Cover Cropping Impacts Soil Microbial Communities and Functions in Mango Orchards by Zhiyuan Wei, Quanchao Zeng, Wenfeng Tan

“…Our results indicate that cover cropping affects mango fruit yields and quality via alterations in soil fungal diversity, which bridges a critical gap in our understanding of the linkages between soil biodiversity and fruit quality in response to cover cropping in orchard ecosystems.…”
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Conservation Agriculture as a Potential Strategy to Increase Soil Quality in Colombian Agroecosystems by Valentina Ardila-Garcia, Victoria Eugenia Vallejo, Leidy Paola Plazas-Navarro

“… Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been promoted in many Latin American countries as an alternative to sustainable production management because of its ability to prevent soil degradation, enhance crop productivity, minimize climate change impact, and protect soil biodiversity. The main objective of this paper was to evaluate the effects of CA on Soil Quality (SQ) in five agroecosystems from Cachipay (Cundinamarca): Coffee Crop (CC) chronosequences of (1) 5 (CC5) and (2) 10 (CC10) years of establishment; Polyculture Cropping System (PCS) chronosequences of (3) 1 (PCS1) and (4) 6 (PCS6) years, and (5) Fallow (F) systems. …”
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Assessing the effectiveness of cover crops on ecosystem services: a review of the benefits, challenges, and trade-offs by Maryam Yousefi, Anne Dray, Jaboury Ghazoul

“…Our findings highlight that compared to monocropping, in general, cover cropping enhances soil biodiversity and nutrient cycling, prevents runoff and Nitrogen leaching, improves soil physical properties and carbon sequestration over the long term, and suppresses pests and weeds. …”
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Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Conservation by Mirko Castellini, Mariangela Diacono, Concetta Eliana Gattullo, Anna Maria Stellacci

“…A number of processes causing soil degradation, specifically erosion, compaction, salinization, pollution, and loss of both organic matter and soil biodiversity, are also strictly connected to agricultural activity and its intensification. …”
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Manejo integrado de nematóides na cultura da bananeira Integrated management of nematodes in the banana tree culture by Cecília Helena Silvino Prata Ritzinger, Marilene Fancelli

“…In this context, the use of organic amendments for soil management is one of the strategies that brings the most benefits to soil biodiversity and conservation. This practice is known since the beginning of the civilization. …”
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Temporal and spatial dynamics in soil acoustics and their relation to soil animal diversity. by Marcus Maeder, Xianda Guo, Felix Neff, Doris Schneider Mathis, Martin M Gossner

“…This opens up the possibility of using soil soundscape analysis as a noninvasive and easy-to-use method for soil biodiversity monitoring programs.…”
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DNA Metabarcoding for the Characterization of Terrestrial Microbiota—Pitfalls and Solutions by Davide Francioli, Guillaume Lentendu, Simon Lewin, Steffen Kolb

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Phagotrophic Protists and Their Associates: Evidence for Preferential Grazing in an Abiotically Driven Soil Ecosystem by Andrew R. Thompson, Andrea J. Roth-Monzón, Zachary T. Aanderud, Byron J. Adams

“…These species-dependent interactions are contextualized by adjacent biotic and abiotic processes, and thus obfuscated by typically high soil biodiversity. Such questions may be investigated in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) of Antarctica because the physical environment strongly filters biodiversity and simplifies the influence of abiotic factors. …”
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A Review of Prospective Biocontrol Agents and Sustainable Soil Practices for Bulb Mite (Acari: Acaridae) Management by Eric Palevsky, Jana Konopická, Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Rostislav Zemek

“…For the rehabilitation and conservation of soil biodiversity supporting these ecosystem services, emphasis must be placed on sustainable soil management (e.g., ensuring green coverage, minimal soil disturbance and high content of organic matter).…”
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Restoration of soils contaminated with PAHs by the mixture of zeolite composites mixed with exogenous organic matter and mineral salts by Justyna Szerement, Adam Kowalski, Jakub Mokrzycki, Lidia Marcińska-Mazur, Monika Mierzwa-Hersztek

“…Abstract The major cause of soil degradation (contamination, erosion, compaction) is closely linked to agriculture, i.e., unsustainable agriculture practices, which are reflected in the depletion of the soil organic carbon pool, loss in soil biodiversity, and reduction of C sink capacity in soils. …”
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Microbial Community in the Composting Process and Its Positive Impact on the Soil Biota in Sustainable Agriculture by Ana Aguilar-Paredes, Gabriela Valdés, Nicole Araneda, Emky Valdebenito, Felipe Hansen, Marco Nuti

“…An ancient technique that favors soil biodiversity is the production and application of compost. …”
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Conservation Agriculture as a Sustainable System for Soil Health: A Review by Belén Cárceles Rodríguez, Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo, Miguel Soriano Rodríguez, Iván F. García-Tejero, Baltasar Gálvez Ruiz, Simón Cuadros Tavira

“…Conventional agricultural practices cause deterioration in soil quality, increasing its compaction, water erosion, and salinization and decreasing soil organic matter, nutrient content, and soil biodiversity, which negatively influences the productivity and long-term sustainability of the soil. …”
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Soil Mycobiome Diversity under Different Tillage Practices in the South of West Siberia by Natalia Naumova, Pavel Barsukov, Olga Baturina, Olga Rusalimova, Marsel Kabilov

“…Managing soil biodiversity by reduced or no tillage is an increasingly popular approach. …”
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West-Siberian Chernozem: How Vegetation and Tillage Shape Its Bacteriobiome by Natalia Naumova, Pavel Barsukov, Olga Baturina, Olga Rusalimova, Marsel Kabilov

“…Managing soil biodiversity using reduced tillage is a popular approach, yet soil bacteriobiomes in the agroecosystems of Siberia has been scarcely studied, especially as they are related to tillage. …”
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Effects of Land-Use Change on Soil Functionality and Biodiversity: Toward Sustainable Planning of New Vineyards by Elena Gagnarli, Giuseppe Valboa, Nadia Vignozzi, Donatella Goggioli, Silvia Guidi, Franca Tarchi, Lorenzo Corino, Sauro Simoni

“…Sustainable agriculture largely depends on soil biodiversity and requires efficient methods to assess the effectiveness of agronomic planning. …”
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Mountain Watch: How LT(S)ER Is Safeguarding Southern Africa’s People and Biodiversity for a Sustainable Mountain Future by Clinton Carbutt, Dave I. Thompson

“…The current rollout of the Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON) and the Southern African chapters of international programmes such as the Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA), RangeX, and the Global Soil Biodiversity Observation Network (Soil BON), as well as the expansion of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN), is ushering in a renaissance period of global change research in the region, which takes greater cognisance of its social context. …”
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Conservation Agriculture as a System to Enhance Ecosystem Services by Somasundaram Jayaraman, Yash P. Dang, Anandkumar Naorem, Kathryn L. Page, Ram C. Dalal

“…Therefore, compared to the conventional intensive tillage, CA has a greater potential for soil C sequestration, favors higher soil biodiversity, lowers greenhouse gas emission, and can assist in mitigating climate change. …”
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The Method of Microbiological Soil Investigations within the Framework of the Project “Microbiome of Russia” by T. I. Chernov, V. A. Kholodov, B. M. Kogut, A. L. Ivanov

“…The comparative analysis of microbial diversity of disturbed and undisturbed soils and the assessment of outer impact on the soil microbiome is necessary for the preservation of soil biodiversity as one of the most valuable ecologic and biotechnologic resource.…”
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Pesticide mixtures in soil: a global outlook by Fiona H M Tang, Federico Maggi

“…The co-existence of multiple pesticides in soil can threaten the soil biodiversity that maintains ecosystem services, hence further posing a long-term risk on food security. …”
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Positive effects of alternative cropping systems on terrestrial Oligochaeta (Clitellata, Annelida) by Francesca Ricci, Laure Bentze, David Montagne, Sabine Houot, Celine Pelosi

“… Agricultural intensification has reduced soil biodiversity in cultivated fields. Alternative cropping systems have been implemented to limit the harmful environmental effects of intensive conventional systems. …”
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