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Biodiversity of soil fauna in agroecosystems
Project
Project code: vTI-BD-08-34
Contract period: 01.05.2004
- 31.08.2008
Purpose of research: Basic research
Agricultural management like soil tillage, cropping sequence, plant pest management, fertilisation etc. controls biodiversity in agroecosystems. Presence and abundance of different species of soil fauna affect soil functions considerably. Keystone species of the microfauna (e.g. nematodes), mesofauna (e.g. enchytraeids, collembolans) and the macrofauna (e.g. earthworms) are involved in many important soil processes. The identification of keystone species in soil and interpretation of their interactions in soil under the specific conditions of agricultural management have scientific priority to go easy on our resources of agricultural production. In this context soils treated according to ecofarming guidelines are also investigated. Additional grid-like sampling designs make a regionalisation of the results possible to identify and explain the importance of biodiversity on larger scales of different landscape areas considering the spatial variability.
Section overview
Subjects
- Special animal species
- Agroecology
- Soil science
