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With the worms: Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Mark A Bradford1, John E Newington
1NERC Centre for Population Biology, Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, UK. m.a.bradford@ic.ac.uk
Biologist (London, England)
|July 5, 2002
Abstract:
The role of soil as a carbon sink, nutrient recycler and pollutant remover is becoming increasingly apparent. But it is the animals and microbes that live in the soil that enable all these activities. Do we know enough about these systems to prevent permanent damage?