Matthias C. Rillig

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Direkter Link zum Buch: Mutter Erde

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(S+) Umweltschutz: Wie der Verlust des Bodens unseren Planeten bedroht - Auszug aus »Mutter Erde« Menschliche Eingriffe haben mehr als ein Drittel aller Landflächen bereits verletzt oder sogar zerstört. Doch wir können nur überleben, wenn wir den Boden und seine geheimnisvollen Bewohner erhalten.

Im SPIEGEL ist ein kleiner Auszug aus dem neuen Buch "Mutter Erde" erschienen (hinter Bezahlschranke): Das wertvolle Reich unter unseren Füßen.

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Urban soils and their biodiversity: sealed surfaces What about sealed surfaces in the city? Are they mostly 'dead'?

Urban soils and their biodiversity: sealed surfaces

What’s under sealed surfaces (parking lots, buildings, roads) in the city? How much life is in that soil? Just wondering about the not-so-obvious aspects of urban soils

What do you think?

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Thanks!

Spray paint-derived microplastics influence soil properties and microbial activity through their composite composition Paint-derived microplastics (MPs) are increasingly recognized as an overlooked but potentially significant source of terrestrial pollution. To investi…

New paper out:

Xu et al. in J Haz Mat

Spray paint-derived microplastics influence soil properties and microbial activity through their composite composition

A collaboration of several people in my group, expanding on our earlier work on spray paints.

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Back home in Berlin after an exciting 4 weeks in China, and very happy to hold my book in my hands for the first time.

I was very happy to be able to address the National Mycorrhiza Meeting, talking about our recent work on common mycorrhizal networks.
Pics by B. Chen.

Today, I gave a presentation on our work on multiple global change factors at Northwest A & F University, hosted by Quan Wang.

Danke!

Danke! Ich hoffe, dass Leute es interessant finden.... 😀

Looking forward to giving a seminar at Tsinghua University tomorrow (and to a visit to the wonderful art museum there).

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Ich hoffe, dass es hilft Menschen für die wunderbare Welt des Bodens zu begeistern. Aber auch für die Wissenschaft, die hinter diesen Erkenntnissen steht.

Hier der Link zum Buch:
www.ullstein.de/werke/mutter...

Morgen (am 25.9.25) erscheint mein Buch "Mutter Erde", geschrieben gemeinsam mit dem Wissenschaftsjournalisten Jörg Blech. Im Buch schildere ich auch den wissenschaftlichen Prozess der Erforschung des Bodens und seiner Ökologie.

Good point, yes!

Oh thank you! :)

My pleasure to make a small appearance in this book! :)

We certainly do field work in my group in Berlin. And we do a lot of filling samples in little tubes :)

Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS Scientific explanation is one of the most sophisticated forms of human reasoning. Nevertheless, here we hypothesize that scientific explanation is ...

Very interesting read:

Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

At China Agricultural University, I am giving several lectures on soil ecology and also on other topics, such as creativity.
This is my 4th year teaching at CAU.

Visited amazing exhibit in the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing.
Chiharu Shiota 'Silent Emptiness'.

Microplastics and antibiotics in agricultural soil: mechanisms and implications of co-contamination The co-contamination of agricultural soils by microplastics (MPs), antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is an emerging environmental co…

Paper just out, a review paper written together with the group of Fang Wang at ISS-CAS, Nanjing

Microplastics and antibiotics in agricultural soil: mechanisms and implications of co-contamination

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Decluttering your academic life Prioritizing tasks

Decluttering your academic life: prioritizing tasks

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Very much enjoyed my visit to Beijing Normal University yesterday, delivering a talk on multi-factor global change and talking with researchers there.

Indeed!

I have been enjoying my stay at China Agricultural University, hosted by my friend Gaowen Yang, where I teach graduate students about soil ecology and global change.

Thanks!

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU

Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly

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Microbial Plastic Degradation: A Solution or a Pollution Problem? This Viewpoint discusses how polymer microstructure influences micro- and nanoplastic formation, highlighting microbes could be a hidden driver and urging caution in promoting mitigation technologies for plastic pollution.

Here's some food for thought:

Microbial Plastic Degradation: A Solution or a Pollution Problem?

Viewpoint paper in ACS Sustainable Resource Management written w/ Deep Deb

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An art gallery of science? And why does this make sense?

An art gallery of science?

What would your art gallery of ecology look like.....?

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Enjoyed my visit today to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Beautiful new campus near a lake and mountains. Great to meet Prof. Yanfen Wang and colleagues.