Welcome to the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

Seeking to promote expert knowledge on soil biodiversity in environmental policy and sustainable land management to protect and enhance ecosystem services

 
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World Soil Day

Monday, 5 December 2022

What are you planning to celebrate #WorldSoilDay?

Check the UN FAO official World Soil Day website for more info on their soil contests for kids, global celebrations, and lots more.

Use #Soils4Nutrition in your social media posts!

 

 

Help a Student get to GSB3!

We all know the costs of a conference can be large, especially if you are a student with the research to have an accepted abstract, but not the funding to make it a reality. Consider a donation today to help students register and travel to the conference in Dublin!

100% of your donation goes to students.

DONATE HERE


 

Meet the Keynote Speakers at GSB3!

 

Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester, UK

Lydie-Stella Koutika, CRDPI, Republic of the Congo

Yuting Liang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Kelly Ramirez, University of Texas-El Paso, USA

Tom Crowther, ETH Zurich

Edith Hammer, Lund University, Sweden

 

 

January 2023 “GSBI Speaks!”

 
 

Valerie Behan-Pelletier

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

 
 

Valerie Behan-Pelletier

Wednesday January 18, 2023

8:00 Mountain, 10:00 Eastern, 15:00 UK, 16:00 Central Europe

Join the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative in a conversation with the undesputed queen of soil mite and soil mite ecology.

Behan-Pelletier will discuss these topics, her new book with Zoë Lindo (Western University, Ontario).

REGISTER HERE

 
 

 
 

Read the first-ever report on the State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity!

Produced in conjunction with the UN-FAO, ITPS, GSBI, SCBD, the European Commission (EC), and 300+ contributing-scientists, this report is the primary science and policy guiding-document in the world for connecting science to policy recommendations for the conservation and monitoring of soil biodiversity.

Citation: FAO, ITPS, GSBI, SCBD, and EC. 2020. State of knowledge of soil biodiversity - Status, challenges and potentialities, Report 2020. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb1929en

 
 

 
 

The Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas

Soil biodiversity affects our environment and our wellbeing. Learn about soil organisms around the world in the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas jointly published by the European Commission Joint Research Centre and the GSBI.

 
 

 
 

GET INVOLVED WITH GSBI!

 
 

Get updates on what the GSBI is up to and never miss an opportunity to participate in GSBI events and efforts.

Stay up-to-date with the work other GSBI members are doing or share some of your own work in the GSBI blog “Beneath Our Feet.”

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