Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages

Victoria J. Burton; Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Samantha L.L. Hill; Harald Albrecht; James S. Bone; Daniel Carpenter; Ronald Corstanje; Pallieter De Smedt; Mark Farrell; Helen V. Ford; Lawrence N. Hudson; Kelly Inward; David T. Jones; Agnieszka Kosewska; Nancy F. Lo-Man-Hung; Tibor Magura; Christian Mulder; Maka Murvanidze; Tim Newbold; Jo Smith; Andrew V. Suarez; Sasha Suryometaram; Béla Tóthmérész; Marcio Uehara-Prado; Adam J. Vanbergen; Kris Verheyen; Karen Wuyts; Jörn P.W. Scharlemann; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis

doi:10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4

Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages

Victoria J. Burton, Sara Contu, Adriana De Palma, Samantha L.L. Hill, Harald Albrecht, James S. Bone, Daniel Carpenter, Ronald Corstanje, Pallieter De Smedt, Mark Farrell, Helen V. Ford, Lawrence N. Hudson, Kelly Inward, David T. Jones, Agnieszka Kosewska, Nancy F. Lo-Man-Hung, Tibor Magura, Christian Mulder, Maka Murvanidze, Tim NewboldJo Smith, Andrew V. Suarez, Sasha Suryometaram, Béla Tóthmérész, Marcio Uehara-Prado, Adam J. Vanbergen, Kris Verheyen, Karen Wuyts, Jörn P.W. Scharlemann, Paul Eggleton, Andy Purvis

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Background: Land-use is a major driver of changes in biodiversity worldwide, but studies have overwhelmingly focused on above-ground taxa: the effects on soil biodiversity are less well known, despite the importance of soil organisms in ecosystem functioning. We modelled data from a global biodiversity database to compare how the abundance of soil-dwelling and above-ground organisms responded to land use and soil properties. Results: We found that land use affects overall abundance differently in soil and above-ground assemblages. The abundance of soil organisms was markedly lower in cropland and plantation habitats than in primary vegetation and pasture. Soil properties influenced the abundance of soil biota in ways that differed among land uses, suggesting they shape both abundance and its response to land use. Conclusions: Our results caution against assuming models or indicators derived from above-ground data can apply to soil assemblages and highlight the potential value of incorporating soil properties into biodiversity models.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	135
Journal	BMC Ecology and Evolution
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4
State	Published - Dec 2022

Keywords

Land-use
Land-use intensity
Mixed-effects models
Organism abundance
Soil biodiversity
Soil biota

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General Environmental Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Burton, V. J., Contu, S., De Palma, A., Hill, S. L. L., Albrecht, H., Bone, J. S., Carpenter, D., Corstanje, R., De Smedt, P., Farrell, M., Ford, H. V., Hudson, L. N., Inward, K., Jones, D. T., Kosewska, A., Lo-Man-Hung, N. F., Magura, T., Mulder, C., Murvanidze, M., ... Purvis, A. (2022). Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22(1), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4

Burton, VJ, Contu, S, De Palma, A, Hill, SLL, Albrecht, H, Bone, JS, Carpenter, D, Corstanje, R, De Smedt, P, Farrell, M, Ford, HV, Hudson, LN, Inward, K, Jones, DT, Kosewska, A, Lo-Man-Hung, NF, Magura, T, Mulder, C, Murvanidze, M, Newbold, T, Smith, J, Suarez, AV, Suryometaram, S, Tóthmérész, B, Uehara-Prado, M, Vanbergen, AJ, Verheyen, K, Wuyts, K, Scharlemann, JPW, Eggleton, P & Purvis, A 2022, 'Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages', BMC Ecology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 1, 135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4

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