Soil Plant and Land Systems

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Organisation profile

Our soils research brings together the biological, chemical and physical aspects of soil sciences to obtain an integrated understanding of this vital environmental resource. We undertake pure, strategic and applied research with current focus areas including soil erosion and the movement of sediment and contaminants, bioremediation of contaminated land, crop uptake of nutrients and pollutants, crop water use, plant interactions with soil micro-organisms,  and the effects of pollution and climate change on the functioning and biodiversity of soils.

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  • A global database of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids and enzyme activities

    van Galen, L. G., Smith, G. R., Margenot, A. J., Waldrop, M. P., Crowther, T. W., Peay, K. G., Jackson, R. B., Yu, K., Abrahão, A., Ahmed, T. A., Alatalo, J. M., Anslan, S., Anthony, M. A., Araujo, A. S. F., Ascher-Jenull, J., Bach, E. M., Bahram, M., Baker, C. C. M., Baldrian, P. & Bardgett, R. D. & 101 others, Barrios-Garcia, M. N., Bastida, F., Beggi, F., Benning, L. G., Bragazza, L., Broadbent, A. A. D., Cano-Díaz, C., Cates, A. M., Cerri, C. E. P., Cesarz, S., Chen, B., Classen, A. T., Dahl, M. B., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eisenhauer, N., Evgrafova, S. Y., Fanin, N., Fornasier, F., Francisco, R., Franco, A. L. C., Frey, S. D., Fritze, H., García, C., García-Palacios, P., Gómez-Brandón, M., Gonzalez-Polo, M., Gozalo, B., Griffiths, R., Guerra, C., Hallama, M., Hiiesalu, I., Hossain, M. Z., Hu, Y., Insam, H., Jassey, V. E. J., Jiang, L., Kandeler, E., Kohout, P., Kõljalg, U., Krashevska, V., Li, X., Lu, J.-Z., Lu, X., Luo, S., Lutz, S., Mackie-Haas, K. A., Maestre, F. T., Malmivaara-Lämsä, M., Mangelsdorf, K., Manjarrez, M., Marhan, S., Martin, A., Mason, K. E., Mayor, J., McCulley, R. L., Moora, M., Morais, P. V., Muñoz-Rojas, M., Murugan, R., Nottingham, A. T., Ochoa, V., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Oja, J., Olsson, P. A., Öpik, M., Ostle, N., Peltoniemi, K., Pennanen, T., Pescador, D. S., Png, G. K., Poll, C., Põlme, S., Potapov, A. M., Priemé, A., Pritchard, W., Puissant, J., Rocha, S. M. B., Rosinger, C., Ruess, L., Sayer, E. J., Scheu, S., Sinsabaugh, R. L., Slaughter, L. C., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Sousa, J. P., Stanish, L., Sugiyama, S.-I., Tedersoo, L., Trivedi, P., Vahter, T., Voriskova, J., Wagner, D., Wang, C., Wardle, D. A., Whitaker, J., Yang, Y., Zhong, Z., Zhu, K., Ziolkowski, L. A., Zobel, M. & van den Hoogen, J., 26/09/2025, In: Scientific Data. 12, 1, 1568.

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  • Soil microbial community responses to active and passive restoration of selectively logged Bornean tropical forest

    Robinson, S. J. B., Elias, D. M. O., Goodall, T., McNamara, N. P., Griffiths, R., Majalap, N., Sau Wai, Y. & Ostle, N. J., 22/08/2025, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 16, 1570294.

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  • The haunting of the Soul’s hill: Uncoupled responses of plant functional traits and soil microbes to serpentine soils lead to Bonsai effect in the Neotropics

    Guimaraes, A. F., Meirelles, G. S., Alagao Querido, L. C., Fernandes, K. M., Ribeiro, W., Oliveira, R. T. M., Silva, E. R., Canaan, M., Lira, M. F. P., Ostle, N. & Berg, E., 1/10/2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Tree Physiology.

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