Soil Biodiversity Integrates Solutions for a Sustainable Future

Ulva prolifera green tide outbreaks and their environmental impact in the Yellow Sea, China

(2019) Yongyu Zhang et al.   National Science Review

Global Environmental Changes Impact Soil Hydraulic Functions through Biophysical Feedbacks

(2019) David A. Robinson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity

(2019) Erin K. Cameron et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Single introductions of soil biota and plants generate long‐term legacies in soil and plant community assembly

(2019) E. R. Jasper Wubs et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Managing Agroecosystems for Soil Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency: Ecological Unknowns, Potential Outcomes, and a Path Forward

(2019) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

(2019) Johan van den Hoogen et al.   NATURE

Drought suppresses soil predators and promotes root herbivores in mesic, but not in xeric grasslands

(2019) André L. C. Franco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

(2019) T. W. Crowther et al.   SCIENCE

The search for the meaning of life in soil: an opinion

(2018) I. M. Young et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Physical Controls on Oxygen Distribution and Denitrification Potential in the North West Arabian Sea

(2018) Bastien Y. Queste et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The microbial nitrogen-cycling network

(2018) Marcel M. M. Kuypers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Frontiers in root ecology: recent advances and future challenges

(2018) Amandine Erktan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

(2018) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SCIENCE

Local habitat characteristics have a stronger effect than the surrounding urban landscape on beetle communities on green roofs

(2018) Kukka Kyrö et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Amazonian deforestation and soil biodiversity

(2018) André L.C. Franco et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Invasive plants differentially affect soil biota through litter and rhizosphere pathways: a meta‐analysis

(2018) Pei Zhang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil biological responses to, and feedbacks on, trophic rewilding

(2018) W. S. Andriuzzi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Natural climate solutions for the United States

(2018) Joseph E. Fargione et al.   Science Advances

Sequestering Soil Organic Carbon: A Nitrogen Dilemma

(2017) Jan Willem van Groenigen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Soil carbon 4 per mille

(2017) Budiman Minasny et al.   GEODERMA

Responses of belowground communities to large aboveground herbivores: Meta-analysis reveals biome-dependent patterns and critical research gaps

(2017) Walter S. Andriuzzi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Conventional tillage decreases the abundance and biomass of earthworms and alters their community structure in a global meta-analysis

(2017) María Jesús I. Briones et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter

(2017) Jennifer W. Harden et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Basal resistance enhances warming tolerance of alien over indigenous species across latitude

(2017) Charlene Janion-Scheepers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Arthropods and Fire: Previous Research Shaping Future Conservation

(2017) Katherine C. Kral et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Red list of a black box

(2017) Helen R. P. Phillips et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Urbanization erodes ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and may cause microbial communities to converge

(2017) Dietrich J. Epp Schmidt et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Going where no grains have gone before: From early to mid-succession

(2016) Timothy E. Crews et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Farmers’ knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

(2016) Natasha Pauli et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

The unseen invaders: introduced earthworms as drivers of change in plant communities in North American forests (a meta-analysis)

(2016) Dylan Craven et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global meta-analysis of the impacts of terrestrial invertebrate invaders on species, communities and ecosystems

(2016) Erin K. Cameron et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Policy: Map the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals

(2016) Måns Nilsson et al.   NATURE

Climate-smart soils

(2016) Keith Paustian et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

(2016) Santiago Soliveres et al.   NATURE

Eating from the same plate? Revisiting the role of labile carbon inputs in the soil food web

(2016) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil Animals and Pedogenesis

(2016) Luis Cunha et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability

(2016) S. Franz Bender et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Leaf litter arthropod responses to tropical forest restoration

(2016) Rebecca J. Cole et al.   Ecology and Evolution

AMF, phylogeny, and succession: specificity of response to mycorrhizal fungi increases for late-successional plants

(2016) Liz Koziol et al.   Ecosphere

Potential carbon dioxide emission reductions from avoided grassland conversion in the northern Great Plains

(2016) Marissa Ahlering et al.   Ecosphere

Altered Precipitation Impacts on Above- and Below-Ground Grassland Invertebrates: Summer Drought Leads to Outbreaks in Spring

(2016) Marcel D. Torode et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Does Land Degradation Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?

(2016) Edward B. Barbier et al.   PLoS One

Soil Biodiversity and the Environment

(2015) Uffe N. Nielsen et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

If we build it, will they colonize? A test of the field of dreams paradigm with soil macroinvertebrate communities

(2015) Ben R. Wodika et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Effects of woodland restoration and management on the community of surface-active arthropods in the metropolitan Chicago region

(2015) Matthew A. McCary et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Towards sustainable maize production: Glyphosate detoxification by Azospirillum sp. and Pseudomonas sp.

(2015) Claudia Travaglia et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Crop rotational diversity enhances belowground communities and functions in an agroecosystem

(2015) L. K. Tiemann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Belowground Ecosystem Recovery During Grassland Restoration: South African Highveld Compared to US Tallgrass Prairie

(2015) Sara G. Baer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Illumina MiSeq sequencing investigation on the contrasting soil bacterial community structures in different iron mining areas

(2015) Chen Hong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Do soil fauna really hasten litter decomposition? A meta-analysis of enclosure studies

(2015) Jan Frouz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Global change pressures on soils from land use and management

(2015) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

REVIEW: Potential roles of soil fauna in improving the efficiency of rain gardens used as natural stormwater treatment systems

(2015) Andrew S. Mehring et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Soil biodiversity and human health

(2015) Diana H. Wall et al.   NATURE

A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance

(2015) Losee L. Ling et al.   NATURE

Anecic earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) alleviate negative effects of extreme rainfall events on soil and plants in field mesocosms

(2015) Walter S. Andriuzzi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

A Global Comparison of Surface Soil Characteristics Across Five Cities

(2015) Richard V. Pouyat et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

The pika and the watershed: The impact of small mammal poisoning on the ecohydrology of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Maxwell C. Wilson et al.   AMBIO

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

(2014) Maria A. Tsiafouli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Are there links between responses of soil microbes and ecosystem functioning to elevated CO2, N deposition and warming? A global perspective

(2014) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Links between plant and fungal communities across a deforestation chronosequence in the Amazon rainforest

(2014) Rebecca C Mueller et al.   ISME Journal

Soil biota enhance agricultural sustainability by improving crop yield, nutrient uptake and reducing nitrogen leaching losses

(2014) S. Franz Bender et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predation on invasive land gastropods by a Neotropical land planarian

(2014) Piter Kehoma Boll et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

(2014) C. Wagg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

(2014) K. S. Ramirez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Colonization and Recovery of Invertebrate Ecosystem Engineers during Prairie Restoration

(2014) Ben R. Wodika et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Relationships between biodiversity and biological control in agroecosystems: Current status and future challenges

(2013) David W. Crowder et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Recent Advances in Our Understanding of the Environmental, Epidemiological, Immunological, and Clinical Dimensions of Coccidioidomycosis

(2013) C. Nguyen et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Predictable bacterial composition and hydrocarbon degradation in Arctic soils following diesel and nutrient disturbance

(2013) Terrence H Bell et al.   ISME Journal

Reduced Nitrogen Losses after Conversion of Row Crop Agriculture to Perennial Biofuel Crops

(2013) Candice M. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Digging the New York City Skyline: Soil Fungal Communities in Green Roofs and City Parks

(2013) Krista L. McGuire et al.   PLoS One

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

(2013) F. T. de Vries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earthworms facilitate carbon sequestration through unequal amplification of carbon stabilization compared with mineralization

(2013) Weixin Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Greenhouse-gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms

(2013) Ingrid M. Lubbers et al.   Nature Climate Change

Land-use and land-management change: relationships with earthworm and fungi communities and soil structural properties

(2013) David J Spurgeon et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

A review of fauna in mine rehabilitation in Australia: Current state and future directions

(2012) Romane H. Cristescu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Perspectives of plant-associated microbes in heavy metal phytoremediation

(2012) M. Rajkumar et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Decomposer diversity and identity influence plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning

(2012) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Variable and complex food web structures revealed by exploring missing trophic links between birds and biofilm

(2012) Tomohiro Kuwae et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Farmer knowledge of the relationships among soil macrofauna, soil quality and tree species in a smallholder agroforestry system of western Honduras

(2012) N. Pauli et al.   GEODERMA

Consistent effects of nitrogen amendments on soil microbial communities and processes across biomes

(2012) Kelly S. Ramirez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities

(2012) J. L. M. Rodrigues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water Dynamics of the Root Zone: Rhizosphere Biophysics and Its Control on Soil Hydrology

(2012) A.G. Bengough   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Effects of Ground-Dwelling Beetle Burrows on Infiltration Patterns and Pore Structure of Initial Soil Surfaces

(2012) Annika Badorreck et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Linking soil biodiversity and agricultural soil management

(2012) Sören Thiele-Bruhn et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil

(2012) Joshua P. Schimel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Agricultural landscapes and biodiversity in China

(2011) Yunhui Liu et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Belowground biodiversity effects of plant symbionts support aboveground productivity

(2011) Cameron Wagg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Insect rarity, extinction and conservation in urban Rome (Italy): a 120-year-long study of tenebrionid beetles

(2011) SIMONE FATTORINI   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Ants as Indicators of the Success of Rehabilitation Efforts in Deposits of Gold Mining Tailings

(2011) Carla R. Ribas et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Microbial Community Structure and Denitrification in a Wetland Mitigation Bank

(2010) A. L. Peralta et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Soil biota community structure and abundance under agricultural intensification and extensification

(2010) Maria B. Postma-Blaauw et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

(2010) Steven D. Allison et al.   Nature Geoscience

Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia

(2010) Doyle McKey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Negative effects of no-till on soil macrofauna and litter decomposition in Argentina as compared with natural grasslands

(2010) Anahí Domínguez et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Soil texture affects soil microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration

(2010) Elizabeth M. Bach et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The ecology of Bacillus anthracis

(2009) Martin Hugh-Jones et al.   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

Ecosystem Properties of Urban Land Covers at the Aboveground–Belowground Interface

(2008) Loren B. Byrne et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation

(2008) G. Kindermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE