Soil Science in Face of New Challenges: Quo Vadis Soil Science?

Soil is a media of a harmonious flow of matter and energy in terrestrial ecosystems, a condition - ally renewable resource and a unique natural entity. As a “young science” of twentieth century Soil science started and developed dominantly within agricultural and forest sciences. Recently is on crossroads; to stay within agriculture and forestry worrying on soil fertility and other aspects of biomass production in a sustainable way, or orientation on environ mental life - sciences, studying of soil - originated terrestrial ecosystem out - puts (SOEE) , including of agro ecosystem, as opened and permanent evolution exposed system inspired by needs of ever - higher yields for feeding of increasingly population. We are witnesses of consequences of omnipresence anthropocentric position resulted by terms like; (soil) functions and/or (ecosystem) services , which suggests an unnatural, inferior position of soil/ecosystem, putting them in position “to serve”... or to b e “in function” of... We find it is wrong position! If is anybody in these relations in position to be service, it is man – Homo sapiens . Output or effect (instead of service) of soil and/or ecosystem, especially agro ecosystem is multiple and based on “in put – output” principles. We are speaking on Soil Originated Ecosystem Effects (SOEE) : productive, regulatory; storage; spatial; social and theological effects ; Very impressive: all what we see as bio - richness and biodiversity including of some anthropogenic structures and landscape/anthroscape, our body, as well as what we are eating, drinking, breathing and filling (our soul) is soil - inspired, soil - originated and/or soil related/oriented. Quo vadis Soil science? Let us to con clude; the right and correct position of Soil science is within Ecological sciences!