Articles | Volume 2, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-565-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-565-2016
Review article
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01 Nov 2016
Review article |  | 01 Nov 2016

Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

Juliane Filser, Jack H. Faber, Alexei V. Tiunov, Lijbert Brussaard, Jan Frouz, Gerlinde De Deyn, Alexei V. Uvarov, Matty P. Berg, Patrick Lavelle, Michel Loreau, Diana H. Wall, Pascal Querner, Herman Eijsackers, and Juan José Jiménez

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ED: Revision (17 Jul 2016) by Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
AR by Juliane Filser on behalf of the Authors (12 Aug 2016)  Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 Aug 2016) by Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (04 Sep 2016)
RR by Oswald Schmitz (14 Sep 2016)
ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (review by Editor) (17 Sep 2016) by Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
AR by Juliane Filser on behalf of the Authors (04 Oct 2016)  Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Oct 2016) by Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Oct 2016) by Jorge Mataix-Solera (Executive editor)
AR by Juliane Filser on behalf of the Authors (11 Oct 2016)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Soils store more than 3 times as much carbon than the atmosphere, but global carbon models still suffer from large uncertainty. We argue that this may be due to the fact that soil animals are not taken into account in such models. They dig, eat and distribute dead organic matter and microorganisms, and the quantity of their activity is often huge. Soil animals affect microbial activity, soil water content, soil structure, erosion and plant growth – and all of this affects carbon cycling.