A handbook of tropical soil biology : sampling and characterization of below-ground biodiversity / edited by Fatima M.S. Moreira, E. Jeroen Huising and David E. Bignell.
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.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- The inventory of soil biological diversity: concepts and general guidelines
- Sampling strategy and design to evaluate below-ground biodiversity
- Macrofauna
- Soil collembola, acari and other mesofauna
- the Berlese method
- Soil nematodes
- Nitrogen-fixing leguminosae-nodulating bacteria
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)
- Saprophytic and plant pathogenic soil fungi
- Sampling, conserving and identifying fruit flies
- Entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes
- Description and classification of land use at sampling locations for the inventory of below-ground biodiversity.