Farmers are no longer content with generic blends. Instead, they are seeking liquid fertilizers that can be fine-tuned down ...

With the access we now have to technology across agriculture, applying the major principles of restoring soil health has ...

In this lab, students measure the diversity of soil invertebrates that are collected from areas with different vegetation composition or cover, depending on the questions and hypothesis that the ...

François Teste of the University of Western Australia and IMASL-CONICET/UNSL in San Luis, Argentina, and colleagues used their resulting data to predict how plant-soil feedback relationships might ...

Microbial ecosystems—for example, in seawater, the soil or in the human gut—are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often ...

The study, by researchers at the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth U.S. and the University of Maryland, is the largest, most comprehensive review of the impacts of agricultural ...

This study is the largest, most comprehensive review ever conducted of agricultural pesticides’ impacts on soil organisms. Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, it was coauthored by ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “This is an excellent work [that] demonstrates the vast diversity of soil community, most of which remained undescribed,” microbial ecologist ...

there's a worry that decreased diversity itself has a cost," Koskella said. Increased carbon is generally beneficial to soil, but if it locks up other minerals — ones longer-lasting compounds ...

Referring back to Christine Jones‘ work, he explains that the benefits of diversity for soil health become truly evident once you reach seven plant families in the field. In addition to the ...