Sustainable Land Use Strengthens Microbial and Herbivore Controls in Soil Food Webs in Current and Future Climates

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Beitragende

  • Marie Sünnemann - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Universität Leipzig (Autor:in)
  • Andrew D. Barnes - , University of Waikato (Autor:in)
  • Angelos Amyntas - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Autor:in)
  • Marcel Ciobanu - , Romanian Academy (Autor:in)
  • Malte Jochum - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Universität Leipzig, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Autor:in)
  • Alfred Lochner - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Universität Leipzig (Autor:in)
  • Anton M. Potapov - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Universität Leipzig (Autor:in)
  • Thomas Reitz - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) (Autor:in)
  • Benjamin Rosenbaum - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Autor:in)
  • Martin Schädler - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) (Autor:in)
  • Anja Zeuner - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Universität Leipzig (Autor:in)
  • Nico Eisenhauer - , Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Universität Leipzig (Autor:in)

Abstract

Climate change and land-use intensification are threatening soil communities and ecosystem functions. Understanding the combined effects of climate change and land use is crucial for predicting future impacts on soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in agroecosystems. Here, we used a field experiment to quantify the combined effects of climate change (warming and altered precipitation patterns) and land use (agricultural type and management intensity) on soil food webs across nematodes, micro-, and macroarthropods. Specifically, we investigated two types of agricultural systems—croplands and grasslands—under both high- and low-intensity management. We focused on assessing the functioning of soil food webs by investigating changes in energy flux to consumers in the main trophic groups: decomposers, microbivores, herbivores, and predators. While the total energy flux and detritivory, herbivory and predation in the soil food web remained unchanged across treatments, low-intensity land use—compared to high intensity—led to higher microbivory and microbial control under future climate conditions (i.e., warming and summer drought) in croplands and grasslands. At the same time, microbial and herbivore control were higher under low-intensity land use in croplands and grasslands. Overall, our results underscore the potential benefits of less intensive, more sustainable management practices for soil food-web functioning under current and future climate scenarios.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere17554
FachzeitschriftGlobal change biology
Jahrgang30
Ausgabenummer11
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Nov. 2024
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 39545329

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • climate change, energy flux, grassland, land use, soil arthropods, soil microbes, soil nematodes