Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout
much of the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely been focused on reducing …

Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

In this FORUM paper we discuss how soil scientists can help to reach the recently adopted
UN Sustainable Development Goals in the most effective manner. Soil science, as a land …

Deciphering microbiota functions is crucial to predict ecosystem sustainability in response to
global change. High-throughput sequencing at the individual or community level has …

Soils and crops in orchard agrosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change and
environmental stresses. In many orchard soils, soil biodiversity and the ecosystem services it …

The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented
opportunities to further unravel bacterial biodiversity and its worldwide role from human …

To the Editor—Soil biodiversity represents a major terrestrial biodiversity pool, supports key
ecosystem services and is under pressure from human activities 1. Yet soil biodiversity has …

Genome-enabled technologies have supported a dramatic increase in our ability to study
microbial communities in environments and hosts. Taking stock of previously funded …

Soils and crops are particularly vulnerable to climate change and environmental stresses. In
many agrosystems, soil biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by soils are under …

Global change is affecting soil biodiversity and functioning across all terrestrial ecosystems.
Still, much is unknown about how soil biodiversity and function will change in the future in …