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Comprehensive guide to biological diversity and function in soils. Topics covered include: Developing new ecological perspectives from advances in soil biodiversity research; Characterisation of Soil Biodiversity; Twenty years of molecular microbial ecology: what have we learned?; The causes and consequences of microbial diversity; Patterns and determinants of belowground diversity; Functional Importance of Soil Biodiversity: Carbon as a substrate; Biodiversity of saprotrophic fungi in relation to their function; Microbial community composition and soil N cycling: is there really a connection?; Soil biodiversity and the composition of plant communities; Trophic assembly and functional redundancy in soil communities; System Linkages: How does the physics of the soil system dictate soil ecological processes?; Plant community composition and diversity: consequences for the decomposer subsystem; Does rhizosphere C flow drive soil biodiversity?; Is diversity of mycorrhizal fungi important for ecosystem functioning?; The balance between productivity and community structure in soil food webs; Soil Biodiversity and Environmental Change; Soil biodiversity in rapidly changing tropical landscapes: scaling down and scaling up; The response of the soil bacterial community to perturbation; Climate change and soil biodiversity; Applications of Soil Biodiversity: Soil biodiversity: indicating stress and managing change in the evolutionary playground; Restoration ecology and the role of soil biodiversity; Soil biodiversity, nature conservation and sustainability; Underview - origins and consequences of belowground biodiversity; Index.