To ensure all EU soils are healthy by 2050, it is of utmost importance to integrate soil biodiversity (SOB) into land management. However, SOB gets less attention in large monitoring efforts than higher plants and vertebrates. As a result, its contribution to ecosystem services (ES) is undervalued, unquantified, and is not incorporated into EU policies. By creating a comprehensive evaluation framework and determining the cost-effectiveness of SOB indicators in different ecosystems, SOB4ES aims to improve current evaluations of ecosystem condition and to increase the uptake of practical applications to enhance SOB and its contribution to ES. Above all, SOB4ES transdisciplinary perspective will allow for inclusion of social, economic and political factors to transform soils into healthy systems.
