ArticleeLife2020
Climate change and intensive land use reduce soil animal biomass via dissimilar pathways.
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- Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Soil microbial communities are more disrupted by extreme drought than by gradual climate shifts under different land-use intensities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Land-use change shifts and magnifies seasonal variations of the decomposer system in lowland tropical landscapes.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Does Intensive Land Use Contribute to Energy Efficiency?-Evidence Based on a Spatial Durbin Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Can artificial ecological corridors be used for ecological restoration of cultivated land in Chinese Mollisols?Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Direct and indirect effects of land-use intensity on plant communities across elevation in semi-natural grasslands.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Global change drivers, such as climate change and land use, may profoundly influence body size, density, and biomass of soil organisms. However, it is still unclear how these concurrent drivers interact in affecting ecological communities. Here, we present the results of an experimental field study assessing the interactive effects of climate change and land-use intensification on body size, density, and biomass of soil microarthropods. We found that the projected climate change and intensive land use decreased their total biomass. Strikingly, this reduction was realized via two dissimilar pathways: climate change reduced mean body size and intensive land use decreased density. These findings highlight that two of the most pervasive global change drivers operate via different pathways when decreasing soil animal biomass. These shifts in soil communities may threaten essential ecosystem functions like organic matter turnover and nutrient cycling in future ecosystems.
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