The conversion of natural forests into pastures or crops involves a drastic change, damaging in the natural forest succession and leading the systems for the early stages of immaturity, simplicity and instability. The degradation of ecosystems is associated with the loss of biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides, therefore, it is necessary to know soil biodiversity, in order to generate knowledge and develop more sustainable practices. The goal was to determine the structure of communities of soil organisms and the soil nutrients and identify their contributions to ecosystem services in land use systems Tarumá-Mirim settlement, in the municipality of Manaus, Brazil. The greater abundance of macroinvertebrates soil was found in diversified agroforestry systems, which led to better conditions in the nutrients and the organic matter for to the colonization of soil organisms, mainly termite and earthworms, providing favorable chemical properties for the soil fertility and the increment of the nutrient cycling in the ecosystem.
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