UGentSoilLab is composed of the research groups belonging to the former department of Soil Management at UGent (currently merged into department of Environment at UGent) and thus spans a wide range of disciplines of applied soil science, including soil fertility, soil chemistry, soil physics, soil biology, soil degradation and soil conservation, soil genesis, soil pollution, geostatistics, site specific soil management. We do research on soils in both ecosystems with strong human influence (agricultural, urban) and in natural ecosystems, in the context of themes relevant to society such as sustainable crop production, soil biodiversity, land degradation, the role of soils in climate change (mitigation).