Conceptualizing soil fauna effects on labile and stabilized soil organic matter

G Angst, A Potapov, FX Joly, Š Angst, J Frouz… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Fauna is highly abundant and diverse in soils worldwide, but surprisingly little is known
about how it affects soil organic matter stabilization. Here, we review how the ecological …

Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: Intensive land use outweighs climate change

R Yin, P Kardol, MP Thakur, I Gruss, GL Wu… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change and land use intensification are the two most common global change
drivers of biodiversity loss. Like other organisms, the soil meso-fauna are expected to modify …

Low‐intensity land‐use enhances soil microbial activity, biomass and fungal‐to‐bacterial ratio in current and future climates

M Sünnemann, C Alt, JE Kostin… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Progressing climate change and intensified land‐use exert unprecedented pressures on soil
microbial communities, thus endangering the essential ecosystem functions they provide …

Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems

S Meyer, D Kundel, K Birkhofer… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In Central Europe, summer droughts are increasing in frequency which threatens
production and biodiversity in agroecosystems. The potential of different farming systems to …

Grassland management effects on earthworm communities under ambient and future climatic conditions

J Singh, E Cameron, T Reitz, M Schädler… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of climate change on biodiversity can be modulated by other changing
environmental conditions (eg induced by land‐use change). The potential interactive effects …

[HTML][HTML] How will climate change affect the feeding biology of Collembola?

SKD Sanders, G Martínez-De León, L Formenti… - Soil Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Collembolans are one of the most diverse and abundant group of soil invertebrates. Recent
studies have shown anthropogenic climate warming to alter Collembola diversity and …

Climate change and intensive land use reduce soil animal biomass via dissimilar pathways

R Yin, J Siebert, N Eisenhauer, M Schädler - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities

MP Thakur, BD Sigurðsson, P Sigurðsson… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate warming is often more detrimental to large body sized organisms than small body
sized organisms. Yet, how such differential effects of warming at organismal levels affect …

Combined effects of land-use type and climate change on soil microbial activity and invertebrate decomposer activity

M Sünnemann, J Siebert, T Reitz, M Schädler… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Land-use and climate change are two of the key forces driving soil organisms' activity and
thus the ecosystem functions they provide. However, potential interactive effects of climate …

[HTML][HTML] Grasslands support more diverse and resilient earthworm communities to climate change than croplands in Central Europe

Q Liu, N Eisenhauer, S Scheu, T Reitz… - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2025 - Elsevier
Diversity and community composition of earthworms, key drivers of ecosystem functions, are
increasingly threatened by global change, including climate and land-use change. However …