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 intera |
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Protozoa Recyclers and Indicators of Agroecosystem Quality | 63 |
Nematodes Harmful and Beneficial Organisms | 85 |
Enchytraeids | 135 |
Earthworms Lumbricidae Oligochaeta Important Promoters of Soil Development and Soil Fertility | 173 |
Springtails and Mites Important Knots in the Food Web of Soils | 225 |
Gastropods Isopods Diplopods and Chilopods Neglected Groups of the Decomposer Food Web | 265 |
Spiders Carabids and Staphylinids The Ecological Potential of Predatory Macroarthropods | 307 |
Soil Food Web Interactions and Modeling | 363 |
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abundance activity agricultural amounts animal application arable areas arthropods bacteria Biochem Biol biological biomass body carabids caused cereal changes Chapter Collembola communities contribution crop cultivation cycling cyst density depend distribution earthworms Ecol ecological ecosystems Edwards effects enchytraeid Environ estimated et al example experiments extraction factors fauna feeding Fertil field Figure forest fungi grassland groups growth habitat heavy higher impact important increase influence interactions land less levels litter living London manure material methods microbial mineralization natural nematodes nitrogen numbers nutrient observed occur organic organic matter parasitic Pedobiologia pest pesticides plant populations practices predators preference prey processes production protozoa range rates reduced residues role root sampling sewage sludge soil Soil Biol soil fauna Source species spiders staphylinids structure studies surface Table temperature terrestrial tion wastes