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Full Description
Fundamentals of Soil Ecology is designed to be a bridge between ecologists and soil scientists of all sorts. There is increasing awareness that soil is the organizing center for all terrestrial ecosystems. This book examines why this is so, in terms of physics, chemistry, and biology of the soil ecosystem. Aspects of biodiversity and global change, and the important role soils play in global carbon balance, are also discussed.
Contents
The fitness of the soil environment; primary production processs in soil; secondary production - activities of heterotrophic organisms - microbes; secondary production - activities of heterotrophic organisms - the soil fauna; decomposition and nutrient cycling; detritivory and microbivory in soils; future developments in soil ecology.
