Welcome to Living Soils

Soil is more that just "brown stuff". It is home to many living things.

What lives in the soil?

What do they do?

Click on the topics to begin investigating

• The Underworld
  Invertebrate animals
• Soil Food Web
• Roles of Soil Organisms
• Management effects on soil biota
• Adaptations of Life in Soil
• Factors Affecting Soil Biota

Living Soils was written by: Dr. Kathy King - School of Environmental & Rural Science - University of New England - Australia.
Images taken by Dr. Kathy King and created by School of Environmental & Rural Science.