Grassland ecology represents one of the most critical fields for understanding biodiversity maintenance, climate regulation, and sustainable land ...

The most efficient way for a plant to gather nutrition is through the soil food web and from microorganisms and from the ...

Distributed in the U.S.A. by F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia. METHODS FOR STUDYING THE ECOLOGY OF SOIL MICROORGANISMS EDITED BY D PARKINSON T R G GRAY AND S T WILLIAMS ...

The paper states that the enhanced and indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides has led to the depletion of soil fertility, ...

Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath us is packed with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)—tiny codes that allow ...

A study conducted in the Brazilian state of Amazonas has demonstrated that small amounts of Amazonian dark earth (ADE)—an anthropogenic soil created by ancient Amazonian populations—can increase the ...

A Caltech-led study published in Nature Microbiology found that drought conditions increase the abundance of antibiotic-resistant microbes in soil, establishing a direct link between climate-driven ...

Beneath our feet lies a hidden pharmaceutical frontier: soil microbes are yielding new antibiotic leads just as scientists race to outpace the global rise of antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial ...