HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-03: Soil biodiversity and its contribution to ecosystem services

Soils underpin the delivery of a range of ecosystem services which are essential for the environmental, social and economic wellbeing of people. Many of these services such as the production of biomass for food and other uses, removal of pollutants, support of above-ground biodiversity (e.g. farmland birds), provision of soil structure, nutrient cycling and carbon storage depend on the activities of a fascinating and complex network of soil organisms such as insects, invertebrates, bacterial and fungal organisms. While our knowledge about individual components of soil biodiversity has significantly [...]