The impact of boreal forest conversion to horticulture on soil arthropod communities and biological quality over time

随着时间的推移，北方森林转变为园艺对土壤节肢动物群落和生物质量的影响

• 批准号: NE/X008428/1
• 负责人: Alexa Varah
• 金额: $ 1.69万
• 依托单位: Natural History Museum
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FX008428%2F1
• 关键词: impact; boreal; forest; conversion; horticulture

NERC : Beth Evans : NE/L123456/1Agricultural expansion in northern boreal regions presents an opportunity to generate food security and self-sufficiency in the face of climate change. However, little is known about how conversion of boreal forest to agriculture affects soil invertebrate communities, despite their essential role in sustaining crop productivity among many other soil functions essential to human well-being. This project will assess how soil invertebrate communities and the biological quality of soil on farmland change due to conversion and how long the soil has been cultivated since. Soil biological quality, measured using the QBS-ar index, is a good indicator not only of soil biodiversity, but the capacity of soils to maintain soil functioning for delivery of goods and services. In addition to generating an original data set for use by the wider scientific community, we will produce a range of technical and plain-language resources to (i) facilitate widespread monitoring of soil biological quality and (ii) inform agricultural policy and land management decision-making tools to develop sustainable agricultural landscapes in Canada's northern boreal regions.

NERC：贝丝·埃文斯：NE/L123456/1北方北部地区的农业扩张为在气候变化的情况下实现粮食安全和自给自足提供了机会。然而，很少有人知道如何转换的北方森林农业影响土壤无脊椎动物群落，尽管他们在维持作物生产力的许多其他土壤功能至关重要的人类福祉。该项目将评估土壤无脊椎动物群落和农田土壤的生物质量如何因转换而发生变化，以及土壤自转换以来已经耕种了多长时间。使用QBS-ar指数测量的土壤生物质量不仅是土壤生物多样性的良好指标，而且是土壤维持土壤功能以提供商品和服务的能力的良好指标。除了生成一个原始数据集供更广泛的科学界使用，我们将产生一系列的技术和简单的语言资源，以（一）促进土壤生物质量的广泛监测和（二）通知农业政策和土地管理决策工具，以发展加拿大北方北部地区的可持续农业景观。