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IMPACT OF CLIMA
IMPACT TE CHANGE ON SOIL BIODIVERSITY
CLIMATE BIODIVERSITY-- A REVIEW
Asit Mandal* and Neenu S.
Indian Institute of Soil Science,
Nabi Bagh, Berasia Road , Bhopal-462 038, India
Received: 15-03-2012 Accepted: 19-11-2012
ABSTRACT
Global climate change can have significant impacts on all the soil biodiversity and related services.
These impacts can be directly or indirectly linked to the alteration of the climatic parameters (e.g.
temperature, humidity). Soil biodiversity is more extensive than any other environment on the
globe when all living forms are considered. The soil biota contains representations of all groups of
microorganism like fungi, bacteria, algae and viruses, as well as the microfauna such as protozoa and
nematodes. T oday
oday,, disturbance rregimes
Today egimes ar e changing drastically under the combined effects of climate
are
change, biological invasions and dir ect human modifications of the environment. However
direct However,, it rremains
emains
very difficult to assess and predict how soil communities will respond to these disturbances.
Environmental variability is an integral part of the dynamics of ecosystems, and some disturbances
are unavoidable. Climate change may intensify these seasonal disturbances, stretching the limits
more towards those of extreme events.
Key words
words: Climate change, Soil biodiversity, Soil ecology, Green house gas.