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State of knowledge of soil biodiversity: Status, challenges and potentialities

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The article was published on 2020-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil biodiversity.

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Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine how land-use change for biomass provision has decreased the ability of soils to regulate the carbon pool and thereby contribute profoundly to climate change, to cycle the nutrients that sustain plant growth and ecosystem health, to protect the soil biodiversity upon which many other functions depend, and to cycle Earth's freshwater supplies.
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Effects of plant species diversity on nematode community composition and diversity in a long-term biodiversity experiment.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that soil-borne pathogens accumulate in low-diversity communities over time is supported, while soil mutualists (bacterial-feeding, omnivorous, predatory nematodes) increase in abundance and richness in high-d diversity plant communities, which may contribute to the widely-observed positive plant diversity–productivity relationship.
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Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi

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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the distribution patterns and conservation needs of fungi and found that the endemicity of all fungi and most functional groups peaks in tropical habitats, including Amazonia, Yucatan, West Central Africa, Sri Lanka, and New Caledonia, with a negligible island effect compared with plants and animals.
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Soil under stress: The importance of soil life and how it is influenced by (micro)plastic pollution

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors make predictions based on the observed effects of (micro)plastics and the potential impact on the plant-soil microbiome system, and use prior knowledge of other disturbances (e.g., tillage and pesticides) which have been studied for many years in relation to the soil microbial community.