Soil Biology in Tropical Ecosystems

Tancredo Souza is a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where his work focuses on biology and mutualistic communities, especially macroarthropod community composition, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, free-living nematodes, and N-fixing bacteria associated with exotic and native plant species. He is the editor or author of several books (e.g., Handbook of Mycorrhizal Fungi, “Biologia do Solo da Caatinga”, “Solos em sistemas agroecológicos”) and journal articles. He teaches courses on soil biology, agroecology, mycology, and biostatistics, and has recently begun investigating the effects of biological invasion on soil biota diversity in tropical seasonal dry forests, tropical forests, and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

• ​1. The soil ecosystem at the tropics.- 2. The living soil.- 3. Soil organisms and ecological processes.- 4. Plant-soil feedback.- 5. Trophic structure and soil biological communities.- 6. Land use and soil contamination in dry tropical ecosystems.- 7. Natural ecosystems and biological invasion.- 8. Natural disasters.