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Soil Health
Soils belong to the most densely inhabited and biodiverse habitats of our planet. Bacteria and fungi are the dominant organismal groups in soil. Nematodes are by far the most abundant animals benefitting from the presence of plant roots, bacteria, fungi, insects and other nematodes as major food sources. Protists are main consumers of the bacterial and fungal community. Together these biota form the soil food web; a network of interactions that determines the biological functioning of soils. For decades, soils were considered to be too complex to study, but fortunately this is no longer true.