Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability.

Diana H. Wall, University Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, USA,Richard D. Bardgett, Professor of Ecology, University of Manchester, UK,Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Research Fellow, Invertebrate Biodiversity Program, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada,Jeffrey E. Herrick, Research Scientist, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, USA,T. Hefin Jones, Senior Lecturer and Professor, Cardiff University, UK,Johan Six, Professor of Agroecology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA,Donald R. Strong, Professor of Biological Science, University of California, Davis, USA,Wim H. van der Putten, Head of the Department of Terrestrial Ecology, The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands

The Editor-in-Chief, Diana H. Wall, is University Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University. Diana is actively engaged in research exploring how nematode and other invertebrate diversity contributes to healthy, productive soils and thus to society, and the consequences of human activities on soil globally. Her 20+ years research in the Antarctic Dry Valleys follows the response of soil organisms and ecosystem processes to environmental change, and in Africa she examines biodiversity in fertile and degraded soils. She served as President of the Ecological Society of America, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Intersociety Consortium for Plant Protection, the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers, and the Society of Nematologists. Diana received her BA and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, Lexington and is a Professor of Biology and a Senior Scientist at the Natural Research Ecology Laboratory.

The Section Editors, Richard D. Bardgett, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Jeffrey E. Herrick, T. Hefin Jones, Karl Ritz, Johan Six, Donald R. Strong, and Wim H. van der Putten, are all leading researchers in this field.