Biodiversity of Soil Mesofauna Associated with the Design of Home Gardens in Mapuche Agroecosystems—Case Study in the Araucanía Region Peredo Parada, Santiago Barrera Salas, Claudia Burbi, Sara Agroecology Functional biodiversity Women farmer Home gardens play a transcendental role in food sovereignty, for which the management of habitats above ground and underground are complementary strategies. This study aims to compare the biodiversity of soil mesofauna groups between agroecosystems with a conventional and an agroecological design. Through the combination of quantitative (plant inventories) and qualitative (mobile interviewing and talking maps) techniques, the units of this study was described. Soil samples were mounted in a Berlesse–Tullgren system, and the abundance, richness, diversity, and equality of soil organisms were determined. The relationships between functional groups were compared taxonomically and biocenotically. The results indicated higher equality in the conventional home garden, while the communities studied present a medium taxocenotic similarity, without great biocenotic differences. The diversity and richness of taxa, as well as the abundance in each group identified, were higher in the agroecological garden, which had more medicinal and aromatic plants. 2023-10-26T10:34:52Z 2023-10-26T10:34:52Z 2023-08-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Peredo Parada, S.; Barrera Salas, C.; Burbi, S. Biodiversity of Soil Mesofauna Associated with the Design of Home Gardens in Mapuche Agroecosystems—Case Study in the Araucanía Region. Land 2023, 12, 1704. [https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091704] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/85264 10.3390/ land12091704 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI