🌳 New paper out! We synthesized 26 meta-analyses on agroforestry & soil health with bias correction. Water regulation +71%, chemical quality +59% — but SOC gains likely overstated by conventional syntheses. Fantastic work by PhD candidate Camille Rubeaud!

Global Bias‐Aware Synthesis of Meta‐Analyses Reveals Agroforestry's Potential for Improving Soil Health

This second-order meta-analysis synthesizes evidence across diverse agroforestry systems (silvoarable, silvopastoral, tree-landscape features, and perennial shaded systems) to assess their effects on...

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🌱 opportunity in soil science & modelling! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in bioeconomic modelling of soil compaction. Work at the interface of soil health, agriculture, and decision-making. 👉 Join us and help improve soil management and sustainability. 🔗 jobs.admin.ch/job-vacancie...

Postdoctoral researcher in Bioeconomical modelling of soil compaction - Agroscope

Agroscope is looking for Postdoctoral researcher in Bioeconomical modelling of soil compaction

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📣Delighted to be sharing this new paper by Roelof Zwaan & other SBL colleagues. In this paper they evaluated different approaches for calculating single indices of soil health and show that the final numbers are often in disagreement for the same site! Here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Soil Health Indices in Disagreement: A Systematic Review and Comparison of Soil Health Assessment Methods

Soil health is commonly understood as the ability of soils to provide multiple ecosystem services such as primary production, climate mitigation, and …

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Congrats to Laura Medici on her PhD @fhnw.ch🎓 Her work shows that pesticide spray plans decline soil fungal diversity and litter decomposition emerged as the most sensitive soil functional indicator, while overall responses were relatively low 🌱 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ten grassland and arable soils show variable microbial responses to realistic pesticide mixtures

Agricultural soils are often exposed to cocktails of pesticides to reduce pest-related yield losses, yet the ecological impact of complex, high-intens…

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🌱 Misato Toda's new paper: Soil microbes adapt to farming history & fertilizer type, but these changes don't improve plant N uptake. Microbes are versatile—but that versatility doesn't not link to function in our experiment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Distinct interaction between management history and nitrogen source drive microbial nitrogen processes in soil

Microbial processes in soil primarily govern nitrogen (N) availability to plants. However, microbial processes can be altered by farming history due i…

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A study conducted by Agroscope and @ethz.ch surveyed the opinions of both farmers and the rest of the population with respect to #AgriculturalPolicy goals, revealing both shared and divergent views 👇

Consensus and Dissension with Respect to Agricultural Policy Goals - Agrarforschung Schweiz

A study conducted by Agroscope and ETH Zurich surveyed the opinions of both farmers and the rest of the population with respect to agricultural policy goals, revealing both shared and divergent views.

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Over 80% of the world’s food comes from family farmers who depend on #HealthySoils. Soils in rural areas remain essential to feed urban populations, sustain farmers’ livelihoods and strengthen global food security. #WorldSoilDay #GreenCities

A big day for European Soils www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres... #SoilHealth

Soil monitoring: Parliament adopts new EU law with better support for farmers | News | European Parliament

The new law will ensure soil is monitored in all EU countries and farmers get better support to improve soil health and soil resilience.

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If you’re looking for a PhD studentship in some really exciting areas of plant science 🌿 take a look at this year’s Sainsbury PhD studentships - you could come and study orchid mycorrhizas 🌸🍄 with me & @garethphoenix.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Apply for a PhD: Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

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A well conducted study and well balanced discussion of CMNs … Mycorrhizal Network and Symbiotic N-Fixer Jointly Enhance the Interplant Nitrogen Sharing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Mycorrhizal Network and Symbiotic N‐Fixer Jointly Enhance the Interplant Nitrogen Sharing

Symbiotic interactions with mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria synergistically enhance nitrogen transfer between plants via mycorrhizal networks. Our synthesis of 15N labeling studies rev...

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What's the latest rate of global warming? Has it accelerated to 0.27°C or to 0.36°C per decade? Statistician Tamino explains why he has more confidence in a *continuous* piecewise linear fit (as in our preprint) rather than a discontinous piecewise linear fit. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/a...

Another Estimate of the Warming Rate

A reader asked about a paper by Forster et al. (2025) in which they state An overall best estimate attributed rate of human-induced warming of 0.27 °C per decade is found for the decade 2015–2024. …

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Congrats Mpumi!

Ecology of Soil Microorganisms@esmmicrobes.bsky.social · last yr.

#esm2025 is proud to publish @isme-microbes.bsky.social award winners: Anna Burns, Nompumemelo Dammie and Agnieszka Rzepczynska. Congrats for the memberships!

Van Rijssel et al. in Science w/ @kylemojo.bsky.social Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality It was more the specific practices (like cover cropping and tillage) that were important www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality

Organic farming is often considered to be more sustainable than conventional farming. However, both farming systems comprise highly variable management practices. In this study, we show that in organi...

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Great to see our call for more realistic pesticide scenarios finally published - nice collaboration with our former PhD student Judith Riedo and @mrillig.bsky.social

Matthias C. Rillig@mrillig.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out with Judith Riedo & @flowalder.bsky.social Beyond Dosage: The Need for More Realistic Research Scenarios to Understand Pesticide Impacts on Agricultural Soils pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Our mission @agroscope.bsky.social 🫛🥔🌾🌱🍃🐄🐖🐏🦠🧫🧀🥩

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🚀 Using data from a 40-year field trial, we show that organic cropping systems not only transform soil biodiversity but also supercharge its metabolic potential for nutrient cycling with lasting consequences for soil C, N, and P stocks. 🌾 #SustainableAgriculture #SoilHealth doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Final version published: Diversity of organic amendments increases soil functions and plant growth Huiying Li et al. in Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #Soil #SoilHealth nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Diversity of organic amendments increases soil functions and plant growth

Management practices, for example, in an agricultural context, are often tested in isolation or in pairwise interaction, but rarely using a higher number of jointly applied practices. In a proof-of-c...

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Die Rendzina ist #BodenDesJahres 2025! Wer mehr über diesen Bodentyp erfahren will besucht unsere Webseite www.boden-des-jahres.ch/de Wir wünschen einen frohen #WorldSoilDay

🌱 Join our Group at Agroscope as a Research Associate in Soil Monitoring! Join our soil monitoring team and help protect our precious resource through data analysis, contaminant research, publications and advising authorities! Apply here: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Wissenschaftliche/-r Mitarbeiter/-in Bodenmonitoring - Agroscope

Agroscope sucht Wissenschaftliche/-r Mitarbeiter/-in Bodenmonitoring

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🧵🌱 A review on how soil tillage impacts ground-nesting bees in arable soils doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... #Bees #SoilHealth #Agriculture #BQBN #Agroscope

New Perspective: "Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web" rdcu.be/dFvnV "The prevalence and potential functions of common mycorrhizal networks have been increasingly capturing the interest of science and society, sometimes leading to hyperbole and misinterpretation." #PlantScience

Great view indeed! Congrats Konrad 🎉

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Now our article is finally out in the proper version 🎉 bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... To celebrate, some pics from sampling and the view while writing @flowalder.bsky.social #Agroscope #soilspectoscopy

Join us for the 2nd LS2_Systems_Biology *Theory across Biology* workshop #TaB2024 in Bern on 14 June 2024. From molecules to ecosystems. No PPTs, black board only! Flipcharts instead of posters! For theorists *and* experimentalists. shorturl.at/hDST1

We are recruiting! Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of plant-microbiome signaling, and/or know someone who might, please apply and/or spread the message! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

How landscape evolution shapes the endemic diversity of Madagascar through topographic changes? phys.org/news/2024-02...

How landscape evolution makes Madagascar a hotspot for plant species diversity

Madagascar is home to more than 11,000 plant species, 80% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. A recent study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and ETH Zu...

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🚨3- Year PostDoc Position 🌱 Soil organic matter (SOM) is key for soil health & agroecosystem productivity. With humusbilanz.ch, Agroscope supports CH farmers in SOM management. The projects aims at updating the tool with modern models & data for informed soil management decisions.