Title
Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages
Author(s)
Burton, Victoria J.; Contu, Sara; De Palma, Adriana; Hill, Samantha L. L.; Albrecht, Harald; Bone, James S.; Carpenter, Daniel; Corstanje, Ronald; De Smedt, Pallieter; Farrell, Mark; Ford, Helen V.; Hudson, Lawrence N.; Inward, Kelly; Jones, David T.; Kosewska, Agnieszka; Lo-Man-Hung, Nancy F.; Magura, Tibor; Mulder, Christian; Murvanidze, Maka; Newbold, Tim; Smith, Jo; Suarez, Andrew V.; Suryometaram, Sasha; Tóthmérész, Béla; Uehara-Prado, Marcio; Vanbergen, Adam J.; Verheyen, Kris; Wuyts, Karen; Scharlemann, Jörn P. W.; Eggleton, Paul; Purvis, Andy
Published
2022
Publisher
BMC Ecology and Evolution
Abstract
Land-use is a major driver of changes in biodiversity worldwide, but studies have overwhelmingly focused on above-ground taxa: the effects on soil biodiversity are less well known, despite the importance of soil organisms in ecosystem functioning. We modelled data from a global biodiversity database to compare how the abundance of soil-dwelling and above-ground organisms responded to land use and soil properties.
Keywords
Land-use; Land-use intensity; Soil biota; Soil biodiversity; Organism abundance; Mixed-effects models
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