The collection of articles on soil ecology in the science magazine ’Frontiers for Young Minds’ is intended to motivate children to explore the natural world around them. (Image: 2022 Olivia Azevedo and Frank Ashwood/frym.2022.652660)
The collection of articles on soil ecology in the science magazine 'Frontiers for Young Minds' is intended to motivate children to explore the natural world around them. (Image: 2022 Olivia Azevedo and Frank Ashwood/frym. Inspiring children around the globe to learn about soil diversity - that is the aim of an initiative launched by Malte Jochum, an ecologist at the University of Würzburg. What lives in the soil beneath our feet? How important is a functioning ecosystem in the soil for our health? And: How do we actually protect the biodiversity down there? Answers to these and similar questions about biodiversity can be found in an exciting collection of articles specially prepared for children and published in the science magazine "Frontiers for Young Minds". The 33 articles were curated and edited by Würzburg ecologist Malte Jochum, Junior Professor of Above-belowground Interaction Ecology at the University of Würzburg (JMU), together with Helen Phillips and Remy Beugnon, both former researchers at Leipzig University and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), like Malte Jochum. Initially, the 2020-2022 collection of articles was only published in English. However, on the initiative of the Leipzig team, international researchers and volunteers joined forces to translate it into as many languages as possible and thus make it accessible to children worldwide free of charge.
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