Ecologically intensive agriculture reduces bacterial communities simplification induced by intensive agriculture use
Résumé
In the last few decades, classical farming practices depending on high agricultural inputs, such as nitrogen fertilizers and soil tillage have allowed sufficient food production. However, important ecological cost and a strong degradation of ecosystem services was observed in return. Therefore, environmentally-friendly farming practices, such as ecologically intensive agriculture (EIA) are being considered. This change towards EIA establishment imposed by European Directives could influence soil properties and microbial biodiversity, which play an important role in the agro-ecosystem’s functionality and plant productivity. So using an experimental system we aim to assess the impact of different agricultural practices from Intensive to conservative on the taxonomic and functional soil microbial diversity aspects.