Trailer from the motion picture Planet Soil (in Dutch "Onder het maaiveld"). A movie by Ignas van Schaik (c) M&N Media Group. The movie was commissioned by the IUCN, NIOO-KNAW, and the Dutch Butterfly Conservation Foundation.
SoBiFUN Foundation
The SoBiFUN Foundation is the place for the integrated measurement and assessment of SOil BIodiversity & FUNctioning, both key components of soil health and quality.
A wide range of soil physical, chemical and biological processes together generate multiple soil functions on which human society strongly depends:
Not every soil can deliver all functions at high levels simultaneously, there are trade-offs among functions. The purpose of the scientific programme behind SoBiFUN is to unravel the underlying rules - the mechanisms - that determine which functions can be combined on which soils, and which can not. To estimate the encoded functional response surface among functions as determined by climate, soil geology and pedology and management.