Soil Ecology

Ken Killham

Cambridge University Press, Mar 3, 1994 - Nature - 242 pages

Soil Ecology is designed to meet the increasing challenge faced by today's environmental scientists, ecologists, agriculturalists, and biotechnologists for an integrated approach to soil ecology. It emphasizes the interrelations among plants, animals, and microbes, by first establishing the fundamental physical and chemical properties of the soil habitat and then functionally characterizing the major components of the soil biota and some of their most important interactions. The fundamental principles underpinning soil ecology are established and this then enables an integrated approach to explore and understand the processes of soil nutrient (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) cycling and the ecology of extreme soil conditions such as soil-water stress. Two of the most topical aspects of applied soil ecology are then selected. First, the ecology of soil pollution is examined, focusing on acid deposition and radionuclide pollution. Second, manipulation of soil ecology through biotechnology is discussed, illustrating the use of pesticides and microbial inocula in soils and pointing toward the future by considering the impact of genetically modified inocula on soil ecology.

Contents

• III: 1
• IV: 2
• V: 3
• VI: 6
• VII: 7
• VIII: 10
• IX: 12
• X: 16
• XII: 19
• XIII: 20
• XIV: 24
• XV: 28
• XVI: 31
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• XVIII: 33
• XIX: 34
• XX: 40
• XXI: 41
• XXII: 46
• XXIII: 47
• XXIV: 52
• XXV: 57
• XXVII: 58
• XXVIII: 59
• XXIX: 60
• XXXI: 61
• XXXII: 62
• XXXV: 66
• XXXVI: 70
• XXXVIII: 71
• XXXIX: 75
• XL: 76
• XLI: 77
• XLII: 78
• XLIII: 79
• XLV: 80
• XLVI: 86
• XLVII: 87
• XLVIII: 89
• LII: 90
• LIII: 92
• LIV: 93
• LV: 95
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• LVII: 102
• LVIII: 103
• LIX: 105
• LX: 106
• LXI: 108
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• LXXIX: 158
• LXXX: 159
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• LXXXVII: 170
• LXXXVIII: 172
• LXXXIX: 173
• XC: 174
• XCII: 175
• XCIII: 177
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• XCVI: 180
• XCVII: 181
• XCIX: 182
• CIII: 183
• CIV: 184
• CV: 185
• CVI: 186
• CVII: 196
• CVIII: 198
• CIX: 200
• CX: 201
• CXI: 202
• CXII: 203
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• CXV: 205
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• CXXI: 211
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• CXXIII: 222
• CXXIV: 231

Popular passages

Page 212 - Hook, DD & Crawford, RMM (eds) 1978. Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Soil Ecology; Soil Ecology, Ken Killham; Springer Nature Book Archives Millennium
• Author: Ken Killham
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994
• ISBN: 0521435218, 9780521435215
• Length: 242 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Ecology; Science / Earth Sciences / General; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Life Sciences / Biology; Science / Life Sciences / Ecology; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Agronomy / Soil Science