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Fauna in Soil Ecosystems

By: G Benckiser
400 pages, illustrated
Publisher: CRC Press
Fauna in Soil Ecosystems
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  • Fauna in Soil Ecosystems ISBN: 9780824797867 Hardback Jan 1997 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1 week
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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.

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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.

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By: G Benckiser
400 pages, illustrated
Publisher: CRC Press
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