A new study reveals the microbial biodiversity of dehesa soil

A study reveals the underground interactions between fungi and oomycetes in twenty Andalusian dehesas, wooded pasturelands ...
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Soil health: The importance of the rhizosphere

Lynette Abbott examines how the rhizosphere, a narrow collar of soil clinging to plant roots, is emerging as a key player in ...
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How local environmental variability influences soil mesofauna in Andean wetlands

Soil fauna includes a myriad of organisms, ranging from tiny microfauna invertebrates (with body sizes <100 μm) to meso (>100 μm to 2 mm) and macrofauna (>2 mm). Among soil mesofauna, some of the ...

Soil molecular diversity spikes as microbes decompose plants, researchers discover

Globally, soils contain three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere and all plants, combined. Which means that ...
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PHYSICO-GEOCHEMICAL AND MINERAL COMPOSITION OF NEEM TREE SOILS AND RELATION TO ORGANIC PROPERTIES

WILLIAM C. MAHANEY, JOAN VOROS, RAMANATHAN KRISHNAMANI, RONALD G. V. HANCOCK, SUSAN AUFREITER, MICHAEL W. MILNER and CHRISTOPHER C. R. ALLEN The Neem tree, the oil of which has a long history of ...
Beyond Pesticides

Adding to Wide Body of Science, Study Finds Pesticides Impact Bacteria and Overall Soil Microbiome Health

Healthy soils depend on a healthy soil microbiome, with beneficial organisms like bacteria providing key ecosystem services.
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DIGGING DEEPER – HOW SOIL BIOTA DRIVE AND RESPOND TO PLANT INVASIONS: Direct and indirect effects of native range expansion on soil microbial community structure and function

1. Analogous to the spread of non-native species, shifts in native species' ranges resulting from climate and land use change are also creating new combinations of species in many ecosystems. These ...