Reposted by Ken Giller
Soil tests to measure it.
Cover crop mixtures to enhance it.
Products to spray it on.
Chasing soil microbial diversity rests on an assumption that turns out to be wrong: cropland soil isn't diversity-depleted.
My latest Perspectives piece: csanr.wsu.edu/microbial-di...
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The Case Against Chasing Soil Microbial Diversity
Research challenges the idea that higher soil microbial diversity improves crop production, pointing instead to microbial composition.