"Our work highlights that most of the diversity found in soil remains ... while others prefer to consume other soil arthropods and protozoa. Their value to the garden is in converting nitrogen ...

Protozoa are essential organisms in soil ... Our results suggest that the soil protozoan diversity per se is largely resilient to the levels of drought expected from the climate change scenarios ...

What we call it matters. Dirt commands no respect, nor does it call for care and protection. Dirt can, at best, be ignored.

The matrix of living creatures that recycle plant and animal life is incredibly complex, with bacteria, protozoa ... reduce the diversity of microbes, increase the complexity of their relationships, ...

Soil protozoa are known to promote plant growth ... In conclusion, protozoan grazing rapidly and significantly affected the diversity, activity and function of rhizosphere bacteria.

protozoa, fungi, and animals. In natural plant communities, diversity is maintained by limits set on each plant by itself. This involves a detrimental effect of self-DNA (DNA from the same species ...

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Regulatory frameworks are another major force accelerating change in the herbicides sector. Policies like the European Green ...

Domeignoz-Horta and senior author Kristen DeAngelis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that shifts in the diversity of soil microbial communities can change the soil's ability to ...

They play a critical role in ecological processes like the decomposition of organic matter, nutrient recycling, soil aggregation, and even the control of pathogens. Their abundance and diversity ...

Using a genetic analysis technique known as DNA metabarcoding, the researchers discovered a broad range of invertebrates within this soil. The diversity was high, which is comparable with that of ...