Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

The world's longest-running soil warming experiment has revealed an unexpected climate concern. After nearly four decades, ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA – The cause-effect sequence or “feedback” between plants and their soil microbial communities plays an important role in structuring plant communities. To predict this synergistic ...

Some gardens explode with life while others struggle, and the difference almost always starts underground. Soil holds secrets, and those secrets decide whether plants thrive, barely survive, or give ...

Solving this problem is critical if we want to understand how soil microbiomes adapt to ever-changing environmental conditions and climate change. New research from the University of Chicago shows ...