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Official account of the journal Soil Organisms published by Senckenberg @sgn.one. Posts include news and articles contained in issues of the journal and communications from the editors. Latest Issue: https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO
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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Dec 9
📢 Call for Collaborators!

Interested in Isopods? Check out this call in Soil Organisms by Konstantin Gongalsky and colleagues @msteinwandter.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social

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OniscidBase: A call for contributions to a global database to advance terrestrial isopod research | Soil Organisms
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✨📢✨Check this out!

Anastasia Striuchkova and Nataliya Kuznetsova delve into the lineagues of the collembolan Parisotoma notabilis in the NEWEST issue of Soil Organisms!

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December 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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What are the responded of Aporrectodea earthworms to difference habitat types?

📢 Cecelia Castleberry and colleagues tell us here! 🪱🪱🪱

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View of Aporrectodea earthworms respond to salt and organic matter levels in captive and free-choice mesocosms
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December 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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📢 Call for Collaborators!

Interested in Isopods? Check out this call in Soil Organisms by Konstantin Gongalsky and colleagues @msteinwandter.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social

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OniscidBase: A call for contributions to a global database to advance terrestrial isopod research | Soil Organisms
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December 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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How does bosy size in a soil faunal community affect litter loss? Zhaoxing Li and colleagues explain in the latest issue of Soil Organisms! 🪱🐌🐜

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December 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Learn more about the 🪱🪱🪱 A. caliginosa in this NEW article in SO by Celine Pelosi and colleagues

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December 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Very happy to be part of and to see this review on #Oniscidea (woodlice, terrestrial #Isopoda) published in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social .

Many thanks to Konstantin Gongalsky & Pallieter De Smedt for leading this! 🎊

Read/download the review: doi.org/10.25674/466
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Screenshot of the title and authors of the new review and data call paper on Oniscidae (terrestrial isopods, woodlice) and the new network called 'OniscidBase'. Overview of 16 photos of terrestrial isopods (woodlice, Oniscidea) taken from the review on the new network 'OniscidBase'.
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Check out the ✨NEW✨ article by Takafumi Nakano and colleagues on 2 new species of Spiders in the genus Cybaeus from Japan! 🕷️🕷️

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December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The December issue of Soil Organisms is OUT 🥳

Cool articles on Isopoda, earthworm traits, soil fauna-mediated decomposition, phylogeographic patterns in Collembola, & tropical soil ecology await!

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December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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New Issue of Soil Organisms is OUT!

Tobias Mainda introduces us to 6 ✨NEW✨ #Staphylinidae from the Phillipines. Check is out here ⬇️

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#coleoptera #rovebeetles
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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✨✨ONLINE FIRST!✨✨

How does body size of soil faunal communities affect litter loss in microcosoms? 🐜🍄🪱🌱

Zhao Xing Li and colleagues tell us here ⬇️ today!

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October 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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📢✨ONLINE EXCLUSIVE!✨

✨Check out the SPECIAL ISSUE released TODAY!✨

"Highlights from the International Network on Soil Biodiversity"
Check it out here ⬇️⬇️

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September 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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📢 IT'S A NEW ISSUE OF SOIL ORGANISMS 🤩

In the August issue of S.O. articles on #collembola, effects of #urbanization & the chapter on #soilbiodiversity in the Faktencheck Artenvielfalt, the German report on biodiversity, are highlighted.

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August 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Interested in Reviving Soil Biodiversity in Agricultural Land? Juliana Filser and colleagues discuss this TODAY in Soil Organisms 🪱🌱🍄🐝

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July 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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📢✨ONLINE FIRST✨ New #collembola species found in the UK!

James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social National Recorder of Sprintails, tells the world about Entomobrya petri! 💚

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July 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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📢✨ONLINE FIRST✨

What are the challenges & future for #soilbiodiversity monitoring in #Germany? Christian Ristok & colleagues tell us!
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July 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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✨ONLINE FIRST✨🍄🐜🌱
📢 Cyrille D. Haese and colleagues examine #collembola fauna from Iranian #biodiversity hotspots! @thomastully.bsky.social

Check it out here! ⬇️
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July 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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📢✨ONLINE FIRST!✨

How do anthropogenic drivers influence @soilbiodiversity change? Find out here!

@bartoszbartk.com @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social @christianristok.bsky.social @doreenbabin.bsky.social Jörg Römbke, Frank Galante, Christina Lachman

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June 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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✨ONLINE FIRST!✨ How does @soilbiodiversity influence @ecosystemfunction ?🌱🍄🪱

Lillane Ruess & colleague tell us here! Please repost!!
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June 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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📢 Another ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ article today in Soil Organisms!

Hayden Bock & colleagues examine the effects of urbanization on the trophic niches of some common soil-dwelling taxa. Please repost!! 🕷️🕷️🕷️
#mites #collembola #soilbiodiversity
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June 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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📢 Welcome to the beginning of Soil Organisms ✨ONLINE FIRST✨!

Articles made available online before tri-yearly issues! 🪱🐜

TODAY! Karin Hohberg tells us about the status of soil biodiversity in Germany!

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June 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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What is needed to implement Soil Biodiversity Awareness in Germany? Willi Xylander and Frank Glante investigate in the latest issue of @soilorganismsj.bsky.social
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Deficits, needs, solution attempts and transfer formats for implementing a “Soil Biodiversity Awareness” in Germany: – This paper is part of the special collection ‘Faktencheck Artenvielfalt’ ...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Are #collembola #bioluminescent? They sure are!! 🤩
Can you capture this with a smart phone? You can! 😍

Atsuko Ohira & Taizo Nakamori show us in their latest paper in Soil Organisms. Check it out below!

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April 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Art is a way of life & tool to communicate about science, soils & soil organisms 🪱🐜🍄🌱 The new SO column celebrates this! 🎉

Svenja Meyer @fminifera.bsky.social is inspired by & spreads the love of soil organisms though her art. Read more here:
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A red haired woman in a blue outdoor jacket with green and rust colored trees behind her.
April 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Soil Biodiversity is critical for humans & all life on Earth! ✨🪱🐜🍄🐜✨

Janina Kleeman & colleagues highlight UNEXPLORED links between #soilbiodiversity & soil-based #ecosystemservices

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The unexplored links between soil, soil biodiversity, and soil-related ecosystem services: – This paper is part of the special collection ‘Faktencheck Artenvielfalt’ | Soil Organisms
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April 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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📢 The APRIL 2025 issue of Soil Organisms is OUT! New articles. New types of articles. Soil biodiversity and science communication. CHECK IT OUT NOW! ⬇️

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Soil Organisms
SOIL ORGANISMS is an English-language, international journal that includes original papers and review articles covering all aspects of organismic soil biology. Open Access. Double blind peer reviewed.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM