{"id":483,"date":"2025-09-30T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucips.ihu.gr\/soil-ecology-lab\/?page_id=483"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:00:34","slug":"our-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucips.ihu.gr\/soil-ecology-lab\/who-we-are\/our-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:10px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Our Mission<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none fusion-animated\" data-animationType=\"slideInLeft\" data-animationDuration=\"0.3\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1903\" height=\"629\" title=\"Webp.net-compress-image (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/ucips.ihu.gr\/soil-ecology-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Webp.net-compress-image-5.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-309\"\/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Soil Microbial Ecology<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our lab aims to characterize soil microbial community diversity and function, and to assess the impact of agriculture practices on soil microbial ecosystems. We investigate microbial interactions, and also relations between microorganisms and the soil physical-chemical environment or other soil biota, aiming to study in-depth the relations and interactions of organisms that belong to different levels of the soil food web.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Soil nematode community ecology<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We aim to study the taxonomic and functional diversity of nematodes in soil food webs and unravel their role in multitrophic interactions, including connections with aboveground organisms. The fast response of nematode assemblages to environmental changes (anthropogenic or natural) have converted the nematode community into a key indicator on the evaluation of soil health and quality in agricultural and natural ecosystems.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Ecology of soil enzymes<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our goal is to link soil enzyme activities to ecosystem functions. 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