Soil as a habitat / Patrick Lavelle -- Soil biodiversity and functions / Susanne Wurst, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, and Kate Orwin -- Ecosystem services provided by the soil biota / Lijbert Brussaard -- From single genes to microbial networks / Evelyn Hackl [and others] -- From genes to ecosystems : plant genetics as a link between above- and belowground processes / Jennifer A. Schweitzer [and others] -- Delivery of soil ecosystem services : from Gaia to genes / Katarina Hedlund and Jim Harris -- Succession, resource processing, and diversity in detrital food webs / Justin Bastow -- Patterns of biodiversity at fine and small spatial scales / Matty P. Berg -- Linking soil biodiversity and human health : do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contribute to food nutrition? / Pedro M. Antunes [and others] -- Ecosystem influences of fungus-growing termites in the dry paleotropics / Gregor W. Schuurman -- The biogeography of microbial communities and ecosystem processes : implications for soil and ecosystem models / Mark A. Bradford and Noah Fierer -- Biogeography and phylogenetic community structure of soil invertebrate ecosystem engineers : global to local patterns, implications for ecosystem functioning and services and global environmental change impacts / Lijbert Brussaard [and others] -- Climate change and soil biotic carbon cycling / Nicholas J. Ostle and Susan E. Ward -- The impact of nitrogen enrichment on ecosystems and their services / Peter Manning -- Urbanization, soils, and ecosystem services / Mitchell A. Pavao-Zuckerman -- Management of grassland systems, soil, and ecosystem services / Phil Murray, Felicity Crotty, and Nick van Eekeren -- Soil productivity and erosion / Kristof Van Oost and Martha M. Bakker -- Agroforestry and soil health : linking trees, soil biota, and ecosystem services / Edmundo Barrios [and others] -- Soil health : the concept, its role, and strategies for monitoring / Douglas L. Karlen -- Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services / Michel A. Cavigelli, Jude E. Maul, and Katalin Szlavecz -- Soil ecosystem resilience and recovery / A. Stuart Grandy, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, and Sharon A. Billings -- Applying soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services / Sara G. Baer, Liam Heneghan, and Valerie T. Eviner.

Sec. 1. The living soil and ecosystem services -- Sec. 2. From genes to ecosystem services -- Sec. 3. Community structure and biotic assemblages -- Sec. 4. Global changes -- Sec. 5. Sustainable soils.