Trophic interactions play a vital role in soil functioning and are increasingly considered as
important drivers of the soil microbiome and biogeochemical cycles. In the last decade …

Healthy soils that contain an active microbiome and food web are critical to sustainably
produce food for a growing global human population. Many studies have focussed on the …

Soil microbial communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning because they play
important roles in carbon and nitrogen cycling. Still, we know little about how soil microbial …

It is increasingly recognized that the biodiversity in agroecosystems deliver significant
ecosystem services to agricultural production such as biological control of pests …

For decades, the term “rhizosphere fauna” has been used as a synonym to denote
agricultural pests among root herbivores, mainly nematodes and insect larvae. We want to …

Saprotrophic fungi are key regulators of nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. They are
the primary agents of plant litter decomposition and their hyphal networks, which grow …

Soil fauna is crucial to soil formation, litter decomposition, nutrient cycling, biotic regulation,
and for promoting plant growth. Yet soil organisms remain underrepresented in soil …

Dispersal of mycorrhizal fungi via animals and the importance for the interacting partners' life
history as well as for ecosystems is an understudied topic. In this review, we describe the …

Dispersal is a critical ecological process that modulates gene flow and contributes to the
maintenance of genetic and taxonomic diversity within ecosystems. Despite an increasing …

Soils and their biota have been studied by a variety of observational and experimental
methods that have allowed biologists to infer their structural and functional interactions …