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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
Earthscan
October 2008
Hardback 256 pp ISBN 9781844076215
£85.00
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Softback 256 pp ISBN 9781844075935
£30.00
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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 UNEP-GEF
funded Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-Ground Biodiversity Project, executed by the Tropical
Soil Biology and Fertility (TSBF) Institute of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
The methods provide a standardized basis for characterizing soil biodiversity and current land uses
in terrestrial natural, semi-natural and agroecosystems in tropical forests and at forest margins. 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,
management or remediation of soil biota, thus reducing the need for external inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides.
The book also contains extensive advice on the handling of specimens and the allocation of organisms to strain or
functional group type.
Contents
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- 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
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