This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic interactions at microscales to communities functioning at regional and global scales. The book leads the user towards an understanding of how the sustainability of soils, biodiversity, and ecosystem services can be maintained and how humans, other animals, and ecosystems are dependent on living soils and ecosystem services. This is a valuable reference book for academic libraries and professional ecologists worldwide as a statement of progress in the broad field of soil ecology. It will also be of interest to both upper level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in soil ecology, as well as academic researchers and professionals in the field requiring an authoritative, balanced, and up-to-date overview of this fast expanding topic.

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic interactions at microscales to communities functioning at regional and global scales. The book leads the user towards an understanding of how the sustainability of soils, biodiversity, and ecosystem services can be maintained and how humans, other animals, and ecosystems are dependent on living soils and ecosystem services.

Dyma'r unig ymdriniaeth ddiweddar yn y Gymraeg o rai o'r cwestiynau cymhleth a heriol a godir i ddiwinyddiaeth Gristnogol gan wyddoniaeth gyfoes: sut y gall diwinyddiaeth Gristnogol ymateb i'r ddealltwriaeth lawnach a dyfnach sydd gennym bellach am darddiad, datblygiad a phrosesau'r bydysawd? A all Cristnogion barhau i gyffesu yng ngeiriau'r Credo, 'Credwn yn Nuw, y Tad Hollalluog, Creawdwr nefoedd a daear'? Ac a fedrant goleddu'r Ffydd Apostolaidd a ddatguddiwyd drwy'r Ysgrythurau ac a gyffesir gan draddodiad Cristnogol y canrifoedd? Os gellir cyffesu'r ffydd hon o hyd, sut y mae ei dehongli heddiw, yn wyneb gwybodaeth gyfoes am darddiad y bydysawd, am siawns a chynllun, am Darwin a geneteg, am fiodechnoleg ac ecoleg? Mae deiliaid 'yr atheistiaeth newydd' yn honni nad yw cred mewn Duw yn bosibl - cred sicr awduron y gyfrol hon, fodd bynnag, yw nad oes gwrthdaro rhwng Cristnogaeth a gwyddoniaeth, a bod dealltwriaeth o'r naill yn cyfoethogi'n dirnadaeth o gyfoeth y llall. Dwy ffenestr wahanol sydd yma i'n galluogi i edrych ar ryfeddod Duw, ar y bydysawd sy'n tarddu yn ei fwriad a'i egni creadigol, ac ar wyrth pob bywyd sy'n ddibynnol ar y bydysawd hwnnw.