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

土壤中的微生物也可以为作物产生氮。

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。

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。

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”。

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

这个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.

所以他们甚至开始说，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。

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。

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

他们使用一种土壤微生物，将砂砾或碎石之类的碎颗粒转换成生物制造的砖，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为色素细菌CspP的土壤微生物。

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，更不用说植物或土壤的微生物群了。

The soil is full of microbes.

土壤中富含微生物。

And in one teaspoon of soil, there are more microorganisms than there are people on the Earth.

在一茶匙土壤中，微生物的数量比地球上的人口还要多。

As an ecologist and climate scientist, I've been studying the microbes that live in soil for 20 years now.

作为一名生态学家和气候科学家，我研究土壤中的微生物已有20年了。

That's because plants trap carbon dioxide by photosynthesis, and soil microbes emit it by the process of respiration.

这是因为植物通过光合作用捕获二氧化碳，而土壤微生物通过呼吸过程释放二氧化碳。

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他必不可少的服务。

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，但我们并不希望它们太活跃。

Another way that soil microbiomes can be part of the climate change solution is by building healthy soil.

另一种方式是通过建立健康的土壤，使土壤微生物群成为解决气候变化的一部分。

They may be harder to see, but microbiomes in the soil are just as important as the human or ocean microbiome.

它们可能更难被看到，但土壤中的微生物群与人体或海洋中的微生物群一样重要。

Like indigo's researchers, Cassandra Alsup, Isabel George, and Richard Lankow of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been looking at soil microbes.

像靛蓝公司的研究人员一样，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的卡桑德拉·阿尔斯普、伊莎贝尔·乔治和理查德·兰科夫也在研究土壤微生物。