Journal article
Soil biodiversity and human health.
- Wall DH School of Global Environmental Sustainability and Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1036, USA.
- Nielsen UN Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Locked Bag 1797, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales 2751, Australia.
- Six J Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH-Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.
- 2015-11-24
Published in:
- Nature. - 2015
Agriculture
Animals
Anthelmintics
Anthrax
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Atmosphere
Bacillus anthracis
Biodiversity
Biomass
Conservation of Natural Resources
Drinking Water
Drug Resistance
Food Chain
Health
Helminths
Humans
Hypersensitivity
Plant Diseases
Soil
Soil Microbiology
English
Soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized as providing benefits to human health because it can suppress disease-causing soil organisms and provide clean air, water and food. Poor land-management practices and environmental change are, however, affecting belowground communities globally, and the resulting declines in soil biodiversity reduce and impair these benefits. Importantly, current research indicates that soil biodiversity can be maintained and partially restored if managed sustainably. Promoting the ecological complexity and robustness of soil biodiversity through improved management practices represents an underutilized resource with the ability to improve human health.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1038/nature15744
- PMID 26595276
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/153449
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