Handbook / Manual
Edited By: Fatima MS Moreira, E Jeroen Huising and David E Bignell
218 pages, Col plates, figs, tabs
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This practical handbook describes sampling and laboratory assessment methods for the biodiversity of a number of key functional groups of soil organisms, including insects, earthworms, nematodes, fungi and bacteria. The methods have been assembled and the protocols drafted by a number of scientists associated with the UNEPGEF funded Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-Ground Biodiversity project, executed by the Tropical Soil Biodiversity and Fertility (TSBF) institute of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
The methods provide a standardized basis for characterizing soil biodiversity occurring in terrestrial natural and agro-ecosystems in the tropics and current land uses in forest and forest margin areas. The aim is to assess soil biodiversity against current and historic land use practices both at plot and landscape scales, and further to identify opportunities for improved sustainable land management through the introduction and/or management of soil biota, thus reducing the need for external inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides. The book does not contain identification keys as such, but there is extensive advice on the handling of specimens and the allocation of organisms to strain or functional group type.
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Preface; Inventory of Soil Biological Diversity: Concepts and General Guidelines; Sampling Strategy and Design to Evaluate Below-ground Biodiversity; Macrofauna; Soil Collembola, Acari, other Mesofauna and Macrofauna - Berlese-Tullgren Method; Soil Nematodes; Nitrogen-fixing Leguminosae-nodulating Bacteria; Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi; Saprophytic and Plant Pathogenic Soil Fungi; Entomopathogenic Fungi and Nematodes; Fruit Fly Larvae; Description and Classification of Land Use at Sampling Locations for the Inventory of Below-ground Biodiversity; Index.
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Fatima M.S. Moreira is Associate Professor of Soil Science, Federal University of Lavras, Brazil. E. Jeroen Huising is a Senior Scientist at the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility institute of CIAT, Nairobi, Kenya. David E. Bignell is Professor of Zoology, University of London, UK, and Visiting Professor, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, University of Malaysia at Sabah.
Handbook / Manual
Edited By: Fatima MS Moreira, E Jeroen Huising and David E Bignell
218 pages, Col plates, figs, tabs
'This practical manual, written by an accomplished and international team of experts, will help us to unlock further the secrets of the rich tropical soil biota and the generation of tropical soil fertility. It will thereby help us in the conservation and sustainable management of one of the Earth's most valuable assets' - Goetz Schroth, Conservation International.