Soil natural capital needs to be quantified in such a way that it can be integrated into environmental policy and land management decision-making to inform the provision of ecosystem services. Most of the messages that soil science needs to communicate to other disciplines can already be expressed using existing nomenclature. The natural capital and ecosystem service terminology, however, allow soil science to translate its knowledge into language that is better understood by ecologists and ecological economists. Soil science insights can then be integrated into wider system analyses that involve other components of natural and built ecological infrastructure (Bristow et al., 2010).