*Department of Biology, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29528; †Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; ‡Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755; §Department of Biology, Doane College, Crete, NE 68333; ‖Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130; ¶Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biolog...

2Department of Biology, Gilman Lab, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 USA; 3Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 USA; 4Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 USA; 5Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 2406...

Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK (I.S.K., S.S., I.T.-J., C.I.P., M.K.U.); Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Science, Stanford, CA 94305 (D.S., W.B.F.); Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (D.G., J.M.); and Division of Plant & Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantow...

the philosophy of biology has existed as a distinct sub-discipline within the philosophy of science for about thirty years. the rapid growth of the field has mirrored that of the biological sciences in the same period. today the discipline is well represented in the leading journals in philosophy of science, as well as in several specialist journals. there have been two generations of textbooks...

*Department of Biology, @Department of World Languages and Cultures, and **Department of Philosophy, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652 Department of Biology, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA 17701; ‡Department of Biology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282; §Department of Biology, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 17870; ‖Department of Biological Sciences, California State Un...

Soil microbial communities play an important role in plant health and soil quality. Researchers have developed a wide range of methods for studying the structure, diversity, and activity of microbes to better understand soil biology and plant-microbe interactions. Functional microbiological analyses of the rhizosphere have given new insights into the role of microbial communities in plant nutri...

Drawing on academic literature and personal experience, the authors highlight trends emerging from sustainable agriculture efforts in developing countries, involving research institutions, action agencies, and communities, to provide recommendations for advancing a soil health movement. They argue that multi-disciplinary and -institutional efforts on soil health that link research, practice, an...