Threats to soil biodiversity - global and regional trends

• Main Authors: Brown, George, Cooper, Miguel, Kobayashi, Mónica, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Domínguez, Anahí, Dias Turetta, Ana Paula, Franco, André, Zaitsev, Andrey, Winding, Anne, Foereid, Bente, Singh, Brajesh, Guerra, Carlos, Rojas, Claudia, Spurgeon, David, Aksoy, Ece, Moreira, Fátima Maria, Bautista, Francisco, Xu, Jianming, Rousk, Johannes, Bedano, José Camilo, Bagyaraj, Joseph D., Saxena, Krishna, da Silva, Laura Fernanda Simões, Tedersoo, Leho, Byrne, Loren, Callaham, Mac A., Choudhary, Madhu, Aller, M. Fernanda, Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel, García Orenes, Maria Fuensanta, Tsiafouli, Maria, de Graaf, Marie, Hart, Miranda, Thuita, Moses, Karanja, Nancy, Fromin, Nathalie, Eisenhauer, Nico, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Mele, Pauline, Pastor, Pilar Andres, Ochoa-Hueso, Raul, Kuperman, Roman, Ichami, Stephen, Fonte, Steven J., Santillan, Vinisa Saynes, Tapia Torres, Yunuen
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación
• Subjects: SOIL; BIODIVERSITY; THREATS TO SOIL BIODIVERSITY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Pacific; Mónica; taiga; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/147159

Using the information provided on the main threats in the ten ecoregions present in the six world regions (Table of threats for Sub-Saharan Africa, South West Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, North Africa and Near East, North America and Europe; FAOand ITPS, 2015), a summary table of the main threats common to these ecoregions was produced. This exercise showed that the most widespread threat to soil biodiversity in the world was the loss of SOM and SOC, and that this could be associated with other threats such as deforestation and agricultural intensification (both linked withland use change) and with climate change (particularly in tundra). This clearly shows the importance of sustainable management and conservation practices, to maintain this resource in soils, which represents one of the bases for the soils food webs. Deforestation and agricultural intensification were also major threats worldwide, being important intropical and temperate broad leaf and mixed forests and temperate and montane grassland sand boreal forests/taiga, although the level of available information on the topic was highly variable, depending on the particular world regions where these ecoregions occur. The ecoregions with the highest number of threats were the deserts and dry shrublands, the tropical and subtropical grasslands, and the temperate broad leaf and mixed forests. Invasive species also represented an important threat, particularly in Mediterranean and temperate forests and tundra. Fil: Brown, George. Ministerio da Agricultura Pecuaria e Abastecimento de Brasil; Brasil Fil: Cooper, Miguel. Universidade do Sao Paulo. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz; Brasil Fil: Kobayashi, Mónica. Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations; Italia Fil: Orgiazzi, Alberto. No especifíca; Fil: Domínguez, Anahí. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Fisicoquímicas y Naturales. Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra, Biodiversidad y Ambiente - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones ...