ABSTRACT
George G. Brown, Elodie da Silva and Marcílio J. Thomazini, Embrapa Forestry, Brazil; Cíntia C. Niva, Embrapa Cerrados, Brazil; Thibaud Decaëns, Université de Montpellier, France; Luís F. N. Cunha, Cardiff University, UK; Herlon S. Nadolny, Wilian C. Demetrio, Alessandra Santos, Talita Ferreira, Lilianne S. Maia, Ana Caroline Conrado, Rodrigo F. Segalla and Alexandre Casadei Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil; Amarildo Pasini, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil; Marie L. C. Bartz and Klaus D. Sautter, Universidade Positivo, Brazil; Samuel W. James, Maharishi University of Management, USA; Dilmar Baretta, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil; Zaida Inês Antoniolli, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil; Maria Jesus Iglesias Briones, Universidad de Vigo, Spain; José Paulo Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Jörg Römbke, ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Germany; and Patrick Lavelle, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
1 Introduction
2 Soil fauna biodiversity
3 Soil fauna functional groups and classification
4 Role of soil fauna in delivering ecosystem services
5 Soil management and soil fauna populations
6 Soil animals as indicators of soil management and soil health
7 Assessing the contribution of soil fauna to ecosystem services
8 Conclusion
9 Where to look for further information
10 Acknowledgements
11 References
There is a wealth of knowledge published on soil fauna, including many books as well as magazine articles and a very large number of scientific papers – using the keywords soil fauna and soil animals retrieves around 4000 and 15000 hits in the Web of Science (as of 9 March 2017). Over the last several decades the amount of available information on soil fauna has grown exponentially (Satchell, 1975, 1992), making it difficult even for professional soil zoologists to stay up to date on current research and latest results in the area.
