Richard D. Bardgett

TL;DR: In this article, the roles of resource availability, nutrient stoichiometry, and soil abiotic factors in driving belowground biodiversity across 16 soil chronosequences (from centuries to millennia) spanning a wide range of globally distributed ecosystem types.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured microbial properties and nematode abundance along a gradient of increasing Cu, Cr, and As concentrations (50-1300 mg Cr kg-1) in the top 5 cm of a pasture soil contaminated by runoff of preserving liquor from an adjacent timber treatment plant.

TL;DR: The influence of heavy metal contamination on the efficiency of conversion of fresh substrates into new microbial biomass in a pasture soil was examined in this paper, where three soils covering a range of chromium, copper and arsenic concentrations, and an uncontaminated control soil, were amended with [U-14C]glucose and incubated for 28 days.

TL;DR: The Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas (GSBA) as discussed by the authors is an effort to assess life below ground, and highlights the need to improve soil conservation and the diversity of life within it.

TL;DR: This unique long-term study provides new insights into the impact of precipitation changes on the soil microbiome and associated ecosystem functioning in a water‐limited pine forest ecosystem and improves the understanding of the persistency of long‐term soil carbon stocks in a changing climate.