Generic bio-inventory of functional soil microbial diversity in permanent grassland ecosystems across management and climate gradients

目前的欧洲共同农业政策(CAP)和2014-2020年欧洲生境指令指出，永久和广泛管理的草原系统(PEG)在农业和生态方面的重要性日益增加。BioInventt引入了一种创新的、以科学为基础的研究方法，以弥合关于这一农业生态计划效率的剩余知识差距，以增强地上和地下的生物多样性，从而从其支持功能中获利，以确保生态系统服务(供应功能)。从亚速尔群岛到瑞典北部分别具有亚热带和北方气候的泛欧生物发明研究尺度注定要深刻理解草原管理(例如，密集和广泛的)和农业气候差异对土壤微生物动态的相互依存影响及其对中央生态系统服务(例如，支持和调节功能)的后果(当前生物多样性呼吁的主题1)。BioInventt采用了协调一致的两流方法。在研究流中，所有合作伙伴在农民提供的田地和受控田野实验中开展互补性和面向过程的研究活动，以便对整个欧洲草原的土壤微生物多样性及其功能潜力进行空间评估。这是对早期泛欧洲土壤清单的重要补充，该清单没有涉及永久草原及其土壤微生物功能。同时启动了参与性外联流，以吸引项目开始时已有的利益攸关方参与(协作、参与)，并以调整后的方式向从非政府组织到国家和欧洲一级的决策者的各种利益攸关方传播项目成果(例如，BioInvente工具箱)(咨询、通报)。BioInventt对欧盟正在进行的激励措施做出了巨大贡献，以制定面向未来的管理和监测目标，以实现土壤生物多样性的最佳保护和利用，并为永久草原生态系统中的各种生态系统服务做出贡献，包括可能适用于其他农业生态系统的挂钩。

The current European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the European Habitats Directive for 2014 to 2020 point towards an increased agricultural and ecological importance of permanent and extensively managed grassland systems (PEGS). BIOINVENT introduces an innovative, science-based research approach to close remaining knowledge gaps on the efficiency of this agro-ecological scheme to enhance above- and below-ground biodiversity to profit from their support functions to secure ecosystem services (provision function). The pan-European study scale of BIOINVENT ranging from the Azores to northern Sweden with sub-tropical and boreal climates, respectively, is predestined for yielding a profound understanding of interdependent effects of grassland management (e.g., intensive vs. extensive) and agro-climatic distinctions on soil microbial dynamics and their consequences for central ecosystem services (e.g., support and regulation functions) (Theme 1 of the current BiodivERsA call). BIOINVENT applies a concerted 2-stream approach. In the Research Stream, all partners apply complementary and process-oriented research activities on fields provided by farmers and in controlled field experiments allowing for a spatial assessment of soil microbial diversity and its functional potential across European grasslands. This is a crucial complement to earlier pan-European soil inventories that did not address permanent grasslands and their soil microbial functions. The participatory Outreach Stream is simultaneously initialised to engage stakeholders already at the project start (collaborate, involve) and to disseminate project outcomes (e.g., BIOINVENT tool-box) in an adjusted manner to various stakeholders ranging from non-governmental organisations to decision makers at national and European level (consult, inform). BIOINVENT contributes greatly to on-going EU-incentives to develop future-oriented management and monitoring objectives to reach optimal protection and utilisation of soil biodiversity and its contribution to various ecosystem services in permanent grassland ecosystems including PEGS that might be applicable to other agro-ecosystems.