potentials in Europe

(2017) Ece Aksoy et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities

(2017) Alice A. Horton et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Metagenomic analysis exploring taxonomic and functional diversity of soil microbial communities in Chilean vineyards and surrounding native forests

(2017) Luis E. Castañeda et al.   PeerJ

Microplastic transport in soil by earthworms

(2017) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   Scientific Reports

Classification and valuation of soil ecosystem services

(2016) Jón Örvar G. Jónsson et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Litter decomposition, residue chemistry and microbial community structure under two subtropical forest plantations: A reciprocal litter transplant study

(2016) Zongming He et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Earthworm functional groups respond to the perennial energy cropping system of the cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum L.)

(2016) Quentin Schorpp et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Selecting cost effective and policy-relevant biological indicators for European monitoring of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function

(2016) B.S. Griffiths et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A Procedure for Measuring Microplastics using Pressurized Fluid Extraction

(2016) Stephen Fuller et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microplastics in the Terrestrial Ecosystem: Implications for Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae)

(2016) Esperanza Huerta Lwanga et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Linking soils to ecosystem services — A global review

(2016) Kabindra Adhikari et al.   GEODERMA

Pollution: Do microplastics spill on to farm soils?

(2016) Luca Nizzetto et al.   NATURE

A knowledge-based approach to estimating the magnitude and spatial patterns of potential threats to soil biodiversity

(2016) Alberto Orgiazzi et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The threat of soil salinity: A European scale review

(2016) I.N. Daliakopoulos et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plastic mulching in agriculture. Trading short-term agronomic benefits for long-term soil degradation?

(2016) Zacharias Steinmetz et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Understanding soil food web dynamics, how close do we get?

(2016) E. Morriën   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability

(2016) S. Franz Bender et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects

(2016) Karen Duis et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

Soil Biodiversity and the Environment

(2015) Uffe N. Nielsen et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Potential Health Impact of Environmentally Released Micro- and Nanoplastics in the Human Food Production Chain: Experiences from Nanotoxicology

(2015) Hans Bouwmeester et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Natural and anthropogenic alterations of the soil affect body condition of the fossorial amphisbaenian Trogonophis wiegamnni in North Africa

(2015) José Martín et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Decrease in diversity and changes in community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of apple trees with increasing orchard management intensity across a regional scale

(2015) Maarten van Geel et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The extent of functional redundancy changes as species’ roles shift in different environments

(2015) Ingo Fetzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Review Study on Past 40 Years of Research on Effects of Tropospheric O3 on Belowground Structure, Functioning, and Processes of Trees: a Linkage with Potential Ecological Implications

(2015) Eugenios Agathokleous et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Extinction risk of soil biota

(2015) Stavros D. Veresoglou et al.   Nature Communications

Microbiology of wind-eroded sediments: Current knowledge and future research directions

(2015) V. Acosta-Martínez et al.   Aeolian Research

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

Soil ecosystem services and land use in the rapidly changing Orinoco River Basin of Colombia

(2014) Patrick Lavelle et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Crop monoculture rather than agriculture reduces the spatial turnover of soil bacterial communities at a regional scale

(2014) Eva L. M. Figuerola et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Risks of large-scale use of systemic insecticides to ecosystem functioning and services

(2014) Madeleine Chagnon et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

(2014) Maria A. Tsiafouli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global-scale patterns of assemblage structure of soil nematodes in relation to climate and ecosystem properties

(2014) Uffe N. Nielsen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

(2014) C. Wagg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

A review of earthworm impact on soil function and ecosystem services

(2013) M. Blouin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

The dimensions of soil security

(2013) Alex McBratney et al.   GEODERMA

An estimate of potential threats levels to soil biodiversity in EU

(2013) Ciro Gardi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity of soil macrofauna in the New Forest: a benchmark study across a national park landscape

(2012) Daniel Carpenter et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Physicochemical and biological interfacial interactions: impacts on soil ecosystem and biodiversity

(2012) Pan Ming Huang et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

The Resilience and Resistance of an Ecosystem to a Collapse of Diversity

(2012) Andrea S. Downing et al.   PLoS One

Soil biodiversity, biological indicators and soil ecosystem services—an overview of European approaches

(2012) Mirjam Pulleman et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Soil millipede diversity in tropical forest patches and its relation to landscape structure in northeastern Puerto Rico

(2011) Ileana T. Galanes et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Acute and sublethal effects of sequential exposure to the pesticide azinphos-methyl on juvenile earthworms (Eisenia andrei)

(2011) Martine S. Jordaan et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Biochar effects on soil biota – A review

(2011) Johannes Lehmann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil beneficial bacteria and their role in plant growth promotion: a review

(2010) Rifat Hayat et al.   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2010) U. N. Nielsen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil

(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

The microbial community composition changes rapidly in the early stages of decomposition of wheat residue

(2010) Petra Marschner et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Life in soil by the actinorhizal root nodule endophyte Frankia. A review

(2010) Eugenia E. Chaia et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Soil biodiversity monitoring in Europe: ongoing activities and challenges

(2009) C. Gardi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

To sequence or not to sequence the whole-soil metagenome?

(2009) Philippe C. Baveye   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA