Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial ...

Wildfires may be releasing more planet-warming carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals than previously anticipated — by changing the composition of the soil systems that they burn, a new study has found.

Aims While fungi are key drivers of the carbon cycle and obligate symbionts of trees, the link between plant-fungal interactions and landscape vegetation changes has been largely overlooked. Our aim ...

Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: they remove large quantities of methane – a powerful ...

Successful spring gardening starts long before the plants go into the ground. In east Idaho, gardeners commonly work with ...

In order to improve soil heath and organic matter, vegetable gardeners should aim to have actively growing plants in the garden for 10 or eleven months each year. This is desirable because organisms ...