Soils host an important biodiversity. They are essential to produce food and play a key role in soil biogeochemical cycles. At theglobal scale, a third of the soils are degraded. To preserve and restore the soils, we need to better understand the processes thatsupport their functioning, notably the ecological processes. Soil biodiversity play a fundamental role in soil functioning, but westill have an incomplete understanding on the mechanisms that explain it. One neglected aspect is how the complexity of the soilhabitat modulate the activity of the diversity of soil organisms and their interaction, notably trophic ones. Another understudiedaspect relates to the effect of soil organisms on soil structure. Most evidences come from the study ...