Publications

Articles

34. Singh, B.K., Trivedi, P., Sáez-Sandino, T., Barreto, C., Gao, M., Delgado-Baquerizo, M. 2025. Beyond the Kunming-Montreal Framework: Monitoring and conservation policies of global soil biodiversity. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00108-y 

33. Marín, C., Barreto, C., <...>, Lindo, Z. 2025. Open letter: A global call to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization. Plants, People, Planet 7:e70121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70121 

32. Jacinavicius, F.C., <...>, Barreto, C., <...>, Welbourn, C. 2025. Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna (TCBF): The Brazilian acarofauna (Arachnida: Holothyrida, Ixodida, Mesostigmata, Opilioacarida, Sarcoptiformes, and Trombidiformes). Zoologia 42:e24081, https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v42.e24081

31. Lindo, Z., Battigelli, J., Parnell, J.J., de Ruiter, P., Brown, G.G., Barreto, C. 2025. The threat-work: a network of potential threats to soil biodiversity. Soil Organisms 97 (SI):31–46, https://doi.org/10.25674/418 

30. Barreto, C., Parnell, J.J., Brown, G.G., Lindo, Z., de Ruiter, P. 2025. Earth’s buried wealth: uncovering global soil biodiversity. Soil Organisms 97(SI):1–5, https://doi.org/10.25674/443 

29. Pravia, A., Barreto, C., Ashwood, F., Keith, A. 2025. Oribatid mite taxa and composition associated with temperate habitats in Great Britain. Applied Soil Ecology 215:106471, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106471 

28. do Prado, T.J., Godoy, L.L., Barreto, C., Rajoul, H., Tixier, M.-S., Merot, A., Navia, D. 2025. Biodiversity of oribatid mites as a tool to monitor soil health in the agroecological transition: Digging deeper into French Mediterranean vineyards. Applied Soil Ecology 214:106358, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106358 

27. Barreto, C., Faucher, G., Karhi, K., Antunes, P.M. 2025. Lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor L.) invasion alters the composition of soil invertebrate communities in two mixed deciduous forests. Pedobiologia 112:151072, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2025.151072 

26. Parnell, J.J., de Ruiter, P., Guerra, C., Montanarella, L., Eugenio, N.R.,  Ferreira, T., Correia, M.E.F., Niva, C.C., Jesus, E.C., Oliveira, M.I.L., Antunes, L.F.S., Parron, L.M., Coelho, M.R., Chaer, G.M.,  Malaquias, J.V., Silva, O.D.D., Mendes, I.C., Lindo, Z., Battigelli, J., Bagnara, G.L., González, R., Poch, R.M., Wall, D.H., Vilonen, L., Malorgio, G., Barreto, C., Kobayashi, M., Cuevas-Corona, R., Brown, G.G. 2025. Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory. Nature Ecology and Evolution 9:1302–1306, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02754-z

25. Webster, K.L., Strack, M., Balliston, N., Davies, M., Hettinga, E.K., Hunter, M., Kleinke, K., Schmidt, M., Barreto, C., Bird, M., Blann, K., Bona, K., Cassidy, A., Connolly, J., Davidson, S.J., Fedorchuk, L., Garneau, M., Harris, L., He, H., Howie, S., Kirkwood, A., Pontone, N., Richardson, K., Sanderson, N., Seutin, G., Yin, X. 2025. Data and knowledge needs for improving science and policy for peatlands in Canada in a changing world: Insights from Global Peatlands Initiative Workshop, June 2023. FACETS 10:1–19, https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2024-0142 

24. Li, Y., Han, D., Rogers, C.A., Finkelstein, S.A., Hararuk, O., Waddington, J.M., Barreto, C., McLaughlin, J.W., Snider, J., Gonsamo, A. 2025. Peat depth and carbon storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters 52:e2024GL110679, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110679 

23. Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2024. Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from peatlands in the United States with notes on oribatid mites from a bog in Minnesota. Zootaxa 5556:106–121, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5556.1.10 

22. Eugenio, N.R., Barreto, C., Parnell, J.J. 2024. Q&A with Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio, Carlos Barreto, Jacob Parnell. One Earth 7:2112–2115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.11.016 

21. Boeger, W.A., <...>, Barreto, C., <...>, Leite, Y.L.R. 2024. Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil: Setting the baseline knowledge on the animal diversity in Brazil. Zoologia 41:e24005, https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e24005 

20. Barreto, C., Buchkowski, R.W., Lindo, Z. 2024. Restructuring of soil food webs reduces carbon storage potential in boreal peatlands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 193:109413, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109413 

19. Buchkowski, R.W., Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2023. soilfoodwebs: An R package for analyzing and simulating food web dynamics. European Journal of Soil Biology 19:103556, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2023.103556 

18. Barroso, G., Barreto, C., Padilha, A.C., Pazini, J.D.B., Santos, J.C., Godoy, L.L., Yamamoto, P.T. 2023. The double-edged sword effect of warming on the soil predatory mite Cosmolaelaps brevistilis (Karg, 1978) (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae). Entomological Communications 5:ec05024, https://doi.org/10.37486/2675-1305.ec05024 

17. Nepomucena, T.C., Barreto, C., de Paula, A.S. 2023. Composition and structure of Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) assemblages along a vegetational gradient at Itacolomi State Park, southern Brazil. Entomology Beginners e053, https://doi.org/10.12741/2675-9276.v4.e053

16. de Lima, E.C.A., Zeppelini, D., Ferreira, A.S., de Brito, R.A., de Oliveira, J.V.K.C., Medeiros, E.S.F.M., Salimon, C.I., Barreto, C. 2023. Collembola biocenoses (Arthropoda: Hexapoda) in the Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. European Journal of Soil Biology 117:103496, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2023.103496  

15. Barreto, C., Conceição, P.H.S., de Lima, E.C.A., Stievano, L.C., Zeppelini, D., Kolka, R.K., Hanson, P.J., Lindo, Z. 2023. Large-scale experimental warming reduces soil biodiversity through peatland drying. Frontiers in Environmental Sciences 11:1153683, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1153683 

14. Ashwood, F., Barreto, C., Lampert, M., Butt, K.R., Doick, K., Vanguelova, E.I. 2022. ​Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration. Soil Research 61:311–328, https://doi.org/10.1071/SR21286 

13. De Giosa, M., Barreto, C. 2022. New host plant records of Humerobates rostrolamellatus Grandjean,1936 (Oribatida: Humerobatidae) in Italy. Entomology Beginners 3:e040, https://doi.org/10.12741/2675-9276.v3.e040 

12. Kamath, D., Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2022. Nematode contributions to the soil food web trophic structure of two contrasting boreal peatlands in Canada. Pedobiologia 93:150809, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2022.150809 

11. Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2022. Response of soil biodiversity to global change. Pedobiologia 90:150792, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2022.150792 

10. Barreto, C., Branfireun, B.A., McLaughlin, J.W., Lindo, Z. 2021. Responses of oribatid mites to warming in boreal peatlands depend on fen type. Pedobiologia 89:150772, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2021.150772 

9. Barreto, C., Rillig, M.C., Waldman, W.R., Maaß, S. 2021. How soil invertebrates deal with the increasing microplastic contamination. Frontiers for Young Minds. Frontiers for Young Minds 9:625228, https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2021.625228 

8. de Paula, A.S., Barreto, C., Telmo, M.C.M., Diotaiuti, L., Galvão, C. 2021. Historical biogeography and the evolution of hematophagy in Rhodniini (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:660151, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.660151 

7. Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2021. Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from two contrasting boreal fens: an update on oribatid mites of Canadian peatlands. Systematic & Applied Acarology 26:866–884, https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.26.5.4 

6. Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2020. Armored mites, beetle mites or moss mites: the fantastic world of Oribatida. Frontiers for Young Minds 8:546263, https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.545263 

5. Meehan, M.L., Barreto, C., Turnbull, M.S., Bradley, R.L., Bellenger, J., Darnajoux, R., Lindo, Z. 2020. Response of soil fauna to simulated global change factors depends on ambient climate conditions. Pedobiologia 83:150672, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2020.150672 

4. Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2020. Decomposition in peatlands: who are the players and what affects them? Frontiers for Young Minds 8:107, https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00107 

3. Barreto, C., Rillig, M.C., Lindo, Z. 2020. Addition of polypropylene and polyester in soil affects decomposition rates but not microarthropod communities. Soil Organisms 92:109–119, https://doi.org/10.25674/so92iss2pp109 

2. de Paula, A.S., Barreto, C. 2020. Potential distribution of Nysius simulans (Stål) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) in soybean crops in South America under current and future climate. Journal of Economic Entomology 113:1702–1710, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toaa089 

1. Barreto, C., Lindo, Z. 2018. Drivers of decomposition and the detrital invertebrate community differ across a hummock-hollow microtopology in Boreal peatlands. Écoscience 25:1, 39–48, https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2017.1412282 

Technical Reports

Barreto, C. 2025. Report of the fourth annual meeting of the International Network on Soil Biodiversity (NETSOB). FAO, Rome, Italy. 20p. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16772.64643

Barreto, C., McLaughlin, K., Branfireun, B., Lindo, Z. 2024. Understanding the effects of climate change on peatlands in Northern Ontario: The BRACE experiment. Ministry of Natural Resources, Science and Research Branch, Peterborough, ON. Climate Change Research Note CCRN-15. 15 p. + appendix. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20004.18560 

Auler, A. S., Guardieiro, V., Barreto, C.R.A., Saback, L.M.M., Leão, M. 2015. Relevance analysis and speleological diagnosis of Fazenda dos Borges Project. Belo Horizonte: Carste Ciência e Meio Ambiente. 118p. (in Portuguese) http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.36124.40321 

Auler, A.S., Silva, J.R., Saback, L.M.M., Barreto, C.R.A. 2014. Speleological diagnosis and relevance of PCH Baltazar project. Belo Horizonte: Carste Ciência e Meio Ambiente. 111p. (in Portuguese) http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30671.80803 

Barreto, C.R.A., Saback, L.M.M. 2014. Bioespeleological monitoring of Mata Grande I Project. Belo Horizonte: Carste Ciência e Meio Ambiente. 21p. (in Portuguese) http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17250.03521/1