Global changes and their environmental stressors have a significant impact on soil biodiversity—A meta-analysis
Phillips, Helen RP Cameron, Erin K Eisenhauer, Nico Ferlian, Olga Jin, Yiming Kanabar, Sahana Malladi, Sandhya Murphy, Rowan E Peter, Anne
Phillips, Helen RP
Cameron, Erin K
Eisenhauer, Nico
Ferlian, Olga
Jin, Yiming
Kanabar, Sahana
Malladi, Sandhya
Murphy, Rowan E
Peter, Anne
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Identifying the main threats to soil biodiversity is crucial as soils harbor ∼60% of global biodiversity. Many previous meta-analyses investigating the impact of different global changes (GCs) on biodiversity have omitted soil fauna or are limited by the GCs studied. We conducted a broad-scale meta-analysis focused on soil fauna communities, analyzing 3,161 effect sizes from 624 publications studying climate change, land-use intensification, pollution, nutrient enrichment, invasive species and habitat fragmentation. Land-use intensification resulted in large reductions in soil fauna communities, especially for the larger-bodied groups. Unexpectedly, pollution caused the largest negative impact on soil biodiversity - particularly worrying due to continually increasing levels of pollution and poor mechanistic understanding of impacts relative to other GCs. Not all GCs and stressors were detrimental; organic-based nutrient enrichment often resulted in positive responses. Including soil biodiversity in large-scale analyses is vital to fully understand the impact of GCs across the different realms.
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Helen R.P. Phillips, Erin K. Cameron, Nico Eisenhauer, Victoria J. Burton, Olga Ferlian, Yiming Jin, Sahana Kanabar, Sandhya Malladi, Rowan E. Murphy, Anne Peter, Isis Petrocelli, Christian Ristok, Katharine Tyndall, Wim van der Putten, Léa Beaumelle, Global changes and their environmental stressors have a significant impact on soil biodiversity—A meta-analysis, iScience, Volume 27, Issue 9, 2024, 110540, ISSN 2589-0042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110540.
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Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The linked file is the published version of the article.
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