Soil fungi are a key constituent of global biodiversity and play a pivotal role in
agroecosystems. How arable farming affects soil fungal biogeography and whether it has a …

Forest soils harbor hyper-diverse microbial communities which fundamentally regulate
carbon and nutrient cycling across the globe. Directly testing hypotheses on how …

For more than a decade, researchers on all continents have been engaged in an initiative to
simultaneously produce bioenergy, remove excess carbon (C) from the atmosphere and …

The soil microbiome is recognized as an essential component of healthy soils. Viruses are
also diverse and abundant in soils, but their roles in soil systems remain unclear. Here we …

Biocultural diversity is the ever-evolving and irreplaceable sum total of all living organisms
inhabiting the Earth. It plays a significant role in sustainable productivity and ecosystem …

Urbanization is threatening terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Nematodes, as
one of the most abundant animals on Earth, play diverse roles within soil food webs and …

The globally distributed basidiomycete genus Armillaria includes wood decomposers that
can act as opportunistic parasites, causing deadly root rot on woody plants. To test whether …

Humans have substantially transformed the global land surface, resulting in the decline in
variation in biotic communities across scales, a phenomenon known as “biological …

Protists are major actors of soil communities and play key roles in shaping food webs,
community assembly, and ecosystem processes, yet their functional diversity is …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) often correlate positively with BEF studies
focusing mostly on plant diversity manipulations. Plant performance is directly and indirectly …