City parks and gardens support a rich and diverse community of soil organisms including bacteria, fungi, protists and invertebrates, which often go unnoticed compared with eye-catching plants and ...

Though it might seem inanimate, the soil under our feet is very much alive. It's filled with countless microorganisms actively breaking down organic matter, like fallen leaves and plants, and ...

Back in my hippy-dippy days of the late 1960s and early ’70s, I was a devotee of the organic gardening movement with subscriptions to Rodale’s Organic Gardening magazine along with Prevention and ...

The UN climate summit, COP30, is currently taking place in Belém, Brazil, a region with some of the most carbon-dense soils ...

A new study of shrublands in Southwest Australia has identified how plant species can successfully coexist while competing for space and limited resources. A team of international researchers, ...

Intraspecific variation in plants can affect soil organisms. However, little is known about whether the magnitude of the effect depends on the degree of interaction with the roots. We analyzed effects ...

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Ecologically significant symbiotic associations are frequently studied in isolation, but such studies of two-way interactions cannot always predict the responses of organisms in a community setting.

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