Soil microbiome and forensics
 

                Soil traces are easily transferred and carried by everyday items like shoes,
clothes, cars. The high sensitivity and analytical powers of modern molecular ecology
tools can make the enormous biological diversity found in soils a resource that forensics
investigations may benefit from. Our aims are to increase conceptual understanding of
microbial distribution in soils across short and long distances, soil types, seasons and
disturbances and apply this knowledge to forensics so that the soil microbiome becomes
part of the forensics toolbox.

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                                                              Soils can be differentiated using very small samples. This differentiation 
                                                  applies not only between but also to spots within the same soil type within a specific
                                                  location. However, local conditions are prominent over soil type to determine community 
                                                  composition, thereby providing different indicators for different geographical scales

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