When Bill Robertson, a soil scientist at the University of Arkansas, wants to check whether a field is healthy, he doesn’t reach for some high-tech gadget. He grabs a pair of men’s 100 percent ...

Community ecologists investigated the interactive effects of rising temperatures and a common livestock antibiotic on soil microbes. The research team found that heat and antibiotics disrupt soil ...

Traditional farming practices can undervalue soil health post-harvest, but regenerative approaches prioritize maintaining an active and diverse microbial community, even in the winter.

In a new study, researchers have determined through both statistical analysis and in experiments that soil pH is a driver of microbial community composition – but that the need to address ...

Communities of microbes (microbiomes), particularly in soils, can be startlingly diverse, with as many as 10,000 species in just a cup of material. Scientists are working to understand how microbiomes ...

In a remarkable advancement for soil science, researchers from Japan have developed a novel method for estimating microbial biomass using water-extractable organic matter (WEOM) from air-dried soils.

You can buy compost at a gardening center, of course, but learning to how to compost at home brings additional benefits.

Rainfall can have dramatic effects on the microbial communities living in urban lakes, a new paper published in the Journal ...

The soil microbial community regulates many critical agroecosystems services including nutrient cycling, pathogen dynamics, and pollutant detoxification. Moreover, some soil microbes can form intimate ...

Soil microbiota transplanted from more stressful environmental conditions – drought or excessive heat or cold, for example – can enhance tree tolerance to changing climates, researchers report.