Background The soil represents a reservoir that contains at least twice as much carbon as
does the atmosphere, yet (apart from 'root crops') mainly just the above-ground plant …

Toward an attempt to limit the global warming to 2° C, there has been an increasing
emphasis on devising suitable policies and practices for entrapment and storage of …

Invertebrates play significant, but largely ignored, roles in the delivery of ecosystem services
by soils at plot and landscape scales. They participate actively in the interactions that …

Stable soils provide valuable ecosystem services and mechanical soil stability is enhanced
by the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Soil aggregation, which is the major …

Soil organic matter (SOM) is key to maintaining soil fertility, mitigating climate change,
combatting land degradation, and conserving above-and below-ground biodiversity and …

Microbial activity strongly influences the stabilization of soil organic matter (SOM), and is
affected by the abiotic properties within soil aggregates, which tend to differ between land …

Ecosystems are multifunctional and provide humanity with a broad array of vital services.
Effective management of services requires an improved evidence base, identifying the role …

Soil aggregation and its effects on soil C storage have been addressed in thousands of
research articles over the last 40 years. Research has been mostly focused on the …

Soil aggregation is a major ecosystem process that can be impacted by intensified land use
directly through soil disturbances, or indirectly through impacts on biotic and abiotic factors …

Maintaining the productivity of tropical pastures is a major challenge for the sustainable
management of tropical landscapes around the globe. To address this issue, we examined …