Ensuring food security in an environmentally sustainable way is a global challenge. To
achieve this agriculture productivity requires increasing by 70% under increasingly harsh …

Soils are the fundament of terrestrial ecosystems. Across the globe we find different soil
types with different properties resulting from the interacting soil forming factors: parent …

Soil provides a multitude of services that are essential to a healthily functioning biosphere
and continuity of the human race, such as feeding the growing human population and the …

Climate change is a global issue threatening agricultural production and human survival.
However, agriculture sector is a major source of global greenhouse gases (GHGs) …

Diversity loss has been shown to change the soil community; however, little is known about
long-term consequences and underlying mechanisms. Here, we investigated how nematode …

Belowground biodiversity distribution does not necessarily reflect aboveground biodiversity
patterns, but maps of soil biodiversity remain scarce because of limited data availability …

Soil piping is a widespread, although often overlooked land degradation process. So far,
subsurface soil erosion studies have been focused on the importance of soil piping in …

The continual loss and impairment of soil ecosystem services (SES) across the globe calls
for a fundamental reconsideration of soil governance mechanisms. This critical synthesis …

Agriculture faces several challenges, eg:(i) increasing crop production to meet the rising
global demand for agricultural products,(ii) producing crops sustainably to preserve …

Industrial and agricultural activities result in the direct release of contaminants into soil,
which alters and destructs the habitats of soil biota. Clarifying the effects of soil …