City parks and gardens support a rich and diverse community of soil organisms including bacteria, fungi, protists and invertebrates, which often go unnoticed compared with eye-catching plants and ...

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Expanding efforts to measure, monitor and protect soil biodiversity around the world will intensify further with the establishment of the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, to be led by the Food ...

Current protected areas only poorly cover the places most relevant for conserving soil ecological values. To assess global hotspots for preserving soil ecological values, an international team of ...

A new study has revealed a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events. Researchers from Leipzig University, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

Soil —the brown stuff often dismissed as mere ‘dirt’— harbors more forms of life than any other habitat on Earth, according to a new study. Approximately 59 percent of all known species, ranging from ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered how wild ancestors of modern crops hold the key to preserving and restoring the planet’s hidden soil biodiversity. This landmark study is one of the ...