Edited by Diana H. Wall, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, USA, Richard D. Bardgett, University of Manchester, UK, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada, Jeffrey E. Herrick, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, USA, T. Hefin Jones, Cardiff University, UK, Karl Ritz, Cranfield University, UK, Johan Six, University of California, Davis, USA, Donald R. Strong, University of California, Davis, USA, and Wim H. van der Putten, The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands

The Editor-in-Chief, Diana H. Wall, is University Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University. Diana is actively engaged in research exploring how nematode and other invertebrate diversity contributes to healthy, productive soils and thus to society, and the consequences of human activities on soil globally. Her 20+ years research in the Antarctic Dry Valleys follows the response of soil organisms and ecosystem processes to environmental change, and in Africa she examines biodiversity in fertile and degraded soils. She served as President of the Ecological Society of America, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Intersociety Consortium for Plant Protection, the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers, and the Society of Nematologists. Diana received her BA and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, Lexington and is a Professor of Biology and a Senior Scientist, Natural Research Ecology Laboratory.

The Section Editors, Richard D. Bardgett, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Jeffrey E. Herrick, T. Hefin Jones, Karl Ritz, Johan Six, Donald R. Strong, and Wim H. van der Putten, are all leading researchers in this field.

Duur K. Aanen - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Pedro Antunes - Algoma University, Canada
Sara G. Baer - Southern Illinois University, USA
Joseph K. Bailey - University of Tennessee, USA
Martha M. Bakker - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Richard D. Bardgett - Lancaster University, UK
Edmundo Barrios - World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Justin Bastow - Eastern Washington University, USA
Valerie Behan-Pelletier - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Matty P. Berg - VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sharon A. Billings - University of Kansas, USA
Levente Bodrossy - CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
Mark A. Bradford - Yale University, USA
Maria J. I. Briones - University of Vigo, Spain
Lijbert Brussaard - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Michel A. Cavigelli - Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USA
Marco Cosme - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Felicity Crotty - Rothamsted Research, UK
Thibaud Decaëns - Université de Rouen, France
Gerlinde B. De Deyn - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Valerie T. Eviner - University of California, Davis, USA
Tom M. Fayle - Imperial College London, UK
Emmi Felker-Quinn - University of Tennessee, USA
Noah Fierer - University of Colorado, USA
Philipp Franken - Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany
Jennifer Fraterrigo - University of Illinois, USA
Stuart Grandy - University of New Hampshire, USA
Evelyn Hackl - Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Jim Harris - Cranfield University, UK
Miranda M. Hart - The University of British Columbia, Canada
Katarina Hedlund - Lund University, Sweden
Liam Heneghan - DePaul University, USA
Jeffrey E. Herrick - USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, USA
Samuel W. James - University of Iowa, USA
T. Hefin Jones - Cardiff University, UK
Douglas L. Karlen - United States Department of Agriculture, USA
Patrick Lavelle - Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia
Michael D. Madritch - Appalachian State University, USA
Peter Manning - Newcastle University, UK
Jude E. Maul - Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USA
Phil Murray - Rothamsted Research, UK
Tânia Nobre - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Kate Orwin - Lancaster University, UK
Nicholas J. Ostle - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Mitchell A. Pavao-Zuckerman - University of Arizona, USA
Matthias Rillig - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Karl Ritz - Cranfield University, UK
Michael Schloter - Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Gregor W. Schuurman - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, USA
Dietmar Schwarz - Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany
Jennifer A. Schweitzer - University of Tennessee, USA
Martha Scott - Algoma University, Canada
Angela Sessitsch - Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Keith Shepherd - World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Gudeta W. Sileshi - World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Fergus Sinclair - World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Johan Six - University of California, Davis, USA
Donald R. Strong - University of California, Davis, USA
Katalin Szlavecz - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ute Szukics - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Wim H. van der Putten - Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands
Nick van Eekeren - Louis Bolk Institute, The Netherlands
Kristof Van Oost - Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Diana H. Wall - Colorado State University, USA
Susan E. Ward - Lancaster University, UK
Susanne Wurst - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

"Overall, the editor, section editors, and authors have achieved what they intended to do. They have produced a contemporary account of cutting edge science about soils and sustainability" - Robert H. Marrs, Biological Conservation