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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the GSBI Newsletter - Jan 2022.

Apologies for any cross-posting.



*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

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From: Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 06:00
Subject: GSBI Newsletter - Jan 2022
To: <[log in to unmask]>


January 2022 Newsletter
On behalf of everyone at the GSBI, thank you partners, collaborators,
bloggers, speakers, researchers, and soil biodiversity lovers for your
enthusiasm, dedication, and support of soil biodiversity science and
initiatives. We cannot be a successful initiative without you! Here are a
few of your contributions in 2021:


   - Your contributions and attendance for the first-ever UN FAO Global
   Soil Biodiversity Symposium
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   and associated Outcomes document
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   .
   - Your interest and participation in the SoilBON
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   initiative.
   - Your support of and contributions to the UN Global Soil Partnership's
   newly formed International Network Network (NETSOB)
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   and its Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory (GLOSOB).
   - Amazing contributions to the GSBI webinar series "GSBI Speaks"
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and
   celebration of soil biodiversity at World Soil Day
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   - Our sessions and talks at the Ecological Society of America, Soil
   Science Society of America, and American Geophysical Union
   - Many fantastic GSBI blogs
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featuring
   global soil biodiversity science.


We hope that you will continue to help us in our efforts to keep soil
biodiversity in the forefront of global environmental policy in 2022, and
we wish you a safe, healthy, and Happy New Year!
Sincerely,
The GSBI Secretariat
Congratulations Lydie-Stella Koutika
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Glinka World Soil Prize recipient!
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Congratulations to the recipient of the Glinka World Soil Prize, Lydie-Stella
Koutika of the Research Center on the Productivity and Sustainability of
Industrial Plantations (CRDPI), Republic of Congo! Koutika's current
research focuses on soil biota and its role in nutrient cycling (especially
phosphorus) and organic material content in plantation forest systems. Her
work focuses on improving sustainability in food production and the
livelihoods of growers in the Republic of Congo, and increasing knowledge
of soil ecology in Africa. Congratulations!
Announcing the next "GSBI Speaks" webinar:

Toward a global soil biodiversity observatory
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January 12, 2022 8:00-10:00 am MT, 16:00-18:00 CET
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Register today
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Thanks to all who attended the last webinar!
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If you missed the December webinar, "The underestimated role of soil animal
diversity in bioturbation", watch it here
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!
GSBI Blog "Beneath Our Feet
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Have we overlooked the importance of soil micronutrients for global
grassland biomass production?
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Dajana Radujković and Sara Vicca, University of Antwerp, Belgium, discuss
their new paper in Ecology Letters
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SPUN receives largest-ever donation to map,
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conserve, and protect fungal networks
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The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)
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co-founded by Toby Kiers and Colin Averill, recently received a
record-breaking, multi-million dollar donation to map, conserve, and
protect underground fungal networks. You can learn more about SPUN on the SPUN
website
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and more about the donation on the GSBI website
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Announcing the launch of the UN-FAO Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory
(GLOSOB)!

On December 3, 2021, the International Network on Soil Biodiversity
(NETSOB)
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the UN FAO and GSP's Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory (GLOSOB) was
launched to begin to monitor, conserve, and restore soil biodiversity and
its associated ecosystem services. A Chairperson and four Vice-chairs were
elected to organize and set goals for the initiative and its four working
groups. Congratulations to the elected leadership!

Chairperson of the NETSOB, Peter de Ruiter, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands

Technical WG1: measurement, assessment and monitoring of soil biodiversity
Vice-chair George Brown, EMPRAPA, Brazil

Technical WG2: Sustainable use and management, and conservation of soil
biodiversity
Vice-chair Zöe Lindo, Western University, Canada

Technical WG 3: Economics of soil biodiversity
Vice-chair Gian Luca Bagnara, Agribusiness consulting and economics of
territory, Italy

Technical WG 4: Policies and legal instruments related to soil biodiversity
Vice-chair Rosalina González, LaSalle University, Colombia
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