Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity
Human activities are accelerating global biodiversity change and have resulted in severely threatened ecosystem services. A large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity is harbored by soil, but soil biodiversity has been omitted from many global biodiversity assessments and conservation actions, and...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/313248 2024-01-07T09:47:07+01:00 Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity Cameron, Erin K. Martins, Inês S. Lavelle, Patrick Mathieu, Jérôme Tedersoo, Leho Bahram, Mohammad Gottschall, Felix Guerra, Carlos A. Hines, Jes Patoine, Guillaume Siebert, Julia Winter, Marten Cesarz, Simone Ferlian, Olga Kreft, Holger Lovejoy, Thomas E. Montanarella, Luca Orgiazzi, Alberto Pereira, Henrique M. Phillips, Helen R. P. Settele, Josef Wall, Diana H. Eisenhauer, Nico Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2020-03-12T23:47:29Z 6 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/313248 eng eng John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (10.1111) 10.1111/cobi.13311 Cameron , E K , Martins , I S , Lavelle , P , Mathieu , J , Tedersoo , L , Bahram , M , Gottschall , F , Guerra , C A , Hines , J , Patoine , G , Siebert , J , Winter , M , Cesarz , S , Ferlian , O , Kreft , H , Lovejoy , T E , Montanarella , L , Orgiazzi , A , Pereira , H M , Phillips , H R P , Settele , J , Wall , D H & Eisenhauer , N 2019 , ' Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity ' , Conservation Biology , vol. 33 , no. 5 , pp. 1187-1192 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13311 RIS: urn:F6FFA1A02D6334E14F502A5E905E2A1B 49c9a2c8-279e-46d4-bf45-00f05c55b4c0 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/313248 000485281800020 unspecified openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess PATTERNS SOIL BIODIVERSITY aboveground-belowground bacteria fungi global patterns macrofauna mismatch policy soilbiodiversity 1181 Ecology evolutionary biology 1172 Environmental sciences Article acceptedVersion 2020 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:04:31Z Human activities are accelerating global biodiversity change and have resulted in severely threatened ecosystem services. A large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity is harbored by soil, but soil biodiversity has been omitted from many global biodiversity assessments and conservation actions, and understanding of global patterns of soil biodiversity remains limited. In particular, the extent to which hotspots and coldspots of aboveground and soil biodiversity overlap is not clear. We examined global patterns of these overlaps by mapping indices of aboveground (mammals, birds, amphibians, vascular plants) and soil (bacteria, fungi, macrofauna) biodiversity that we created using previously published data on species richness. Areas of mismatch between aboveground and soil biodiversity covered 27% of Earth's terrestrial surface. The temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome had the highest proportion of grid cells with high aboveground biodiversity but low soil biodiversity, whereas the boreal and tundra biomes had intermediate soil biodiversity but low aboveground biodiversity. While more data on soil biodiversity are needed, both to cover geographic gaps and to include additional taxa, our results suggest that protecting aboveground biodiversity may not sufficiently reduce threats to soil biodiversity. Given the functional importance of soil biodiversity and the role of soils in human well-being, soil biodiversity should be considered further in policy agendas and conservation actions by adapting management practices to sustain soil biodiversity and considering soil biodiversity when designing protected areas. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Conservation Biology 33 5 1187 1192 |
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PATTERNS SOIL BIODIVERSITY aboveground-belowground bacteria fungi global patterns macrofauna mismatch policy soilbiodiversity 1181 Ecology evolutionary biology 1172 Environmental sciences Cameron, Erin K. Martins, Inês S. Lavelle, Patrick Mathieu, Jérôme Tedersoo, Leho Bahram, Mohammad Gottschall, Felix Guerra, Carlos A. Hines, Jes Patoine, Guillaume Siebert, Julia Winter, Marten Cesarz, Simone Ferlian, Olga Kreft, Holger Lovejoy, Thomas E. Montanarella, Luca Orgiazzi, Alberto Pereira, Henrique M. Phillips, Helen R. P. Settele, Josef Wall, Diana H. Eisenhauer, Nico Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity |
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Human activities are accelerating global biodiversity change and have resulted in severely threatened ecosystem services. A large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity is harbored by soil, but soil biodiversity has been omitted from many global biodiversity assessments and conservation actions, and understanding of global patterns of soil biodiversity remains limited. In particular, the extent to which hotspots and coldspots of aboveground and soil biodiversity overlap is not clear. We examined global patterns of these overlaps by mapping indices of aboveground (mammals, birds, amphibians, vascular plants) and soil (bacteria, fungi, macrofauna) biodiversity that we created using previously published data on species richness. Areas of mismatch between aboveground and soil biodiversity covered 27% of Earth's terrestrial surface. The temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome had the highest proportion of grid cells with high aboveground biodiversity but low soil biodiversity, whereas the boreal and tundra biomes had intermediate soil biodiversity but low aboveground biodiversity. While more data on soil biodiversity are needed, both to cover geographic gaps and to include additional taxa, our results suggest that protecting aboveground biodiversity may not sufficiently reduce threats to soil biodiversity. Given the functional importance of soil biodiversity and the role of soils in human well-being, soil biodiversity should be considered further in policy agendas and conservation actions by adapting management practices to sustain soil biodiversity and considering soil biodiversity when designing protected areas. Peer reviewed |
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Cameron, Erin K. Martins, Inês S. Lavelle, Patrick Mathieu, Jérôme Tedersoo, Leho Bahram, Mohammad Gottschall, Felix Guerra, Carlos A. Hines, Jes Patoine, Guillaume Siebert, Julia Winter, Marten Cesarz, Simone Ferlian, Olga Kreft, Holger Lovejoy, Thomas E. Montanarella, Luca Orgiazzi, Alberto Pereira, Henrique M. Phillips, Helen R. P. Settele, Josef Wall, Diana H. Eisenhauer, Nico |
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Cameron, Erin K. Martins, Inês S. Lavelle, Patrick Mathieu, Jérôme Tedersoo, Leho Bahram, Mohammad Gottschall, Felix Guerra, Carlos A. Hines, Jes Patoine, Guillaume Siebert, Julia Winter, Marten Cesarz, Simone Ferlian, Olga Kreft, Holger Lovejoy, Thomas E. Montanarella, Luca Orgiazzi, Alberto Pereira, Henrique M. Phillips, Helen R. P. Settele, Josef Wall, Diana H. Eisenhauer, Nico |
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Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity |
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