Fauna in Soil Ecosystems: Recycling Processes, Nutrient Fluxes, and Agricultural ProductionGero Benckiser Offers an integrated presentation of the microbial, agronomic and recycling aspects of soil faunal potentials, emphasizing agricultural ecosystems and furnishing methods for modelling food webs. The text covers morphology, reproduction, abundances, basic requirements, competition, predation, parasitism, nutrient cycling and phytopathological interactions, soil physics and agricultural management, plus methods to quantify soil faunal groups. |
Contents
Contributors | 5 |
Organic Inputs and Soil Metabolism | 7 |
Recyclers and Indicators of Agroecosystem Quality | 63 |
Harmful and Beneficial Organisms | 85 |
Enchytraeids | 135 |
Oligochaeta Important Promoters | 173 |
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abundance acid activity agricultural agroecosystems amoebae Andrén aphid arthropods bacteria Benckiser Biochem biological biomass Brussaard burrow carabids cereal Chapter ciliates Collembola crop cultivation cycling cyst nematodes decomposition Didden earthworm populations earthworms Ecol ecological ecosystems effects enchytraeid Environ feeding field Foissner food webs forest fungi Fungivorous gastropods grassland groups haš habitat heavy metals impact increase influence interactions invertebrates isopods Larink larvae linyphiid litter lumbricids Lumbricus Lumbricus terrestris macrofauna Makeschin manure mesofauna methods microarthropods microbial microorganisms millipedes mineralization rates mites nitrogen mineralization numbers nutrient Oligochaeta organic matter Pedobiologia pest pesticides plant parasitic nematodes population densities potato cyst nematode potworms predators predatory prey production protozoa reduced residues rhizosphere role root rostochiensis sampling sewage sludge slugs slurry soil animals Soil Biol Soil Biology soil fauna soil organic species spiders springtails staphylinids temperature terrestrial tillage tion toxic trophic Zool Zunke