Soil Ecosystem Restoration after Disturbances
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 12789
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Interests: soil fauna; ecosystem restoration; ecosystem ecology
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil represents a very conservative part of the ecosystem, and its restoration in terms of biodiversity and ecosystem function may take a longer time than the comparative recovery of the aboveground parts of the ecosystem. The restoration of soil and soil processes which, in large, extend to soil organisms is a basic precondition for the restoration of functioning ecosystems. At the same time, soil is under multiple stress from local intensive disturbances such as mining or similar activity to less intensive but large-scale effects of nutrient deposition. Such disturbances are related to alternations of the natural disturbance regime, intensive agriculture, and numerous others. Moreover, these disturbances interact in a non-trivial way, often with one disturbance resulting in the ecosystem becoming more sensitive to other disturbances, though the opposite situation may occur. The aim of this review is to explore relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem recovery following disturbance in a broad sense.
Prof. Dr. Jan Frouz
Dr. Markéta Hendrychová
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- disturbance
- recovery
- restoration
- ecosystems
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