The Living Soil

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Topics covered include: The Soil as an Ecological System; The Building Blocks of the Soil System: Inert Constituents and Living Organisms; Soil Properties; Life in Action; Formation, Development, and classification of soils; The forms of Soil Humus. The Topics in Soil Biology covered are: Soil and Vegetation: Relations at many levels; Dead, Wood, Excrements, Carcasses, and Gravel: Soil Appendages; Arrested Decomposition; Food Chains and Webs in the Soil; Soil Symbioses; and Soil Biology in the Future,