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Belowground biodiversity relates positively to ecosystem services of European forests
Bakker, Mark R.; Brunner, Ivano; Ashwood, Francis et al.
2019In Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2, p. 6
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Copyright © 2019 Bakker, Brunner, Ashwood, Bjarnadottir, Bolger, Børja, Carnol, Cudlin, Dalsgaard, Erktan, Godbold, Kraigher, Meier, Merino-Martín, Motiejūnaitė, Mrak, Oddsdóttir, Ostonen, Pennanen, Püttsepp, Suz, Vanguelova, Vesterdal and Soudzilovskaia. Bakker MR, Brunner I, Ashwood F, Bjarnadottir B, Bolger T, Børja I, Carnol M, Cudlin P, Dalsgaard L, Erktan A, Godbold D, Kraigher H, Meier IC, Merino-Martín L, Motiejūnaitė. J, Mrak T, Oddsdóttir ES, Ostonen I, Pennanen TL, Püttsepp Ü, Suz LM, Vanguelova EI, Vesterdal L and Soudzilovskaia NA (2019) Belowground Biodiversity Relates Positively to Ecosystem Services of European Forests. Front. For. Glob. Change 2:6. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00006


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Keywords :
Cultural services; Provisioning service; Regulating services; Supporting services; Belowground biodiversity; European forests
Abstract :
[en] Biodiversity of ecosystems is an important driver for the supply of ecosystem services to people. Soils often have a larger biodiversity per unit surface area than what can be observed aboveground. Here, we present what is to our knowledge, the most extensive literature-based key-word assessment of the existing information about the relationships between belowground biodiversity and ecosystem services in European forests. The belowground diversity of plant roots, fungi, prokaryota, soil fauna and protists was evaluated in relation to the supply of Provisioning, Regulating, Cultural and upporting Services. The soil biota were divided into 14 subgroups and the ecosystem services into 37 separate services. Out of the 518 possible combinations of biotic groups and ecosystem services, no published study was found for 374 combinations (72%). Of the remaining 144 combinations (28%) where relationships were found, the large majority (87%) showed a positive relationship between biodiversity of a belowground biotic group and an associated ecosystem service. However, for the majority of the combinations (102) there were only three or fewer studies. The percentage of cases for which a relationship was detected varied strongly between ecosystem service categories with 23% for Provisioning, 8% for Regulating, 40% for Cultural and 48% for Supporting Services. We conclude that (1) soil biodiversity is generally positively related to ecosystem services in European forests; (2) the links between soil biodiversity and Cultural or Supporting services are better documented than those relating to Provisioning and Regulating services; (3) there is a huge knowledge gap for most possible combinations of soil biota and ecosystem services regarding how a more biodiverse soil biota is associated with a given ecosystem service.Given the drastically increasing societal demand for knowledge of the role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems and the supply of ecosystem services, we strongly encourage the scientific community to conductwell-designed studies incorporating the belowground diversity and the functions and services associated with this diversity.
Disciplines :
Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...)
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Bakker, Mark R.
Brunner, Ivano
Ashwood, Francis
Bjarnadottir, Brynhildur
Bolger, Tom
Børja, Isabella
Carnol, Monique  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Ecologie végétale et microbienne
Cudlin, Pavel
Dalsgaard, Lise
Erktan, Amandine
Godbold, Douglas
Kraigher, Hojka
Meier, Ina C.
Merino-Martín, Luis
Motiejūnaitė, Jurga
Mrak, Tanja
Oddsdottir, Edda S.
Ostonen, Ivika
Pennanen, Taina L.
Püttsepp, Ülle
Suz, Laura M.
Vanguelova, Elena I.
Vesterdal, Lars
Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.
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Language :
English
Title :
Belowground biodiversity relates positively to ecosystem services of European forests
Publication date :
19 March 2019
Journal title :
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
eISSN :
2624-893X
Publisher :
Frontiers Media
Volume :
2
Pages :
6
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Linking belowground diversity to ecosystem function
Funders :
COST Action FP1305 Biolink
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