Grasslands store approximately one third of the global terrestrial carbon stocks and can act
as an important soil carbon sink. Recent studies show that plant diversity increases soil …

The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

Agriculturally degraded and abandoned lands can remove atmospheric CO2 and sequester
it as soil organic matter during natural succession. However, this process may be slow …

Species‐rich plant communities have been shown to be more productive and to exhibit
increased long‐term soil organic carbon (SOC) storage. Soil microorganisms are central to …

Despite evidence from experimental grasslands that plant diversity increases biomass
production and soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, it remains unclear whether this is true in …

Iron (Fe) minerals play an important role in stabilizing soil organic carbon (SOC). Fe-
mediated SOC protection is mainly achieved through adsorption, co-precipitation, or …

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 …

Soils are important for ecosystem functioning and service provisioning. Soil communities
and their functions, in turn, are strongly promoted by plant diversity, and such positive effects …

Plant diversity strongly influences ecosystem functions and services, such as soil carbon
storage. However, the mechanisms underlying the positive plant diversity effects on soil …

Intercrop** is a farming practice involving two or more crop species, or genotypes,
growing together and coexisting for a time. On the fringes of modern intensive agriculture …