Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR
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Our aim is to advance and share knowledge, through research and education, on how soil life can improve the quality and functioning of soils in agroecosystems around the world.
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•📢 🪱 🎉Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the upcoming 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE13) — hosted in Wageningen, from August 23–28, 2026!
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/author
•🔗🪱🌍 Discover the speaker lineup and our initial program: ➡️ event.wur.nl/isee13/new-p...
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/author
•🔗🪱🌍 Discover the speaker lineup and our initial program: ➡️ event.wur.nl/isee13/new-p...
September 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
•📢 🪱 🎉Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the upcoming 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE13) — hosted in Wageningen, from August 23–28, 2026!
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/author
•🔗🪱🌍 Discover the speaker lineup and our initial program: ➡️ event.wur.nl/isee13/new-p...
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/author
•🔗🪱🌍 Discover the speaker lineup and our initial program: ➡️ event.wur.nl/isee13/new-p...
📣 Exciting news! A brand‑new publication co‑authored by our own Paolo Di Lonardo is out now 🎉
It’s a comprehensive review on Urban Soil Health — a field with huge potential and still so much work ahead📝!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It’s a comprehensive review on Urban Soil Health — a field with huge potential and still so much work ahead📝!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Advancing urban soil health: challenges, knowledge gaps, and future research perspectives
Urbanization is projected to surpass 65% of the global population by 2050 and urban soils remain an overlooked yet crucial component for a sustainable…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📣 Exciting news! A brand‑new publication co‑authored by our own Paolo Di Lonardo is out now 🎉
It’s a comprehensive review on Urban Soil Health — a field with huge potential and still so much work ahead📝!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It’s a comprehensive review on Urban Soil Health — a field with huge potential and still so much work ahead📝!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📃🪱🪨 Have you ever thought about the role that not just living, but even dead earthworms play in carbon capture through mineral weathering? 🪱🪨
🧨Check out the newly fresh paper, published in Nature communications earth and environment led by our PhD student Tullia Calogiuri ➡️ lnkd.in/e5P8ucpc
🧨Check out the newly fresh paper, published in Nature communications earth and environment led by our PhD student Tullia Calogiuri ➡️ lnkd.in/e5P8ucpc
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November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📃🪱🪨 Have you ever thought about the role that not just living, but even dead earthworms play in carbon capture through mineral weathering? 🪱🪨
🧨Check out the newly fresh paper, published in Nature communications earth and environment led by our PhD student Tullia Calogiuri ➡️ lnkd.in/e5P8ucpc
🧨Check out the newly fresh paper, published in Nature communications earth and environment led by our PhD student Tullia Calogiuri ➡️ lnkd.in/e5P8ucpc
📃Publication "Sustainable intensification: time to question the goal of ever-increasing agricultural production" Gabriel Moinet (SBL) et al.
Land use intensity effect on soil multifunctionality? Challenging the claims that productivity can increase without trade-offs
www.scopus.com/pages/public...
Land use intensity effect on soil multifunctionality? Challenging the claims that productivity can increase without trade-offs
www.scopus.com/pages/public...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📃Publication "Sustainable intensification: time to question the goal of ever-increasing agricultural production" Gabriel Moinet (SBL) et al.
Land use intensity effect on soil multifunctionality? Challenging the claims that productivity can increase without trade-offs
www.scopus.com/pages/public...
Land use intensity effect on soil multifunctionality? Challenging the claims that productivity can increase without trade-offs
www.scopus.com/pages/public...
📣 Another Chapter from our group, this time the focus is on earthworms and enchytraeids as indicators of soil health🪱🪱: www.bdspublishing.com/open-access/
With great work of Alix Vidal, Tullia Calogiuri (amazing figures!), Jan Willem van Groenigen and other authors outside SBL✨
Enjoy the read!🎉
With great work of Alix Vidal, Tullia Calogiuri (amazing figures!), Jan Willem van Groenigen and other authors outside SBL✨
Enjoy the read!🎉
Open Access
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October 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📣 Another Chapter from our group, this time the focus is on earthworms and enchytraeids as indicators of soil health🪱🪱: www.bdspublishing.com/open-access/
With great work of Alix Vidal, Tullia Calogiuri (amazing figures!), Jan Willem van Groenigen and other authors outside SBL✨
Enjoy the read!🎉
With great work of Alix Vidal, Tullia Calogiuri (amazing figures!), Jan Willem van Groenigen and other authors outside SBL✨
Enjoy the read!🎉
📣Our own Gerlinde De Deyn at the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity in Dubai!
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
October 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📣Our own Gerlinde De Deyn at the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity in Dubai!
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
A couple of weeks ago our Gabriel Moinet & Alix Vidal led the Grounding Carbon Farming course in Normandie🐄 together with Ina Möller, Federico Andreotti & guests experts Claire Chenu & Roman Hüppi!
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A couple of weeks ago our Gabriel Moinet & Alix Vidal led the Grounding Carbon Farming course in Normandie🐄 together with Ina Möller, Federico Andreotti & guests experts Claire Chenu & Roman Hüppi!
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
📢 Hot off the press in New Phytologist!
A fresh study explores the link between root traits and ecosystem functions 🌱🌍, with our very own Thom Kuyper among the co-authors! 👏
🔗 Check it out :
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A fresh study explores the link between root traits and ecosystem functions 🌱🌍, with our very own Thom Kuyper among the co-authors! 👏
🔗 Check it out :
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions
Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
📢 Hot off the press in New Phytologist!
A fresh study explores the link between root traits and ecosystem functions 🌱🌍, with our very own Thom Kuyper among the co-authors! 👏
🔗 Check it out :
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A fresh study explores the link between root traits and ecosystem functions 🌱🌍, with our very own Thom Kuyper among the co-authors! 👏
🔗 Check it out :
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📣Amazing outreach day yesterday with the Weekend of science! More than 300 visitors looking at plants, soil...🎉
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
October 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
📣Amazing outreach day yesterday with the Weekend of science! More than 300 visitors looking at plants, soil...🎉
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
Thank you to all the collaborators, great collective effort to pass our science to the general public and a lot of kids🪱🦠🌱😀!
See you next year! weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
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🎉Come to the Wageningen Hotspot of the Weekend of Science on Sunday 5th Oct!✨
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
October 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🎉Come to the Wageningen Hotspot of the Weekend of Science on Sunday 5th Oct!✨
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
You will find a variety of activities from the Soil Museum, soil painting, measuring photosynthesis, genetics, games with roots & more...
Spread the word and see you there! Info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
🎉Last week first observation together with NIOO, on their beautiful green rooftop, for the Bodemdierendagen! It was great success & we manage to find the tiny ten🪱🐛🐜 ..but also the little eleven🦠✨! Take your observation, is your turn now! How many soil organisms will you find?
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
September 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🎉Last week first observation together with NIOO, on their beautiful green rooftop, for the Bodemdierendagen! It was great success & we manage to find the tiny ten🪱🐛🐜 ..but also the little eleven🦠✨! Take your observation, is your turn now! How many soil organisms will you find?
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
📣Come on the 5th October to Wageningen University to get some hand on soils and more during the Weekend of Science! Soil Biology group people are also going to be there to inspire about the beauty of soil organisms🪱🦠🐛🌱!!
More info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
More info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
September 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
📣Come on the 5th October to Wageningen University to get some hand on soils and more during the Weekend of Science! Soil Biology group people are also going to be there to inspire about the beauty of soil organisms🪱🦠🐛🌱!!
More info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
More info: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot...
📣ART&SOIL ALERT ⁉️ Studio Metaform & our PhD candidate Doina Mani will take you into the invisible world of nematodes and their ecological stories.
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
September 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
📣ART&SOIL ALERT ⁉️ Studio Metaform & our PhD candidate Doina Mani will take you into the invisible world of nematodes and their ecological stories.
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
✨A big thank you to all the participants and lecturers of the Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions 🪱🦠🌱! A week full of exchanges, discussions, activities, learning and networking! Looking forward to the next edition!🎉
September 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
✨A big thank you to all the participants and lecturers of the Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions 🪱🦠🌱! A week full of exchanges, discussions, activities, learning and networking! Looking forward to the next edition!🎉
Find Paolo di Lonardo at EUROSOIL 2025 in Sevilla next week
📅 Monday 8 Sept 18:00–19:00
👉 panelist in the workshop “Missions to Protect Soil”
📅 Tuesday 9 Sept 12:30–12:45
EUSO Stakeholders Forum
👉 “Rethinking Soil Health in Urban Systems: Insights from Research Trends and Field Implementation”.
📅 Monday 8 Sept 18:00–19:00
👉 panelist in the workshop “Missions to Protect Soil”
📅 Tuesday 9 Sept 12:30–12:45
EUSO Stakeholders Forum
👉 “Rethinking Soil Health in Urban Systems: Insights from Research Trends and Field Implementation”.
September 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Find Paolo di Lonardo at EUROSOIL 2025 in Sevilla next week
📅 Monday 8 Sept 18:00–19:00
👉 panelist in the workshop “Missions to Protect Soil”
📅 Tuesday 9 Sept 12:30–12:45
EUSO Stakeholders Forum
👉 “Rethinking Soil Health in Urban Systems: Insights from Research Trends and Field Implementation”.
📅 Monday 8 Sept 18:00–19:00
👉 panelist in the workshop “Missions to Protect Soil”
📅 Tuesday 9 Sept 12:30–12:45
EUSO Stakeholders Forum
👉 “Rethinking Soil Health in Urban Systems: Insights from Research Trends and Field Implementation”.
🎉And yet another edition of our Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions started today🦠🪱🐜🐛🌱! Impressive diversity of participants with different backgrounds and expertise! Looking forward to the rest of the week! 🥼🔬☕🎉
September 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🎉And yet another edition of our Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions started today🦠🪱🐜🐛🌱! Impressive diversity of participants with different backgrounds and expertise! Looking forward to the rest of the week! 🥼🔬☕🎉
🪱 Publication Announcement! 🌱🍄🟫
Book chapter “Soil biology, health and ecosystem services: an overview”. We detail the process of selecting indicators to assess soil health in agricultural systems, applied to four key soil functions.
📂 Open access link:
lnkd.in/eXW6VQzu
Have a nice read!
Book chapter “Soil biology, health and ecosystem services: an overview”. We detail the process of selecting indicators to assess soil health in agricultural systems, applied to four key soil functions.
📂 Open access link:
lnkd.in/eXW6VQzu
Have a nice read!
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August 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🪱 Publication Announcement! 🌱🍄🟫
Book chapter “Soil biology, health and ecosystem services: an overview”. We detail the process of selecting indicators to assess soil health in agricultural systems, applied to four key soil functions.
📂 Open access link:
lnkd.in/eXW6VQzu
Have a nice read!
Book chapter “Soil biology, health and ecosystem services: an overview”. We detail the process of selecting indicators to assess soil health in agricultural systems, applied to four key soil functions.
📂 Open access link:
lnkd.in/eXW6VQzu
Have a nice read!
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📣Soil cluster seminar: "Disentangling the soil-plant microbiome nexus for beneficial solutions: from biostimulants to xenobiotics degradation" 🦠 from Prof. Eduardo Puglisi
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
August 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📣Soil cluster seminar: "Disentangling the soil-plant microbiome nexus for beneficial solutions: from biostimulants to xenobiotics degradation" 🦠 from Prof. Eduardo Puglisi
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
☑️9th September
☑️10 to 11 am
☑️GAIA building room B001
For joining on Teams:
Meeting ID: 326 610 433 473 8
Passcode: Hy9Kp9Pf
📣Paper alert! "Drivers of the geographical distribution of nematode-based indices across Europe" led by the PhD student Doina Mani working between SBL and SGL.
Have a nice read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Have a nice read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Drivers of the geographical distribution of nematode-based indices across Europe
Nematode-based indices (NBIs) are widely used as indicators of soil health, reflecting key aspects of soil functioning. However, their spatial variabi…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
📣Paper alert! "Drivers of the geographical distribution of nematode-based indices across Europe" led by the PhD student Doina Mani working between SBL and SGL.
Have a nice read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Have a nice read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱
If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply.
Deadline, September 30, 2025.
More info here:
lnkd.in/eGFJktsN
If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply.
Deadline, September 30, 2025.
More info here:
lnkd.in/eGFJktsN
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August 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📣We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱
If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply.
Deadline, September 30, 2025.
More info here:
lnkd.in/eGFJktsN
If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply.
Deadline, September 30, 2025.
More info here:
lnkd.in/eGFJktsN
📣 Paper alert: publications led by PhD Jonas Schepens at the Soil Biology group (SBL) on SOC accrual in relation to management practices in northwest Europe.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From global trends to local realities: SOC accrual of improved management practices in northwestern Europe
Numerous meta-analyses provide rates of carbon accrual for specific management practices at global scales. However, understanding how specific farming…
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July 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
📣 Paper alert: publications led by PhD Jonas Schepens at the Soil Biology group (SBL) on SOC accrual in relation to management practices in northwest Europe.
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣Last week new doctor Enno Sonntag, joint PhD with Thuenen Institute of Organic Farming, successfully defended his thesis:
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
July 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
📣Last week new doctor Enno Sonntag, joint PhD with Thuenen Institute of Organic Farming, successfully defended his thesis:
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
📣♻️ Turning dairy processing waste into phosphorus fertilizer? Absolutely — with a little help from soil microbes! 🌱
Dive into the final chapter of Angel Velasco-Sánchez’s PhD thesis @geoderma.bsky.social, also with Gabriel Moinet and @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dive into the final chapter of Angel Velasco-Sánchez’s PhD thesis @geoderma.bsky.social, also with Gabriel Moinet and @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Phosphorus fertilization of grasses with dairy processing waste materials and contributions of soil microorganisms towards phosphorus uptake
Dairy processing waste (DPW) is one of the largest agro-industrial residues globally and has the potential of reducing the dependency on mineral phosp…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📣♻️ Turning dairy processing waste into phosphorus fertilizer? Absolutely — with a little help from soil microbes! 🌱
Dive into the final chapter of Angel Velasco-Sánchez’s PhD thesis @geoderma.bsky.social, also with Gabriel Moinet and @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dive into the final chapter of Angel Velasco-Sánchez’s PhD thesis @geoderma.bsky.social, also with Gabriel Moinet and @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🎉Very nice workshop on public engagement, communication and soil literacy last week in collaboration with Stephan Mantel from ISRIC during the Soil@WUR day! Bulding a community here 💪🎉
June 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🎉Very nice workshop on public engagement, communication and soil literacy last week in collaboration with Stephan Mantel from ISRIC during the Soil@WUR day! Bulding a community here 💪🎉
✨Very nice workshop on art and soils organized by Giulia Bongiorno, Erne Blondeau and Tullia Calogiuri from our department! This is one way to connect with soil..
Thanks to ISRIC for hosting us at the amazing Soil museum and to Erika Henskens for guinding us through the world of soil pigments🎨
Thanks to ISRIC for hosting us at the amazing Soil museum and to Erika Henskens for guinding us through the world of soil pigments🎨
✨Yesterday we organized a workshop on Art and Soil for the ArtMeetScience program at WUR in the ISRIC soil museum🎨🖌️...very inspiring seeing how participants liked it and connected with soils! Also adults like to be creative!
More events will take place during the month of art of WUR, stay tuned!🪱🦠🐜
More events will take place during the month of art of WUR, stay tuned!🪱🦠🐜
June 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
✨Very nice workshop on art and soils organized by Giulia Bongiorno, Erne Blondeau and Tullia Calogiuri from our department! This is one way to connect with soil..
Thanks to ISRIC for hosting us at the amazing Soil museum and to Erika Henskens for guinding us through the world of soil pigments🎨
Thanks to ISRIC for hosting us at the amazing Soil museum and to Erika Henskens for guinding us through the world of soil pigments🎨