Abstract:
The article represents a review of some scientific articles that reflect the theme of the contribution of the soil microbiome to ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are the benefits that people derive from ecosystems. Humans tend to improve their well-being by altering ecological processes in order to maximize the production of specific ecosystem services, and often cause unintended and undesirable side effects. Soils provide and regulate a large number of ecosystem services and play an important role in sustaining humanity. The ecosystem services provided by soil arise from complex interactions between ecological structures and processes and are inconceivable without the participation of microorganisms. Microorganisms have stimulatory or inhibitory effects on plants by releasing metabolites with a broad spectrum of action. Microbial communities are primarily responsible for soil homeostatic capacities to remove contaminants and provide key ecosystem-supporting and regulatory services, such as soil fertility, resilience and resistance to various types of stress.
