Increases in human populations and the emerging challenges of climate change mean that
the world's agricultural systems will need to produce more food in an environment that is …

Pesticides, if used as recommended, are generally expected to cause little adverse impact
on the environment. However, it is evident that trace levels of pesticide residues present in …

Efficient resource use is a key factor for sustainable production and a necessity for meeting
future global food demands. However, the factors that control resource use efficiency in agro …

Understanding the impacts of agricultural intensification and extensification on soil biota
communities is useful in order to preserve and restore biological diversity in agricultural soils …

We examined the importance of terrestrial detrital inputs to secondary productivity of a
headwater stream. Following a year of pretreatment studies on two headwater streams, we …

There is increasing interest in soil management practices that enhance biological
contributions to soil fertility due to greater awareness of the need for sustainable farming …

The aim of the present work was to assess the response of microbial functional diversity to
organic soil amendment and the relationship between the microbial functional diversity and …

Microbial community diversity and structure, which underpin soil function, can in turn be
impacted by land-use practices. In this study an agricultural site with consistent long term (+ …

A bstract In this study, two different agricultural soils were investigated: one organic soil and
one sandy soil, from Stend (south of Bergen), Norway. The sandy soil was a field frequently …

Background The soil environment is responsible for sustaining most terrestrial plant life, yet
we know surprisingly little about the important functions carried out by diverse microbial …