If you think about the disappearance of native bees, it coincides with the disappearance of native species of plants, native soil, microbiota, everything that eats bees, or everything that eats pollinated fruits or seeds or nuts.

如果你想想本地蜂类的消失，它与本地植物物种、本地土壤、微生物群、所有吃蜂类的东西或所有吃授粉的水果、种子或坚果的东西的消失是一致的。

Microbes in the soil can also produce nitrogen for the crop.

土壤中的微生物也可以为农作物产生氮。

Because a new study shows that temperature controls where soil-dwelling microbes live.

因为一项新研究显示气温能控制土壤微生物在哪生存。

And even though composting is all about getting friendly soil organisms to break stuff down for us, we don't want them to get too excited.

尽管堆肥是为让土壤微生物来帮我们分解物质，但我们并它们太活跃。

They use a soil microbe to transform loose aggregates, like sand or crushed stone, into a biofabricated, or biocement, brick.

们使用一种土壤微生物，将砂砾或类的颗粒转换成生物制造的砖头，又称生物水泥砖。

A few years back, scientists found a soil microbe called Chromobacterium CspP living in the guts of mosquitoes in Panama.

几年前, 科学家们在巴拿马的蚊子身上发现了一种被称为色素细菌CspP的土壤微生物。

We try to feed the microbes in the soil to help do the work, to help grow the grass.

我们也试着培育土壤里的微生物来帮助土壤生长。

There is more microorganisms in this teaspoon of soil from this farm than there are people on the planet.

这个农场的一茶匙土壤中有的微生物数量比地球上的人还多。

So they even started to say, oh yeah, preserve the microbes in the soil like granddad used to do.

所以们甚至开始说，哦，是的，我们应该像爷爷以前做的那样保护土壤中的微生物。

But the weirdest reason it's tough to compost meat and dairy is how delicious soil microbes find animal protein.

但最奇怪的理由是，把要肉和奶制品制成堆肥，是很困难的，因为土壤微生物会发现动物蛋白非常“美味”。

And so, we invented fertilizer and we've caused those microbes in the soil to go into hibernation.

所以我们发明了肥料，使土壤中的微生物进入冬眠状态。

So, when we started breeding plants so that every harvest would produce more yield, we needed more nitrogen than the microbe in the soil could provide.

所以当我们开始耕种时每次收成都会产生更多产量的植物，我们需要的氮比土壤中的微生物可以提供的要多。

The planet also relies on soil microbiomes for other essential services.

地球还依赖土壤微生物群提供其必可少的服务。

And then the soil microbes are decomposing things.

然后土壤微生物正在分解东西。

Researchers are still working to fully understand our microbiomes, let alone plant or soil microbiomes.

研究人员仍在努力全面了解我们的微生物群，更用说植物或土壤的微生物群了。

Well, it may be biological processes that occur in the soil in the winter, that cause increased shrub growth in the summer, and here's how: there are " microbes" , microscopic organisms that live in the soil.

嗯，可能是冬天在土壤中发生的生物过程，导致夏季灌木生长增加， 方法如下：有“微生物” ，生活在土壤中的微生物。

Monoculture that destroys the microbes in the soil and the micronutrient content, phytochemical content in food, that loss of biodiversity is directly affecting our biodiversity and loss of biodiversity in our gut.

单一栽培破坏土壤中的微生物及食物中的微量营养素和植物化学物质含量，这种生物多样性的丧失正直接影响我们体内的生物多样性，导致肠道内生物多样性的减少。

Pivot, based in Berkeley, California, sells tinctures that are meant to improve soil microbiomes, designed based on sequences of the genomes of the microbes in a given field.

Pivot 总部位于加利福尼亚州伯克利，销售用于改善土壤微生物群的酊剂，这种酊剂是根据特定田地中的微生物基因组序列设计的。

Apparently, the TikTokers are claiming that one teaspoon of organic biodynamic soil has more microorganisms than there are humans on Earth and can help reduce acne and wrinkles.

显然，抖音用户们声称，一茶匙的有机生物动力土壤所含的微生物数量比地球上的人口还要多，并且能帮助减少粉刺和皱纹。

And because Hazen and Brown reasoned that soil was this battleground for all sorts of microbes, they're all like, let's bring out the big guns.

哈森和布朗推断，土壤是各种微生物的战场，因此们决定采取强硬措施。