Lead author Syrie Hermans (University of Auckland) says soil quality is the ability of soil to function as a part of the wider ecosystem: maintaining the quality of air and water while supporting plant and animal productivity. Agricultural and pastoral ecosystems need high quality soils to be sustainable, and those soils are maintained by resident […]
Tag: Soil
Studying the response of the forest soil microbiota to kauri dieback
Alexa Byers writes about her PhD research into kauri dieback and soil microbiota