Soil biodiversity in Amazonian and other Brazilian ecosystems /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Soil invertebrates > Ecology > Brazil.; Soil microbiology > Brazil.; Soil biodiversity > Brazil.; Soil Biology.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Grasslands and Rangelands.; Biological Resources (Animal); Biological Resources (Plant); Animal Ecology.; Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000); Formicidae.; Insects.; Isoptera.; Nematoda.; Arthropod communities.; Biodiversity.; Endomycorrhizas.; Forest soils.; Forests.; Grasslands.; Insect communities.; Land use.; Mycorrhizal fungi.; Mycorrhizas.; Nature conservation.; Nitrogen fixing bacteria.; Reviews.; Savanna soils.; Savannas.; Soil bacteria.; Soil fungi.; Soil types.; Species diversity.; Species richness.; Sustainability.; Tropical rain forests.; Tropical soils.; Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizas.; Electronic books.
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This book contains eleven chapters focusing on the soil biodiversity in one of the key biodiversity hotspots of the world, i.e., the Amazon and nearby regions of Brazil. It covers both the tropical savannah and the rain forests. Also addressed are the patterns of diversity and communities of various...

Table of Contents:

• Soil Organisms in Tropical Ecosystems : a Key Role for Brazil in the Global Quest for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity / F.M.S. Moreira, J.O. Siqueira and L. Brussard
• Soil and Land Use in the Brazilian Amazon / M.L. Mendonça-Santos, H.G. dos Santos, M.R. Coelho, A.C.C. Bernardi, P.L.O.A. Machado, C.V. Manzatto and E.C.C. Fidalgo
• Soil Macrofauna Communities in Brazilian Amazonia / E. Barros, J. Mathieu, S. Tapia-Coral, A.R.L. Nascimento and P. Lavelle
• Earthworm Ecology and Diversity in Brazil / S.W. James and G.G. Brown
• Termite Diversity in Brazil (Insecta : Isoptera) / R. Constantino and A.N.S. Acioli
• Patterns of Diversity and Responses to Forest Disturbance by Ground-dwelling Ants in Amazonia / H.L. Vasconcelos
• Soil Mesofauna in Central Amazon / E. Franklin and J.W. de Morais
• Nematode Communities in Soils under Different Land Use Systems in Brazilian Amazon and Savannah Vegetation / S.P. Huang and J.E. Cares
• Diversity of Microfungi in Tropical Soils / L.H. Pfenning and L.M. de Abreu
• Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Brazilian Ecosystems / S.L. Stürmer and J.O. Siqueira
• Nitrogen-fixing Leguminosae-nodulating Bacteria / F.M.S. Moreira.