Microorganisms are immense in nature and exist in every imaginable ecological niche,
performing a wide range of metabolic processes. Unfortunately, using traditional …

Almost 30 years ago, a distinguished soil physical‐chemist, Grant W. Thomas, voiced
serious concern about what he saw in the soil science literature as more a preoccupation …

This paper presents a vegetal political ecology of weeds. Weeds have barely been analysed
in the burgeoning field of 'more-than-human'scholarship, this despite their ubiquity and …

As environmental matters, soils have been an object of inquiry primarily for the natural
sciences, with social scientists and environmental humanities scholars occupied with the …

The North Central Education and Research Activity Committee (NCERA-59) was formed in
1952 to address how soil organic matter formation and management practices affect soil …

With soils increasingly seen as living ecosystems, the understanding of the relationship
between soils and agricultural labor is changing. A shift from working the soil to working with …

Over the last few years, several researchers working on the development of
“biogeochemical” or “ecosystem-scale” models of soil carbon dynamics have reported …

Demands for drastically reducing pesticide use call for different perspectives and narratives
that can open new understandings of pesticide use and enact new action plans …

Microbes are increasingly central to visions of sustainable and healthy futures, including in
farming movements such as regenerative agriculture. In social science and environmental …

Soil microbial ecology is a relatively young research field that became established around
the middle of the 20th century and has grown considerably since then. We analyze two …