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Job opportunity: Post-Doctoral Fellow – Soil Fauna – Murdoch University
The Post-Doctoral Fellow role is to identify soil faunal communities, reveal their interactions with soil microorganisms, and decipher their roles in regulating nitrogen and phosphorus cycles using combined morphological identification, advanced stable isotope tracing technique, and state-of-the-art molecular approaches.
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CSIRO launches ANSIS: A national data and information tool for soil
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has launched a new tool that will help Australia sustainably manage a critical natural resource which sustains lives and livelihoods.
When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
Around the world, land that today is home to hundreds of millions of people was under water.
Research highlights importance of herbicide strategy following strategic deep tillage
DPIRD Grains Convo: Grain growers undertaking deep tillage to overcome soil constraints will need to re-evaluate their herbicide strategy to capture potential yield benefits.
More than half of Earth’s species live in soil, study finds
Soil estimated to be home to 90% of world’s fungi, 85% of plants and more than 50% of bacteria, making it the world’s most species-rich habitat.