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Soil Organisms presents high-level research results, review papers, and a number of other formats in English covering the complete field of soil biology, including taxonomy and systematics, soil ecology (including interactions), biogeography, morphology, conservation, evolution and ecosystem functions. Unique among soil-biological journals, Soil Organisms especially considers the organismic aspects of soil biology. Soil Organisms is committed to fair open-access publishing, which is why we offer online open access publishing of all papers without any publication fees.

Publication Frequency: Three issues per year (April, August, December)
Next Issue: April

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Vol. 97 No. 3 (2025)
Front cover 97(3) Reductoniscus tuberculatus Photo: Benedikt Kästle

Isopoda, Earthworm traits, Soil fauna-mediated decomposition, Phylogeographic patterns in Collembola, Tropical soil ecology

Published: 2025-12-01

CALL FOR COLLABORATION

  • OniscidBase: A call for contributions to a global database to advance terrestrial isopod research

    Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Pallieter De Smedt, Daria M. Kuznetsova, Stijn Segers, Pietro Gardini, Elisabeth Hornung, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Raúl Orihuela-Rivero, Jairo Robla, Katalin Szlavecz, Paula B. de Araujo, Sandra Barantal, Matty P. Berg, Maria Elina Bichuette, Stephanie Binder, Pepijn Boeraeve, Victoria J. Burton, Philipp S. Byzov, Ivanklin Soares Campos Filho, Matthieu Chauvat, Mathieu Coulis, Pierre Ganault, Matteo Ganz, Mickael Hedde, Charlene Janion-Scheepers, Chao Jiang, Nathan T. Jones, Benedikt Kästle, Weichun Li, Michael T. Marx, Maria Minor, Giuseppe Montesanto, Michael Steinwandter, Artur Szpalek, Wouter B. van der Vegt, Andrey S. Zaitsev, Stefano Taiti
    247–269

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