Researchers from Japan have achieved an incredible advancement in soil science, according to a summary posted on Phys.org.

It was nothing short of "groundbreaking" research—literally. Scientists conducted the first-ever study of an island's soil ...

Vicky Waymouth, Rebecca E. Miller, Fiona Ede, Andrew Bissett, Cristina Aponte, Variation in soil microbial communities, Plant Ecology, Vol. 221, No. 9, Special Issue: Applying Microbial Community ...

Microbial Ecology, Vol. 78, No. 3 (October 2019), pp. 753-763 (11 pages) Soil microbiota play important and diverse roles in agricultural crop nutrition and productivity. Yet, despite increasing ...

A forest fire sweeps everything in its path. It drastically alters the soil environment, causing extreme temperatures, ...

In soil, high microbial fluctuation leads to more carbon emissions Modeling shows fluctuating soil microbial populations impact how much carbon is released from soil Date: May 10, 2021 Source: San ...

Marco Mechan-Llontop and Samuel Barnett work at a microbial sampling site near the Centralia mine fire in October 2021, when they were both postdoctoral scholars in the Shade lab at Michigan State ...

That’s because microbial diversity is necessary to promote nutrient uptake and make it easier for plants to get essential soil minerals and micronutrients. [Related: Bacteria wars are raging in ...

During the colder months, soil freezes over, preventing air diffusion and creating anaerobic conditions for the microbial communities. This occurrence alters the soil community structure.