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Soil Biodiversity and Tree Crops Resilience

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Soil Biological Communities and Ecosystem Resilience

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Promoting resilience capacity in agroecosystems is a very promising strategy for the sustainable management of tree crops. Belowground biological communities provide a range of different environmental services, including food webs structure stability and biodiversity conservation in aggregates, that contribute to the maintenance of crop production and effectively respond to external disturbances caused by global change. Aboveground habitats rely on a range of resilient reactions driven by factors including soil biodiversity interacting with dominant plant community species. Nevertheless, the links between soil biodiversity and aboveground resilience in time and space have been only partially studied and defined. Aboveground resilience is known to act on decadal or longer time scales while belowground communities often react on a time scale of a few years. This is the reason why coupling of both resilient reactions has been poorly studied and needs more investigations. Aim of this review is to provide a perspective on the potential of these studies in the management of tree crops, by identifying main drivers and services underpinning the implementation of sustainable strategies.

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    Aurelio Ciancio

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Ciancio, A., Gamboni, M. (2017). Soil Biodiversity and Tree Crops Resilience. In: Lukac, M., Grenni, P., Gamboni, M. (eds) Soil Biological Communities and Ecosystem Resilience. Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63336-7_20

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