Fauna in Soil Ecosystems - Recycling Processes, Nutrient Fluxes, and Agricultural Production

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.

Sommario

Organic inputs and soil metabolism; protozoa - recyclers and indicators of agroecosystem quality; nematodes - harmful and beneficial organisms; enchytraeids; earthworms (lumbricidae - oligochaeta) - important promoters of soil development and soil fertility; springtails and mites - important knots in the food web of soils; gastropods, isopods, diplopods and chilopods - neglected groups of the decomposer food web; spiders, carabids and staphylinids - the ecological potential of predatory macroarthropods; soil-food web interactions and their modelling.

Info autore

Gero Benckiser

Riassunto

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. This text covers morphology, reproduction, abundances, basic requirements, competition, predation, nutrient cycling and phytopathological interactions.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Gero Benckiser (Editore), Gero (Institut fur Angewandte Mikrobiologie Benckiser (Editore), Benckiser Gero (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.01.1997
• EAN: 9780824797867
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-9786-7
• Pagine: 428
• Peso: 771 g
• Serie: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment; Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Botanica; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Botany & plant sciences, Agricultural science, Animal Ecology, Zoology and animal sciences, Soil science, sedimentology, Botany and plant sciences, Soil science and management, Sedimentology and pedology