Pesticides are extensively used in modern agriculture and are an effective and economical
way to enhance the yield quality and quantity, thus ensuring food security for the ever …

Soil amendment with biochar is evaluated globally as a means to improve soil fertility and to
mitigate climate change. However, the effects of biochar on soil biota have received much …

Soil plays a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. In the 1990s ecosystem services (ES)
research focused on develo** the concept and framework and only a few studies linked …

The issue of microplastic pollution emerged from the marine environment, but the terrestrial
environment is estimated to receive annually 4–23 times more plastic wastes. Microplastic …

Biochars are biological residues combusted under low oxygen conditions, resulting in a
porous, low density carbon rich material. Their large surface areas and cation exchange …

Heavy metals are released into the environment by both anthropogenic and natural sources.
Highly reactive and often toxic at low concentrations, they may enter soils and groundwater …

During the last 50 years, agricultural intensification has caused many wild plant and animal
species to go extinct regionally or nationally and has profoundly changed the functioning of …

While aboveground biodiversity has been widely studied, how microbial biodiversity
responds to increasing nitrogen (N) deposition is still unclear. Here we conducted a meta …

Invertebrates play significant, but largely ignored, roles in the delivery of ecosystem services
by soils at plot and landscape scales. They participate actively in the interactions that …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …