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Published online 8 October 2008 |
Nature
455,
724-725
(2008)
| doi:10.1038/455724a
Corrected online: 29 October 2008
News Feature
Soil ecology: What lies beneath
More creatures live in soil than any other environment on Earth. But what are they all doing there? Amber Dance reports on the world's widest biodiversity.
Ecosystems aren't green; they are black and brown, at least in the colour palette favoured by Diana Wall. Wall, a soil ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, spends her days digging into the world's underground ecosystems.
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