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Pedosphere: A Hot Spot of the Largest and Most Complex Diversity of Microorganisms Among Terrestrial Ecosystems

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The pedosphere is the outer layer of the earth and is a big habitat for different types of flora and fauna. The microbial biodiversity is not only complex in their physiological aspects, but their behaviour and efficiency to regulate all bio-geochemical cycles are also typical in a particular site. The interaction of all kind of microflora and microfauna with plant roots and other meso- and macroflora and meso- and macrofauna makes the pedosphere a hub for the most suitable habitat for all forms of biodiversity. This huge bioreserve of pedosphere is comprised by bacteria and Archaea, fungi, protists and many more eukaryotes, such as nematodes, oribatid, mites, centipedes and millipedes, enchytraeids, tardigrades, springtails, ants, ground beetles and earthworms. Soil biota, especially the microforms, is responsible to create life dynamics in pedosphere. Most of them are involved in beneficial plant growth-promoting activity and play important role to maintain the food web. As per the weight of microbial carbon per gram of the soil bacteria contributed with highest numbers of about 1 billion, actinomycetes are several hundred million, fungi are 10–20 million, algae are 10,000 to 3 million, protozoa cells are up to 1 million, and nematodes are 50 or more. The present chapter provides an insight about the microbial biodiversity of the pedosphere which makes it a lining and dynamic system to sustain life.

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  1. Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, G.B.P.U.A. & T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

    Manisha Rani

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Rani, M. (2022). Pedosphere: A Hot Spot of the Largest and Most Complex Diversity of Microorganisms Among Terrestrial Ecosystems. In: Giri, B., Kapoor, R., Wu, QS., Varma, A. (eds) Structure and Functions of Pedosphere. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8770-9_4

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