title: With the worms: Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
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?
authors.affiliation: NERC Centre for Population Biology, Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, UK. m.a.bradford@ic.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bradford
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Newington
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods / Q000502:physiology*; D018533:Biomass; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis; D017753:Ecosystem; D009835:Oligochaeta / Q000502:physiology*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide