The European Journal of Soil Science (EJSS) is an international journal that publishes outstanding papers in soil science that advance the theoretical and mechanistic understanding of physical, chemical and biological processes and their interactions in soils acting from molecular to continental scales in natural and managed environments, as well as descriptions of data sets that contribute to these goals.


The aims of the EJSS are as follows:

• further our understanding of chemical, physical and biological processes in soils and their interactions which define and control soil function, development and distribution
• demonstrate novel applications of contemporary analytical, mathematical and theoretical approaches to advance our understanding of soils
• contribute to interdisciplinary understanding of soil function and ecosystem service provision by soils within a wider, global context
• assess soil biodiversity, its functions and interactions with soil properties
• explain the detailed processes and mechanisms by which soils react to, and interact with, changes imposed by the wider environment or by direct human intervention (e.g. climate change, pollution and land use practices)
• understand the role of soils in human health, i.e., cause and remediation of disease, toxicity and pollution
• develop novel approaches, techniques and methods to obtain new understanding of soils in relation to socioeconomics and policy

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Jenni Dungait, University of Exeter, UK
E-mail: editor.ejss@soils.org.uk

Deputy Editors
John Scullion, Aberystwyth University, Inst of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth, UK
Rob Bryant, School of Engineering, Swansea, UK
Olaf Schmidt, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Gerard Heuvelink, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Associate Editors
Louise Andresen, Gothenburg, Sweden
Rebekka Artz, Aberdeen, UK
Marc Auffret, Edinburgh, UK
Thomas Baumgartl, Brisbane, Australia
Rupert Bäumler, Erlangen, Germany
Tom Bishop, Sydney, Australia
Evgenia Blagodatskaya, Göttingen, Germany
Christina Bogner, Bayreuth, Germany
Nils Borchard, Helsinki, Finland
Fiona Brennan, Johnstown Castle, Ireland
Eric Brevik, Dickinson, USA
Ian Bull, Bristol, UK
Andrés Calderin-García, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Simona Castaldi, Naples, Italy
Carmen Castañeda, Zaragoza, Spain
Olivier Cerdan, Orleans, France
Franz Conen, Basel, Switzerland
Felcity Crotty, Cirencester, UK
Frédéric Darboux, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
Ashim Datta, Karnal, Haryana, India
Jefersen Dieckow, Curitiba-PR, Brazil
Sebastian Doetterl, Augsburg, Germany
Andrew Gregory, Harpenden, UK
Georg Guggenberger, Halle, Germany
Li Guo, Pennsylvania, USA
Paul Hallett, Aberdeen, UK
Ingrid Hallin, Edmonton, Canada
Haolong He, Yangling, China
Guy Kirk, Cranfield, UK
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Freising, Germany
Hang Li, Chongqing, China
Bernard Ludwig, Witzenhausen, Germany
Yu Luo, Hangzhou, China
Manoj Menon, Sheffield, UK
Jan Mulder, Ås, Norway
Christoph Müller, Giessen, Germany
Karin Müller, Hamilton, New Zealand
Ladisalau Martin Neto, Brasilia, Brazil
Dan Olk, Ames, USA
Bo Pan, Kunming, China
Ashok Patra, Bhopal, India
Alessandro Piccolo, Portici, Italy
Maria Rao, Naples, Italy
Suzie Reichman, Melbourne, Australia
David Rossiter, Ithaca, USA
Binoy Sarker, Sheffield, UK
Steven Sleutel, Gent, Belgium
Ron Smernik, Glen Osmond, Australia
Jose Torrent, Córdoba, Spain
Raphael Viscarra Rossel, Canberra, Australia
Bas van Wesemael, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Marc Voltz, Montpellier, France
Rota Wagai, Tsukuba, Japan
Richard Whalley, Harpenden, UK 
Fangjie Zhao, Nanjing, China

Statistics Advisory Panel
Pat Bellamy, Cranfield, UK
Dick Brus, Wageningen, The Netherlands
David Clifford, Dutton Park, Australia
Murray Lark, Keyworth, UK
Jackie Potts, Aberdeen, UK
Richard Webster, Harpenden, UK
Roger White, Harpenden, UK