Transdisciplinary approaches that provide holistic views are essential to properly
understand soil processes and the importance of soil to society and will be crucial in the …

Pasture-based production systems represent a significant sustainable supplier of animal
source foods worldwide. For such systems, mounting evidence highlights the importance of …

Microbial taxa within complex ecological networks can be classified by their universal roles
based on their level of connectivity with other taxa. Highly connected taxa within an …

Strong associations exist between microbial communities and soil functions in natural
ecosystems at large spatial scales; however, it is unclear whether these linkages are …

Knowledge of the agricultural soil microbiota, of the microbial consortia that comprise it, and
the promotion of agricultural practices that maintain and encourage them, is a promising way …

Various biodiversity attributes contribute to ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) in different
ways in terrestrial ecosystems. The relative influence of biodiversity and abiotic factors in …

Grasslands provide a number of ecosystem services for human society. Degradation of
grasslands results in the loss of biodiversity and leads to the deterioration of ecosystem …

Motivation and aim Soil biodiversity is central to ecosystem function and services. It
represents most of terrestrial biodiversity and at least a quarter of all biodiversity on Earth …

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP 2014–2020) on soil management points to the
combination of sustainable food production with environmental protection, reduction of CO2 …

The diversity and structure of plant and soil microbial communities are influenced by
temporal variability in environmental conditions (eg, precipitation); however, it is unclear …