Interactions between agricultural management and soil biodiversity: an overview of current knowledge

This book presents a literature review of the soil biodiversity problems of the European Farmers and the strategies developed to solve them.
The aspects considered in this revision book are:
- The importance of the soil biodiversity in the design of cropping systems.
- Crop rotation and its effect over the edaphic fauna.
- The effect of tillage on the communities that inhabit in the cultivated soils.
- The ability of soil fauna to regulate the proliferation of pathogenic fungi related to certain crop diseases.
- Different types of bacteria that promote plant growth.
- The relationship between soil contamination and biodiversity.
- The effect of organic and synthetic fertilizers on the biodiversity of the edaphic fauna.
- The development of alarm systems that allow the early detection of pathogens.
- The increase in soil quality associated with the use of cover crops.
- The use of trap crops to reduce the use of pesticides while maintaining production and quality.

This work was funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 project SoildiverAgro [grant agreement 817819].