Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide

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Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01627-2

The authors investigate relationships between various soil stressors that exceed critical thresholds and the maintenance of ecosystem services. They show that multiple stressors crossing a high-level threshold reduces soil functioning and can be consistently used to predict ecosystem functioning.

Source: Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide