Environmental perturbations such as agricultural intensification may alter soil biodiversity in
a manner that affects ecosystem functioning, but links are not well quantified. With this …

Abstract Agricultural land covers 5.1× 10 9 ha (ca. 50% of potentially suitable land area),
and agriculture has immense effects on soil formation and degradation. Although we have …

Oribatid mites, also called beetle or moss mites, include more than 10,000 named species
representing 172 families worldwide. This book provides an identification key to the 96 …

Intensified arable farming results in fewer functional groups of soil biota with decreased
biodiversity. Organic farming with slurry fertilization and long crop rotation cycles favors soil …

There is a need for a socioecological transition towards sustainable agri-food systems that
recover the organic functioning and the closure of socio-metabolic cycles at the lower …

Soil biota are a major component of agroecosystems, playing a decisive role in ecosystem
services with synergistic effects on crop production. The conservation of their diversity has …

Drivers of soil-dwelling microarthropods represent one of the most addressed topics in soil
ecology, and diverse results have been reported in the literature. In the present study, an …

Unsustainable soil management is one of the drivers of soil degradation, but impact
assessment requires the development of indicators. Oribatids might be considered as early …

In dryland Mediterranean semi‐arid areas, the use of slurries and no‐till are encouraged to
reduce costs. This paper evaluates the effect of such practices in terms of morphological …

In arid and semiarid environments, the sustainability of rehabilitation actions in degraded
areas is a matter of concern. It has not been extensively researched. In a Spanish coal …