Welcome to Soil BON.

The Soil Biodiversity Observation Network (Soil BON) is a global partnership that is working with the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI), the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN), and other global and regional partners to make available the soil biological and ecosystem observations needed to ensure living soil resources are sustainably conserved and managed and can support essential human needs. We do this by focusing on expanding the existing Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) to target specifically soil ecological features.

Soil BON aims to support the development of a global community for the observation, understanding, and prediction of soil biodiversity, being a forum to network groups to advance methods for observing soil biodiversity including integration of information across spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales.