The microbes, fungi and creatures that live in soil do the important work of eating dead plants and animals. There are also some soil bacteria that eat actual rock. It’s this array of soil-living ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water ...

While previous studies have looked at particular pesticide classes or types of organisms, this is the first review to incorporate all pesticide types, invertebrates that live or develop in the soil, ...

Both fungi and roundworms are outdone dramatically in turn by still smaller organisms. In a pinch of garden soil, about a gram in weight, live millions of bacteria, representing several thousand ...

Silvia Pressel, a Museum researcher in the Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, says, 'Soil is full of millions of living organisms that interact with one another. These organisms have a major influence ...

Learn about a new phylum of microbes that lives in deep soil, a layer of the Earth that supports water cycling and nutrient ...

It feeds us, captures carbon and provides a home for billions of living creatures ... a magnifying glass. Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water.

Ecologists also study many kinds of environments. For example, ecologists may study microbes living in the soil under your feet or animals and plants in a rain forest or the ocean. The many ...

Soil organic matter is composed of soil microbes including bacteria and fungi, decaying material from once-living organisms such as plant and animal tissues, fecal material, and products formed ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert ... term lead to salt levels in the soil that become too high to support ...