Soil biodiversity plays a key role in sustaining life on the planet and is threatened by intensive agriculture, deforestation, urbanisation, loss of organic matter, soil compaction and sealing, soil acidification and nutrient imbalances, pollution, salinisation and sodification, fires, erosion and landslides, climate change and invasive species according to FAO.
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