SynthesisBMC ecology2013
Land-use and land-management change: relationships with earthworm and fungi communities and soil structural properties.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of multiple agricultural land uses in sustaining earthworm communities in agroecosystems - A global meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Earthworms increase plant production: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2014Pooled it
- Glomalin and soil health: current understanding, ecological functions, and research frontiers.Biologia futura · 2026Review
- Land-Use Shapes Soil Fungal Communities and Functional Guilds in Tropical Forest Ecosystems.Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
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- Uncovering the Role of Land Use Intensity in Shaping Forest and Grassland-Specific Soil Fungal Communities.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Shifts in fungal community diversity and potential function under natural forest succession and planted forest restoration in the Kunyu Mountains, East China.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Divergent assembly of soil microbial necromass from microbial and organic fertilizers inFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Earthworms as catalysts in the formation and stabilization of soil microbial necromass.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Nanoplastic Transport in Soil via Bioturbation byEnvironmental science & technology · 2021Article
- Effect of land use on cultivable bioaerosols in the indoor air of hospital in southeast Iran and its determination of the affected radius around of hospital.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Earthworm distributions are not driven by measurable soil properties. Do they really indicate soil quality?PloS one · 2021Article
- Key principles and operational practices for improved nanotechnology environmental exposure assessment.Nature nanotechnology · 2020Review
- Global distribution of earthworm diversity.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community differences among European long-term observatories.Mycorrhiza · 2017Article
- Reduced greenhouse gas mitigation potential of no-tillage soils through earthworm activity.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Unique metabolites protect earthworms against plant polyphenols.Nature communications · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundChange in land use and management can impact massively on soil ecosystems. Ecosystem engineers and other functional biodiversity in soils can be influenced directly by such change and this in turn can affect key soil functions. Here, we employ meta-analysis to provide a quantitative assessment of the effects of changes in land use and land management across a range of successional/extensification transitions (conventional arable → no or reduced tillage → grassland → wooded land) on community metrics for two functionally important soil taxa, earthworms and fungi. An analysis of the relationships between community change and soil structural properties was also included.
resultsMeta-analysis highlighted a consistent trend of increased earthworm and fungal community abundances and complexity following transitions to lower intensity and later successional land uses. The greatest changes were seen for early stage transitions, such as introduction of reduced tillage regimes and conversion to grassland from arable land. Not all changes, however, result in positive effects on the assessed community metrics. For example, whether woodland conversion positively or negatively affects community size and complexity depends on woodland type and, potentially, the changes in soil properties, such as pH, that may occur during conversion. Alterations in soil communities tended to facilitate subsequent changes in soil structure and hydrology. For example, increasing earthworm abundances and functional group composition were shown to be positively correlated with water infiltration rate (dependent on tillage regime and habitat characteristics); while positive changes in fungal biomass measures were positively associated with soil microaggregate stability.
conclusionsThese findings raise the potential to manage landscapes to increase ecosystem service provision from soil biota in relation to regulation of soil structure and water flow.
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