Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

Soil microbes, the main driving force of terrestrial biogeochemical cycles, facilitate soil
organic matter turnover. However, the influence of the soil fauna on microbial communities …

Soil organisms have an important role in aboveground community dynamics and ecosystem
functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, most studies have considered soil biota as a …

Fauna is highly abundant and diverse in soils worldwide, but surprisingly little is known
about how it affects soil organic matter stabilization. Here, we review how the ecological …

Microplastics are recognized as an emerging contaminant worldwide. Although
microplastics have been shown to strongly affect organisms in aquatic environments, less is …

Boreal forests harbour diverse fungal communities with decisive roles in decomposition and
plant nutrition. Although changes in boreal plant communities along gradients in soil acidity …

The diversity and habitat requirements of invertebrates associated with dead wood have
been the subjects of hundreds of studies in recent years but we still know very little about the …

Decomposition of organic material by soil microbes generates an annual global release of
50–75 Pg carbon to the atmosphere,∼ 7.5–9 times that of anthropogenic emissions …

Forest soils represent important terrestrial carbon (C) pools where C is primarily fixed in the
plant-derived biomass but it flows further through the biomass of fungi and bacteria before it …