Open letter: A global call to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization

César Marín; Carlos Barreto; Brajesh K. Singh; Peter C. de Ruiter; George G. Brown; Jeff Battigelli; Gian Luca Bagnara; Rosalina González; Carlos Guerra; Xin Sun; Tara Dirilgen; Jacob Ulzen; Giulio Malorgio; Luca Montanarella; Claudia Coleine; Leena Vilonen; J. Jacob Parnell; Joseph Edwards; Heba Alfares; Gandhiv Kafle; Nasradeen A. H. Gadallah; Hannah Karuri; Arindam Roy; Edward Yeboah; Punyasloke Bhadury; David Kothamasi; Niraj Agarwala; Sukumar Debnath; Thilina Surasinghe; Frank Ashwood; Tushar Kumar; Pawan Kumar; Samina Siddiqui; Jane Gicheha; Petr Heděnec; Rachid Sabbahi; Jasper Wubs; Zhuang Ge; Andrey Zaitsev; Loris Galli; Sunil Mundra; Prabavathy Vaiyapuri Ramalingam; Kate Buckeridge; Partha Pratim Chakravorty; Raquel Juan‐Ovejero; Tobias Pfingstl; Samuel Eziuzor; David Elliott; Derrick Y. F. Lai; Sören Thiele‐Bruhn; Guille Peguero; Israel Ikoyi

doi:10.1002/ppp3.70121

Open letter: A global call to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization

César Marín
, Carlos Barreto
, Brajesh K. Singh
, Peter C. de Ruiter
, George G. Brown
, Jeff Battigelli
, Gian Luca Bagnara
, Rosalina González
, Carlos Guerra
, Xin Sun
, Tara Dirilgen
, Jacob Ulzen
, Giulio Malorgio
, Luca Montanarella
, Claudia Coleine
, Leena Vilonen
, J. Jacob Parnell
, Joseph Edwards
, Heba Alfares
, Gandhiv Kafle

Nasradeen A. H. Gadallah, Hannah Karuri, Arindam Roy, Edward Yeboah, Punyasloke Bhadury, David Kothamasi, Niraj Agarwala, Sukumar Debnath, Thilina Surasinghe, Frank Ashwood, Tushar Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Samina Siddiqui, Jane Gicheha, Petr Heděnec, Rachid Sabbahi, Jasper Wubs, Zhuang Ge, Andrey Zaitsev, Loris Galli, Sunil Mundra, Prabavathy Vaiyapuri Ramalingam, Kate Buckeridge, Partha Pratim Chakravorty, Raquel Juan‐Ovejero, Tobias Pfingstl, Samuel Eziuzor, David Elliott, Derrick Y. F. Lai, Sören Thiele‐Bruhn, Guille Peguero, Israel Ikoyi

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Soil biodiversity remains one of the least systematically studied components of global biodiversity, largely invisible in policy agendas. A coordinated soil biodiversity monitoring approach is urgently needed to enable national‐level action.

Original language	English
Journal	Plants People Planet
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70121
Publication status	Published - 19 Oct 2025

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Marín, C., Barreto, C., Singh, B. K., de Ruiter, P. C., Brown, G. G., Battigelli, J., Bagnara, G. L., González, R., Guerra, C., Sun, X., Dirilgen, T., Ulzen, J., Malorgio, G., Montanarella, L., Coleine, C., Vilonen, L., Parnell, J. J., Edwards, J., Alfares, H., ... Ikoyi, I. (2025). Open letter: A global call to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization. Plants People Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70121

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