Soil harbours immense biodiversity that plays crucial roles in ecosystem functioning. Although our current understanding of soil fauna relies on traditional sampling as a high-resolution benchmark, these methods are often destructive, labour-intensive and limited in temporal resolution. Recent technological advancements offer promising alternatives for real-time, low-invasive monitoring of soil meso- and macrofauna activity, o...

Background and aims Root traits of tree species are of great importance for selection of trees in dry zone agroforestry systems. Climate models predict increased frequency and severity of drought in the Sahel but our understanding on the strategies of root growth of tree species under drought is limited. To increase our knowledge of species differences in rooting patterns we investigated root growth of nine dryland tree specie...