Microbiological methods for assessing soil quality /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Soils > Quality.; Soil microbiology.; Soils > Analysis.; Soil Biology.; Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000); Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Genetics and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Techniques and Methodology.; Enzyme activity.; Microbial activities.; Microbial ecology.; Microbiological techniques.; Mycorrhizal fungi.; Mycorrhizas.; Nodulation.; Rhizosphere.; Soil enzymes.; Soil fertility.; Species diversity.; Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizas.; Electronic books.
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This book provides a selection of microbiological methods that are already applied in regional or national soil quality monitoring programmes. It is presented in two parts: (1) gives an overview of approaches to monitoring, evaluating and managing soil quality; and (2) provides the detailed methods...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Anna Benedetti and Oliver Dilly
• Defining Soil Quality / Richard G. Burns, Paolo Nannipieri, Anna Benedetti and David W. Hopkins
• Monitoring and Evaluating Soil Quality / Jaap Bloem, Anton J. Schouten, Søren J. Sørensen, Michiel Rutgers, Adri van der Werf and Anton M. Breure
• Managing Soil Quality / Michael Schloter, Jean Charles Munch and Fabio Tittarelli
• Concluding Remarks / Anna Benedetti, Philip C. Brookes and James M. Lynch
• Microbial Biomass and Numbers
• Estimating Soil Microbial Biomass / Andreas Flieβbach and Franco Widmer
• Microbial Biomass Measurements by Fumigation-Extraction / Philip C. Brookes and Rainer Georg Joergensen
• Substrate-induced Respiration / Heinrich Höper
• Enumeration and Biovolume Determination of Microbial Cells / Manfred Bölter, Jaap Bloem, Klaus Meiners and Rolf Möller
• Soil Microbial Activity
• Estimating Soil Microbial Activity / Oliver Dilly
• Soil Respiration / Mikael Pell, John Stenström and Ulf Granhall
• Soil Nitrogen Mineralization / Stefano Canali and Anna Benedetti
• Nitrification in Soil / Annette Bollmann
• Thymidine and Leucine Incorporation to Assess Bacterial Growth Rate / Jaap Bloem and Popko R. Bolhuis
• N2O Emissions and Denitrification from Soil / Ulrike Sehy, Michael Schloter, Hermann Bothe and Jean Charles Munch
• Enzyme Activity Profiles and Soil Quality / Liz J. Shaw and Richard G. Burns
• Soil Microbial Diversity and Community Composition
• Estimating Soil Microbial Diversity and Community Composition / Jan Dirk van Elsas and Michiel Rutgers
• Soil Microbial Community Fingerprinting Based on Total Community DNA or RNA / Jan Dirk van Elsas, Eva M. Top and Kornelia Smalla
• Phospholipid Fatty Acid (PLFA) Analyses / Ansa Palojärvi
• Substrate Utilization in BiologTM Plates for Analysis of CLPP / Michiel Rutgers, Anton M. Breure and Heribert Insam
• Plant-Microbe Interactions and Soil Quality
• Microbial Ecology of the Rhizosphere / Philippe Lemanceau, Pierre Offre, Christophe Mougel, Elisa Gamalero, Yves Dessaux, Yvan Moënne-Loccoz and Graziella Berta
• Nodulating Symbiotic Bacteria and Soil Quality / Alain Hartmann, Sylvie Mazurier, Dulce N. Rodríguez-Navarro, Francisco Temprano Vera, Jean-Claude Cleyet-Marel, Yves Prin, Antoine Galiana, Manuel Fernández-López, Nicolás Toro and Yvan Moënne-Loccoz
• Contribution of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza to Soil Quality and Terrestrial Ecotoxicology / Silvio Gianinazzi, Emmanuelle Plumey-Jacquot, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson and Corinne Leyval
• Concepts and Methods to Assess the Phytosanitary Quality of Soils / Claude Alabouvette, Jos Raaijmakers, Wietse de Boer, Régina Notz, Geneviève Défago, Christian Steinberg and Philippe Lemanceau
• Free-living Plant-beneficial Microorganisms and Soil Quality / Yvan Moënne-Loccoz, Sheridan L. Woo, Yaacov Okon, René Bally, Matteo Lorito, Philippe Lemanceau and Anton Hartmann
• Census of Microbiological Methods for Soil Quality / Oliver Dilly.