TY  - GEN
TI  - Sustainable and Resilient Agroecosystems Need Complexity of Soil Food Webs and Multivariate Soil Health Indicators
Y1  - 2025///
SP  - 1
UR  - https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/56922/
A1  - Michel, Jennifer
A1  - Balanzategui-Guijarro, Iñaki
A1  - Cao, Da
A1  - Hinsinger, Philippe
A1  - Le Gouis, Jacques
A1  - Moya-Laraño, Jordi
A1  - Sánchez-Moreno, Sara
A1  - Symanczik, Sarah
A1  - Vanderschuren, Hervé
A1  - Van Der Straeten, Dominique
A1  - Waibel, Matthias
A1  - Weinmann, Markus
A1  - Thonar, Cécile
A1  - Delaplace, Pierre
KW  - agroecosystem
KW  -  climate
KW  -  change
KW  -  ecosystem services
KW  -  food web
KW  -  network analysis
KW  -  resilience
KW  -  soil biodiversity
KW  -  sustainability
KW  -  symbiosis
KW  -  versatility
KW  -  Abacus
KW  -  FiBL10150
AV  - restricted
EP  - 13
N2  - We need to adapt crop species and agricultural practices to produce high quantities of quality food for a growing world population, while also reducing the negative impact of agriculture on the environment to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement. It is increasingly recognised that healthy soils are at the heart of this endeavour, sustaining global geochemical cycles and the productivity of most terrestrial ecosystems. This ability of soils to support essential ecosystem services like nutrient cycling arises from diverse communities of soil organisms. Many ecosystem services are a function of how these soil organisms interact with each other, with the aboveground plant species and with the physio-chemical soil matrix. Here, we argue that multiple ecosystem processes and climate change resilience rely on diverse plant and soil communities with complex interactions among various actors carrying out complementary functions, rather than on individual indicator species on their own. We highlight areas of research which could be expanded to advance our understanding from single-species studies to the functional complexity of soil food webs and its integration into land management strategies with the aim to improve the resilience and sustainability of essential terrestrial ecosystems and the services they provide to the human population.
ID  - orgprints56922
ER  -