The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

📢Deadline extended‼️The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 call for symposia proposals are now due March 31, 2025 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Apply 👇 https://lnkd.in/g3t9TQmc

📣GSBI Speaks is back again in March! Join us to learn about soil inoculation 🦠🍄 March 19, 2025, 9:30 MDT, 11:30 EDT, 15:30 GMT, 16:30 CET Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbv9rnph Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gBnjYWM4

📢Announcing the Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 call for symposia proposals. Deadline is February 28, 2025 🦠🍄🐛🪱 Apply here 👇 https://lnkd.in/g3t9TQmc

📣 GSBI's latest blog has just been published 🎉 In this blog, Dr. Stefanie Lutz and Dr. Marcel van der Heijden discuss their recent paper in which they found that the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are underestimated globally 🦠🍄🌱 https://lnkd.in/geD3sf_3

📣GSBI Speaks is back this February! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱 Feb. 21, 2025, 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET Register 👇 https://lnkd.in/g7NnQ4B7

The third video in the 'Life in the Soil' channel is out, and it deals with soils under threat, specifically the effects of microplastic pollution. Hope you find it useful, please share it in your networks! :) https://lnkd.in/ezGsiMWK

How is soil doing where you live? Curious to know if and how soils around you are under threat? 🔍 Check the Soil Degradation Dashboard developed by EU Science, Research and Innovation's soil team 📊 🤎 Zoom in and out the map viewer to find your area of interest in Europe 🇪🇺. Several other tools (dependency wheel, maps) allow to understand the data and indicators behind the dashboard 🧑💻 🗺️ Check it out ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dfceQqX6

📢Announcing the Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 keynote speakers: Dr. César Marín (Chile), Dr. Janet K. Jansson (USA), and Dr. Maria J.I. Briones (Spain). For more information 👇 https://lnkd.in/g3t9TQmc

📣 GSBI's latest blog has just been published 🎉 In this blog, Dr. Ademir Araujo discusses the establishment of the Caatinga Microbiome Initiative (CMI) in the Brazilian Caatinga which is the most biodiverse semi-arid ecosystem in the world 🤎 https://lnkd.in/gm3pTYuW

This morning we tuned in to The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative's webinar series on Biocrusts 🪱🍂🍄🟫🌿 it was fabulous! They have great resources available online. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gzdzqpUK