That’s before you even count the miles of fungal hyphae also living there. The microbes, fungi and creatures that live in soil do the important work of eating dead plants and animals. There are also ...

captures carbon and provides a home for billions of living creatures. Some you can see and some that are so small you need a magnifying glass. Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead ...

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 ...

Soil and sediment lock away more CO2 than thought: study Soil, river sediment and dead vegetation lock away ... has been the distribution between living vegetation like trees and other plants ...

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

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

This nonliving carbon is derived in particular from the excrement and decomposition of dead plants ... food for soil organisms. While the mechanisms by which carbon accumulates in living biomass ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...