📄 New paper out in @journalofecology.bsky.social ...where we show an unexpectedly high variation in litter decomposition rates within a 9-ha forest, despite keeping macroclimate, vegetation and litter quality constant! 🍃🍂🦠🪱🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‼️In case you missed our article published during the summer break: nature.com/articles/s41... The mechanisms underlying #plant-diversity effects on #soil #C remain elusive. We argue that #POM + #MAOM are key to disentangling these effects. @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

➡️Here's also a summary of our article on how #plant-diversity effects on #soil #C storage differ across #ecosystems depending on #POM+#MAOM: www.idiv.de/plant-divers... Article doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natcomms.nature.com @idiv-research.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz @akademievedcr.bsky.social

thinking about plant diversity + soil organic matter with Šárka & Gerrit was fun! "We hypothesize that: (i) net effects of plant diversity on C contents are the most positive, and result in accrual of both POM and MAOM, for soils whose C storage is limited primarily by plant inputs, and ..."

‼️Fresh out @natcomms.nature.com Un(der)explored links between #plant #diversity and #POM and #MAOM in soil nature.com/articles/s41... @idiv-research.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @akademievedcr.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz @kevin-e-mueller.bsky.social

‼️New in @SoilBiolBiochem authors.elsevier.com/c/1kyZz8g13f... We show that marcescent 🍃 #leaves pre-exposed to☀️#radiation and 🌧️precipitation (common for beech and oak) #decompose quicker in 6 months than non-exposed leaves in 12 months. @akademievedcr.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz

📢 🪱 Earthworms enthusiasts 😁 : The official website for the 13th Symposium on Earthworm Ecology is now live! ✨ 🪱 📅 SAVE THE DATE: August 23-28, 2026 in Wageningen, the Netherlands 🔗 Check it out and stay tuned for updates! event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2 📸Amazing pictures @frankashwood.bsky.social

📣We're currently recruiting a soil biology postdoc interested in nutrient cycling in grassland systems at Teagasc Johnstown Castle, Wexford, Ireland with @aaronfoxirl.bsky.social #TeagascJC Further details and link to apply topjobs-teagasc.thehirelab.com/LiveJobs/Job... closing date 13/02/2025

Are you a post-doc interested in monitoring soil health and other dimensions of regenerative agriculture? We have a 4.5 yr position to lead a monitoring programme at 1000 farms across the Netherlands. This is part of a large project on regenerative agriculture. For more details see the link below.

‼️Recently published in @funecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365... We developed a conceptual framework for linking effect traits of #soil #fauna to the transformation of #SOM (including a section on #POM #MAOM😀) with @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al

New paper out in Global Change Biology, led by Marie Sünnemann: Sustainable Land Use Strengthens Microbial & Herbivore Controls in Soil Food Webs in Current and Future Climates onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #GCEF @barnesecodiv.bsky.social @amyntas.bsky.social @benrosenbaum.bsky.social

I am offering a PhD opportunity at University of Edinburgh as part of the E5 DTP. CASE partner: Forest Research On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Application deadline: 6th Jan. Please share with your network. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

‼Now out in @NatureComms doi.org/10.1038/s41467… In our review we show tha#diverse🐛🐌#soilil faunal taxa🐜🪱can fundamentally affect labile and stabilize#SOMOM, with huge research gaps remaining#POMO#MAOMO#earthwormsm#springtailsl#mitese#woodlicec#nematodese#beetlese#snailsls et al.

📣Happy that our review on soil structure formation in the rhizosphere, led by @cwmsoils.bsky.social, is out in the Soil Biology and Biochemistry Journal! This has been a long journey, but we made it 😆! doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📢New paper out: We find in a field experiment that microbial necromass in MAOM is tightly related to microbial diversity but hardly to litter quality. 🔽POM contained high necromass as well.🔽 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📢New paper out: We find in a field experiment that microbial necromass in MAOM is tightly related to microbial diversity but hardly to litter quality. 🔽POM contained high necromass as well.🔽 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📢Soil fauna peeps 🪱 Visit #EGU24 in wonderful #Vienna and submit an abstract to our session: "Linkages Between #Soil Fauna and Biogeochemical Cycles" Deadline: 10 January meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio... @JWvanGroenigen

Soil fauna peeps: please consider submitting an abstract to our #EGU24 session: "Linkages Between #Soil Fauna and Biogeochemical Cycles" Gerrit Angst, Ingrid Lubbers, Robert Bradley meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio... #soilscience @eurogeosciences.bsky.social