A healthy soil acts as a dynamic living system that delivers multiple ecosystem services,
such as sustaining water quality and plant productivity, controlling soil nutrient recycling …

Abstract Service crops are crops grown with the aim of providing non-marketed ecosystem
services, ie differing from food, fiber and fuel production. Vineyard soils face various …

Soil quality is threatened by the increase in human population and by the fact that most of
the cultivable land is intensively used. The initial interest in this topic focused on defining soil …

Metabolic footprints provide metrics for the magnitudes of ecosystem functions and services
provided by component organisms of the soil food web. Nematodes occupy various trophic …

This review by a multidisciplinary team maps key components and emerging connections
within the intellectual landscape of agroecology. We attempt to extend and preview …

The productivist model implemented after the second world war has succeeded in improving
production to meet growing demands for food, but it has also deeply affected soil …

The soil provides a great variety of microhabitats for myriad organisms of different size,
physiological activity, behavior and ecosystem function. Besides abundance of participating …

As carbon and energy flow through the soil food web they are depleted by the metabolic and
production functions of organisms. To be sustained, a “long” food web, with a large biomass …

The structure of soil nematode assemblages was assessed in field plots in the San Joaquin
Valley of California which have 16-year management system histories. Attributes of the …

Soil biota are intimately tied to plant communities through herbivory and symbiosis and
indirectly by the decomposition of dead organic plant material. Through both roots and …