Microbial life represents the majority of Earth's biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from
medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential …

Grasslands are ubiquitous globally, and their conservation and restoration are critical to
combat both the biodiversity and climate crises. There is increasing interest in implementing …

Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Microbial consortium inoculation has been proposed as a natural-based strategy to
safeguard multiple ecosystem services. Still, its observed effects and comparisons to single …

There has never been a more pressing and opportune time for science and practice to
collaborate towards restoration of the world's forests. Multiple uncertainties remain for …

Priority effects refer to the order or timing of species arrival, including how species that arrive
early at a site either positively or negatively affect establishment, growth, or reproduction of …

Seed-based restoration often experiences poor success due to a range of edaphic and
biotic issues. Seed enhancement technologies (SETs) are a novel approach that can …

There is a direct link between the increasing human population and soil degradation that
raises current and future food security concerns. Soil amelioration using beneficial …

Restoring ecosystems has been a key strategy to combat land degradation and reverse
losses in biodiversity. Because interactions between communities above and below the …

Crop yield loss caused by phytopathogens has a massive impact on global economy. For
over a century, agrochemicals have been used for plant disease management; however, the …