The recent past has seen a tremendous surge in soil macroecological studies and new insights into the global drivers of one‐quarter of the biodiversity of the Earth. Building on these important developments, a recent paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography outlined promising methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology. Among other recommendations, White and colleagues introduced the concept of a spatial three‐dimensionality in soil macroecology by considering the different spheres of influence and scales, as soil organism size ranges vary from bacteria to macro‐ and megafauna. Here, we extend this concept by discussing three additional dimensions (biological, physical, and societal) that are crucial to steer soil macroecology from pattern description towards better mechanistic understanding. In our view, these are the requirements to establish it as a predictive science that can inform policy about relevant nature and management conservation actions. We highlight the need to explore temporal dynamics of soil biodiversity and functions across multiple temporal scales, integrating different facets of biodiversity (i.e., variability in body size, life‐history traits, species identities, and groups of taxa) and their relationships to multiple ecosystem functions, in addition to the feedback effects between humans and soil biodiversity. We also argue that future research needs to consider effective soil conservation policy and management in combination with higher awareness of the contributions of soil‐based nature's contributions to people. To verify causal relationships, soil macroecology should be paired with local and globally distributed experiments. The present paper expands the multidimensional perspective on soil macroecology to guide future research contents and funding. We recommend considering these multiple dimensions in projected global soil biodiversity monitoring initiatives.

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土壤宏观生态学的多维性

最近，土壤宏观生态学研究激增，对地球生物多样性四分之一的全球驱动因素有了新的见解。在这些重要发展的基础上，全球生态与生物地理学的最新论文概述了促进土壤宏观生态学的有前途的方法和方法。在其他建议中，怀特及其同事通过考虑影响和规模的不同领域，介绍了土壤宏观生态学中空间三维的概念，因为土壤有机体的大小范围从细菌到大型动物和大型动物都不同。在这里，我们通过讨论三个附加维度（生物学，物理和社会）扩展了这个概念，这三个维度对于引导土壤宏观生态学从模式描述转向更好的机械理解至关重要。我们认为，这些是将其确立为可以为有关自然和管理保护措施提供政策依据的预测科学的要求。我们强调需要探索多个时间尺度上的土壤生物多样性及其功能的时空动态，除了人类与土壤生物多样性之间的反馈效应外，还应整合生物多样性的不同方面（即，体型，生活史特征，物种身份和分类群的变异性）及其与多种生态系统功能的关系。我们还认为，未来的研究需要结合对基于土壤的自然对人类的贡献的更高认识，考虑有效的土壤保护政策和管理。为了验证因果关系，应将土壤宏观生态学与本地和全球分布的实验配对。本文扩展了土壤宏观生态学的多维视角，以指导未来的研究内容和资助。我们建议在预计的全球土壤生物多样性监测计划中考虑这些多个方面。