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Soil health: Assessing and monitoring using soil biology

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Soil health: Assessing and monitoring using soil biology Lynette Abbott from The University of Western Australia, focuses again on soil health, this time by assessing and monitoring using soil biological indicators. There is considerable interest in monitoring and quantifying soil biology as an indicator of soil health. (1) However, this is a complex task because of (i) the extreme diversity of soil organisms (2), (ii) the wide range of processes they participate in within soil, (iii) their heterogeneous distribution within the soil profile, (iv) their heterogeneous distribution within the soil matrix, and (v) because their abundance and activity can be very responsive to their surroundings.

Source: Open Access Government

DOI: 10.56367/oag-048-11552

Author: Lynette Abbott

Institution: The University of Western Australia

Language: English

Topic: Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australian Government