A Handbook of Tropical Soil Biology: Sampling and Characterization of Below-ground Biodiversity

ISBN-13: 9781844075935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 218 str.

Moreira, Fatima M. S.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface * 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 * Index

O autorze

Fatima M. S. Moreira is associate professor of soil microbiology and biochemistry in the Soil Science Department, 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, Queen Mary University of London, UK and visiting professor, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.