作者
AH Fitter, CA Gilligan, K Hollingworth, A Kleczkowski, RM Twyman, JW Pitchford, Members of the Nerc Soil Biodiversity Programme
发表日期
2005/6
来源
Functional Ecology
卷号
19
期号
3
页码范围
369-377
出版商
Blackwell Science Ltd
简介
- 1Soils are one of the last great frontiers for biodiversity research and are home to an extraordinary range of microbial and animal groups. Biological activities in soils drive many of the key ecosystem processes that govern the global system, especially in the cycling of elements such as carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.
- 2We cannot currently make firm statements about the scale of biodiversity in soils, or about the roles played by soil organisms in the transformations of organic materials that underlie those cycles. The recent UK Soil Biodiversity Programme (SBP) has brought a unique concentration of researchers to bear on a single soil in Scotland, and has generated a large amount of data concerning biodiversity, carbon flux and resilience in the soil ecosystem.
- 3One of the key discoveries of the SBP was the extreme diversity of small organisms: researchers in the programme identified over 100 species of …
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