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ClearSoil health and ecosystem services
This review synthesized evidence on how soil health underpins critical ecosystem services including climate regulation, water purification, biodiversity support, and food production. The paper identifies pollution, including microplastic contamination, as one of the growing threats to soil health, alongside acidification, salinization, and biodiversity loss.
Spatial Risks ofMicroplastics in Soils and the CascadingEffects Thereof
This review mapped the spatial risks of microplastic contamination in global soils, examining how climate, land use, and human activities distribute MP pollution and analyzing cascading effects on soil ecology, carbon cycling, and ecosystem services.
Editorial for Special Issue on “Soil Solutions for a Sustainable World”
This editorial introduces a special issue on soil solutions for sustainable development, framing the critical role of soils in providing ecosystem services — including food production, water purification, and biodiversity support — while highlighting mounting anthropogenic threats such as erosion, contamination, and compaction.
Soil under stress: The importance of soil life and how it is influenced by (micro)plastic pollution
This review examines how plastic pollution in soil disrupts soil organisms and microorganisms that regulate essential ecosystem functions, finding that plastic alters soil chemistry, physical structure, and microbial communities in ways that threaten primary production and carbon cycling.
Are microplastics destabilizing the global network of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services?
This review assessed how microplastics and nanoplastics disrupt terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services — including soil fertility, water filtration, and food production — arguing that the cumulative impacts across global ecosystems may destabilize the network of services on which human society depends.
Harnessing soil biodiversity to promote human health in cities
Researchers argue that urban soil biodiversity — the vast community of microorganisms, fungi, and invertebrates living in city soils — plays an overlooked role in human health by suppressing pathogens, shaping the human microbiome, and supporting immune function, and that restoring it in cities could offer meaningful public health benefits.
Microplastics in terrestrial environments: Reviewing current understanding to determine the positive and negative aspects of soil
This review examines microplastics in terrestrial soils, covering their sources, distribution, and effects on soil health and organisms. It finds both negative impacts on soil function and organisms, as well as some neutral or context-dependent effects, and identifies key areas for future research.
Understanding the effects of Microplastics and persistent organic pollutants' on soil ecosystem services supply
This research review shows that tiny plastic particles (microplastics) and long-lasting chemical pollutants are harming soil in ways that threaten human wellbeing. These pollutants damage soil's ability to grow healthy food, prevent floods, filter water, and support the plants we depend on for medicine and other resources. When soil gets polluted, it creates a chain reaction that reduces food production and makes our environment less able to protect us from natural disasters.
Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19
This review examined the critical role of healthy soils for food production and ecosystem function, particularly in the context of disruptions caused by COVID-19. The authors argue that the pandemic highlights the need to transition toward local food production on carefully managed soils, while also addressing plastic and microplastic contamination as a soil health threat.
The Mainstreaming Agenda of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Its Value to Protecting and Enhancing Soil Ecosystem Services
This chapter highlights the importance of soil biodiversity in providing ecosystem services and how it connects to the Convention on Biological Diversity's mainstreaming agenda. Researchers present case studies showing how soil biodiversity considerations can be integrated into decision-making across sectors. The study includes a practical checklist to help policymakers incorporate soil health into biodiversity and land management strategies.
Exploring Operational Procedures to Assess Ecosystem Services on Farm Level, Including the Role of Soil Health
Operational procedures for assessing ecosystem services at the farm level were tested across European living labs, with results demonstrating that participatory approaches involving farmers improved the practical relevance and uptake of soil health and ecosystem service assessments. The study provides a template for integrating farmer knowledge with scientific monitoring in agricultural sustainability evaluations.
Assessing the Complex Links Between Soils and Human Health: An Area of Pressing Need
This grand challenge article highlighted the complex and poorly understood links between soil quality and human health, calling for urgent interdisciplinary research to better understand how soil contaminants including heavy metals, pathogens, and emerging pollutants affect human wellbeing.
Identifying potential threats to soil biodiversity
Researchers conducted a thorough review of threats to soil biodiversity, identifying human intensive exploitation, land-use change, and soil organic matter decline among the key factors driving biodiversity loss. The review considers emerging pollutants including microplastics as potential threats and emphasizes the importance of monitoring soil biodiversity given its critical role in ecosystem functioning.
Sustainable soil use and management: An interdisciplinary and systematic approach
Researchers reviewed sustainable soil management through an interdisciplinary lens, arguing that achieving the UN's 2030 SDGs requires prioritizing soil health as a multifunctional asset, expanding soil organic carbon sequestration, and leveraging emerging data tools — including machine learning and 5G-enabled monitoring — to close critical knowledge gaps.
Interactions of Microplastics Toward an Ecological Risk in Soil Diversity
This review examines the ecological risks of microplastics in soil environments, discussing their sources, global distribution, mechanisms of entry into soil food webs, effects on microbial communities and soil fauna, biomagnification through trophic levels, and implications for soil ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Research on Soil Management and Conservation
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a brief editorial introduction to a journal special issue on soil management and conservation, with no substantive content about microplastic pollution.
Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022
This review synthesizes insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022 on soil ecology, identifying critical knowledge gaps about how simultaneous global change drivers — including microplastic contamination, climate change, and land use shifts — interact to affect soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Multidimensional Ecosystem Mapping: Towards a More Comprehensive Spatial Assessment of Nature’s Contributions to People in France
Researchers developed a multidimensional approach to mapping ecosystem services across France, going beyond traditional land-cover methods to incorporate soil, water, and biodiversity data. By combining multiple data layers, they created more accurate spatial assessments of the benefits nature provides to people, from carbon storage to pollination. The study demonstrates that considering multiple ecosystem dimensions simultaneously leads to more reliable conservation and land-use planning decisions.
Soil Health and Quality in Sustainable Agriculture
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a broad review of soil health and quality principles in sustainable agriculture.
How microplastics are destroying soil and human health
This review examined how microplastics harm soil health — disrupting soil structure, water retention, microbial communities, and nutrient cycling — and how soil degradation translates into risks for human health through food and water contamination. It argues that soil microplastic pollution deserves equivalent attention to aquatic contamination.
Microplastics in terrestrial environments: Reviewing current understanding to determine the positive and negative aspects of soil
This review examines microplastics in terrestrial soils, covering sources, distribution, and effects on soil health and organisms. It finds both negative impacts — reduced soil function, harm to earthworms and plants — and some neutral effects, highlighting significant research gaps.
Global concentrations of microplastic in soils, a review
This global review synthesized data from studies on microplastic concentrations in soils worldwide, finding contamination across diverse terrestrial environments with higher levels near urban areas and agricultural land. Terrestrial soils are estimated to contain far more microplastic than the world's oceans, making them a critical but understudied reservoir of plastic pollution.
Microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems: Global implications and sustainable solutions
This review examines microplastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems, an area that has received far less attention than ocean plastic pollution despite soil being a major sink for these contaminants. The study covers how microplastics interact with other soil pollutants, affect plant growth and soil health, and discusses both policy solutions and practical removal methods to reduce the amount of microplastics that enter the food chain.
A review of soil pollution, causes, and health effects
This review summarized the causes, extent, and health effects of soil pollution, covering both natural and anthropogenic sources including industrial activity, agriculture, and urbanization. The paper discussed how soil contamination degrades agricultural productivity, contaminates water resources, and poses direct risks to human health.