Toward a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data

Ramirez, Kelly S.; Döring, Markus; Eisenhauer, Nico; Gardi, Ciro; Ladau, Josh; Leff, Jonathan W.; Lentendu, Guillaume; Lindo, Zoë; Rillig, Matthias C.; Russell, David J.; Scheu, Stefan; John, Mark G. St.; Vries, Franciska T. de; Wubet, Tesfaye; Putten, Wim H. van der; Wall, Diana H.

doi:10.3389/fevo.2015.00091

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“…Also, predicted increases in soil erosion and climateinduced shifts in land use pose a considerable threat to soil biodiversity; however, in all these cases, the full magnitude still needs to be established, even though a great deal of recent data has become available (e.g. Ramirez et al, 2015). Moreover, there are several complications in doing so, including our limited knowledge on what biodiversity is actually present in soils, and its enormous variation in spatial distribution from micro-to macroscale (Ettema and Wardle, 2002;Bardgett and van der Putten, 2014).…”

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The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Keesstra

Bouma

Wallinga

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Abstract. In this forum paper we discuss how soil scientists can help to reach the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the most effective manner. Soil science, as a land-related discipline, has important links to several of the SDGs, which are demonstrated through the functions of soils and the ecosystem services that are linked to those functions (see graphical abstract in the Supplement). We explore and discuss how soil scientists can rise to the challenge both internally, in terms of our procedures and practices, and externally, in terms of our relations with colleague scientists in other disciplines, diverse groups of stakeholders and the policy arena. To meet these goals we recommend the following steps to be taken by the soil science community as a whole: (i) embrace the UN SDGs, as they provide a platform that allows soil science to demonstrate its relevance for realizing a sustainable society by 2030; (ii) show the specific value of soil science: research should explicitly show how using modern soil information can improve the results of inter-and transdisciplinary studies on SDGs related to food security, water scarcity, climate change, biodiversity loss and health threats; (iii) take leadership in overarching system analysis of ecosystems, as soils and soil scientists have an integrated nature and this placesPublished by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 112 S. D. Keesstra et al.: The significance of soils and soil science soil scientists in a unique position; (iii) raise awareness of soil organic matter as a key attribute of soils to illustrate its importance for soil functions and ecosystem services; (iv) improve the transfer of knowledge through knowledge brokers with a soil background; (v) start at the basis: educational programmes are needed at all levels, starting in primary schools, and emphasizing practical, down-to-earth examples; (vi) facilitate communication with the policy arena by framing research in terms that resonate with politicians in terms of the policy cycle or by considering drivers, pressures and responses affecting impacts of land use change; and finally (vii) all this is only possible if researchers, with soil scientists in the front lines, look over the hedge towards other disciplines, to the world at large and to the policy arena, reaching over to listen first, as a basis for genuine collaboration.

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The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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Wallinga

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“…The biodiversity ecosystem function relationship is underlying most actual soil biodiversity study (Bender et al, 2016;Bradford et al, 2014;He et al, 2009;Jing et al, 2015;Ramirez et al, 2015), and some authors even go as far as stating that soil quality is primarily determined by soil biodiversity (Gardi et al, 2008(Gardi et al, , 2013. The premise to these assumptions is that more diverse soil communities exhibit higher functional diversity and thus play a stronger role in more soil ecosystem functions, directly or indirectly (Eisenhauer et al, 2012;Lefcheck et al, 2015).…”

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Pedotransfer Functions in Earth System Science: Challenges and Perspectives

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Herbst

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Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to complex knowledge rules that relate available soil information to soil properties and variables that are needed to parameterize soil processes. In this paper, we review the existing PTFs and document the new generation of PTFs developed in the different disciplines of Earth system science. To meet the methodological challenges for a successful application in Earth system modeling, we emphasize that PTF development has to go hand in hand with suitable extrapolation and upscaling techniques such that the PTFs correctly represent the spatial heterogeneity of soils. PTFs should encompass the variability of the estimated soil property or process, in such a way that the estimation of parameters allows for validation and can also confidently provide for extrapolation and upscaling purposes capturing the spatial variation in soils. Most actively pursued recent developments are related to parameterizations of solute transport, heat exchange, soil respiration, and organic carbon content, root density, and vegetation water uptake. Further challenges are to be addressed in parameterization of soil erosivity and land use change impacts at multiple scales. We argue that a comprehensive set of PTFs can be applied throughout a wide range of disciplines of Earth system science, with emphasis on land surface models. Novel sensing techniques provide a true breakthrough for this, yet further improvements are necessary for methods to deal with uncertainty and to validate applications at global scale.

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“…El estudio de la biodiversidad del suelo a través del uso combinado de herramientas moleculares de última generación (ej., la metagenómica) y la taxonomía clásica, así como entender las reglas que gobiernan el ensamblaje de comunidades y el papel que juega la biodiversidad en el mantenimiento de funciones clave en los ecosistemas (ej., descomposición de la materia orgánica, reciclado de nutrientes, secuestro de carbono) son, según la FAO, grandes retos de la ecología actual (Ramirez et al 2015). Los organismos del suelo, que incluyen a la fauna edáfica, son habitualmente ignorados en estudios de biodiversidad a nivel del ecosistema, pese a que normalmente representan la mayor proporción de especies, sobre todo los microorganismos.…”

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“…Los organismos del suelo, que incluyen a la fauna edáfica, son habitualmente ignorados en estudios de biodiversidad a nivel del ecosistema, pese a que normalmente representan la mayor proporción de especies, sobre todo los microorganismos. Son, además, principales agentes controladores de la función ecosistémica, favoreciendo la descomposición de la hojarasca a través de su rotura en fragmentos más pequeños y contribuyendo, por tanto, al reciclado de nutrientes (Wolters 1991;Bardgett y Chan 1999;Ramirez et al 2015). Como resultado de esta carencia de información generalizada, los estudios que investigan los impactos de la deposición de N sobre la estructura, composición y abundancia de las comunidades de fauna del suelo son aún más escasos (Heneghan y Bolger 1996;Ochoa-Hueso et al 2014b).…”

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Consecuencias de la deposición de nitrógeno sobre la biodiversidad y el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas terrestres: Una aproximación general desde la ecología de ecosistemas

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Toward a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data

Cited by 29 publications

References 68 publications

The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Pedotransfer Functions in Earth System Science: Challenges and Perspectives

Consecuencias de la deposición de nitrógeno sobre la biodiversidad y el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas terrestres: Una aproximación general desde la ecología de ecosistemas

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