Ohio State Extension educator Heather Neikirk explains how the ecosystems within healthy soil work to keep it healthy.

17. The Weeds You Need Many pesky weeds can also be excellent medicine. Common weeds like honeysuckle, Japanese knotweed, and mimosa tree have traditional herbal uses. Unlike woodland medicinals ...

The Agricultural Land Management Division (ALMD) is encouraging stakeholders in the agricultural sector to focus their ...

"Our focus was on the energy cycles in the soil food web—meaning the energy that is passed on from decomposers and herbivores to small predators," says co-author Professor Nico Eisenhauer from iDiv.

"Our findings show the potential benefits of less intensive and more sustainable land management for the functioning of soil food webs—both today and in a changing climate," says the first ...

They analyzed how warming, changing precipitation patterns, and different levels of agricultural management affected energy ...

The study investigated how management of grasslands across northern England modifies the transfer of recently photosynthesised carbon by plants to roots and soil organisms and the transfer of soil ...