Soil Biochemistry: |:, Volume 9Guenther Stotzky Provides up-to-date reviews on the conditions that affect the quality of soil and on the methods to measure the effects of soil management and bioremediation--focusing on indigenous or introduced microorganisms with the capacity to remediate pollutants. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Soil Structure and Biological Activity | 23 |
4 | 70 |
56 | 77 |
Soil as a Catalytic System | 81 |
Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors | 115 |
Liliana Gianfreda and JeanMarc Bollag | 123 |
Do Enzymes Exist That Are Unique to Soil? | 132 |
Conclusions | 280 |
A Critical Analysis of Methods for Determining the | 287 |
The Challenge of Understanding In Situ Microbial | 293 |
Strategies for Avoiding Laboratory Artifacts in Describing | 309 |
Methods for Identifying Microorganisms Responsible | 337 |
Conclusions and Future Prospects | 347 |
Soil Suppressiveness to Diseases Induced by Soilborne | 371 |
Involvement of Microbial Metabolites in Disease | 382 |
Factors Affecting Enzyme Activity in Soil | 142 |
Conclusions | 174 |
Microbial Processes in Boreal Forest Soils as Affected | 195 |
Forests on Peatlands | 213 |
References | 219 |
Enumeration and Expression of Bacterial Counts | 233 |
Expression of Results | 240 |
Bacterial Movement Through Soil | 253 |
Concepts and Models of the Movement of Bacteria in Soil | 272 |
Prospects for Disease Management | 393 |
Fractals in General Soil Science and in Soil Biology | 415 |
Fractals in General Soil Science | 424 |
Fractal Analysis of Proteins Including Enzymes | 433 |
Conclusions and Recommendations | 465 |
Physicochemical Factors and Their Potential for | 482 |
Biological Factors | 517 |
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