In many places, scientists on survival in soil which creatures or individual organism the role new little concept.Now, soil scientist, said a new set of tools to help researchers fill the gaps, including advanced DNA sequencing method to determine soil or how many kinds of micro-organisms living in the water sample.

Ecologists and conservation scientists dig deeper into the soil of time--in order to gain a better understanding of healthy ecosystems and human food supply is essential and could provide a potential antibiotic-rich soil organisms.This called for an expansion of the often ignored on the ground call for research on biological diversity, was incorporated into a meeting on December 5 in the soils of the world day to launch the collection of papers.

“Despite the significant progress made over the past decades, but still lag far behind Earth ecology of soil ecology.Our understanding of the underground world is relatively limited. ”Germany at Berlin's free University, Stavros Veresoglou, a soil ecologist at the published in the journal nature said in a paper in the journal of communication.Researchers say, especially research on soil biological extinction risk are surprisingly scarce.

“We need to study extinction status in the soil, and now is the time to start. ”Co-authors of the paper, soil microbiologist Matthias Rillig at Berlin's free University said, "taking into account land use and global climate change human being on Earth to do something, soil scientists widespread fears that we may be missing some things that are taking place. ”