Producers spot healthy soil through diverse ground cover, beneficial insects, earthworms and lab tests measuring microbial ...
Massive endeavor including Hopkins researchers and students aims to understand the planet's most biodiverse habitats ...
The input of fresh organic matter, and the induced priming effect (PE), has long been recognized as a critical regulator of ...
A new study reveals that invasive plants are reshaping soil microbial communities across the U.S., making them more uniform and altering how ecosystems function. Invasive plants are doing more than ...
Tufts scientists say soil, holding 80 percent of Earth’s carbon, releases increasing amounts of greenhouse gases as droughts trigger desiccation cracks in soils The accuracy of climate models depends ...
The cause-effect sequence or “feedback” between plants and their soil microbial communities plays an important role in structuring plant communities. To predict this synergistic coexistence, ...
Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...