Communities of microbes (microbiomes), particularly in soils, can be startlingly diverse, with as many as 10,000 species in ...
Lynette Abbott examines how the rhizosphere, a narrow collar of soil clinging to plant roots, is emerging as a key player in soil and plant health ...
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 ...
A study reveals the underground interactions between fungi and oomycetes in twenty Andalusian dehesas, wooded pasturelands typical of the Iberian Peninsula, making it possible to identify the role of ...
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 ...
Earth’s top 2 meters (6 feet) of soil hold 2.5 trillion metric tons of carbon — more than is held in living vegetation and the atmosphere combined. But soil carbon sinks are under threat — global ...
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 ...