Editing Soil science (section)

==Research==
Exploring the diversity and dynamics of soil continues to yield fresh discoveries and insights. New avenues of soil research are compelled by a need to understand soil in the context of [[climate change]],<ref name="raul" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Pielke |first=Roger |date=12 December 2005 |title=Is Soil an Important Component of the Climate System? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908124853/http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2005/12/19/is-soil-an-important-component-of-the-climate-system/ |archive-date=8 September 2006 |work=The Climate Science Weblog |access-date=19 April 2012|url=http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2005/12/19/is-soil-an-important-component-of-the-climate-system/ }}</ref> [[greenhouse gas]]es, and [[carbon sequestration]].<ref name="raul">{{cite journal |last1=Ochoa-Hueso |first1=R |last2=Delgado-Baquerizo |first2=M |last3=King |first3=PTA |last4=Benham |first4=M |last5=Arca |first5=V |last6=Power |first6=SA |title=Ecosystem type and resource quality are more important than global change drivers in regulating early stages of litter decomposition |journal=Soil Biology and Biochemistry |date=February 2019 |volume=129 |pages=144–152 |doi=10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.11.009 |bibcode=2019SBiBi.129..144O |s2cid=92606851 |hdl=10261/336676 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Interest in maintaining the planet's biodiversity and in exploring [[terra preta|past cultures]] has also stimulated renewed interest in achieving a more refined understanding of soil.