Soil Biota, Nutrient Cycling, and Farming Systems

by Paoletti, M. G.; Foissner, W.; Coleman, D.

• ISBN13: 9780873719193
• ISBN10: 0873719190
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc

Table of Contents

Microbial and Faunal Interactions as They Affect Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in Subtropical Agroecosystems	p. 1
Humic Constituents of Forest Soils As Plant Growth Regulating Substances	p. 15
Organic Matter Management and Calcic Amendments in Order to Maintain or Improve Soil Fertility	p. 27
Survival Rates of Plant Pathogens During Composting of Biogenic Wastes in Commercial Composting Plants Under Different Decomposition Conditions	p. 41
Pesticides in Mud, Water, and Bat Guano in Some Veneto Caves	p. 53
Phytotoxicity of Herbicides with Residual Activity on Rotational Crops	p. 61
The Effect of Orchard Practice on Earthworms with Special Reference to Soil Compaction and Herbicide Use	p. 71
Is the Bioinsecticide Boverol (Beauveria bassiana) Safe for Earthworms?	p. 81
Factors Influencing Diversity of Soil Collembola in a Tropical Mountain Forest (Doi Inthanon, Northern Thailand)	p. 91
First Data on the Soil Arthropod Community in an Olive Grove in Central Italy	p. 113
Biological Indicators of Agricultural Influence on Poplar Groves, Vineyards, and Sugar Beets	p. 123
Assessment of the Agricultural Food Chain: Toward a Reduced Input of Chemical Fertilizers	p. 133
Nutrient Cycles in a Sugarcane Agroecosystem	p. 147
The Structure and Function of the High Bed-Low Ditch System in the Pearl River of Southern China	p. 157
Assisted Recovery of Degraded Tropical Lands: Plantation Forests and Ecosystem Stability	p. 169
Research on Woody Plants with Low Energetic Inputs: First Results for the Land Suitability System on Ash Tree Manna Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl and spp. Oxycarpa	p. 183
Wooded Pastures in Western Norway: History, Ecology, Dynamics, and Management	p. 193
Innovations and Agricultural Development: A Study of Fallow Productivity Resulting from Cultural Innovations	p. 207
Subterranean Clover: Nitrogen Contribution	p. 215
Winter Cover Cropping in Vegetable Production Systems in California	p. 227
Hairy Rose Beetle, Tropinota squalida Scop.: A New Component of the Orchard Agroecosystem in the New Reclaimed Areas of Egypt	p. 241
Maize Crop Intensification and Borer Attacks in The Ivory Coast: Insect Populations	p. 253
Maize Crop Intensification and Borer Attacks in The Ivory Coast: Yields	p. 267
Weed Reduction by Burning Straw and Stubble in the Field: Positive Responses and Potential Hazards	p. 279
Gladiolus italicus Miller: A Wild Species of Interest as a Flower Crop	p. 287
Phytotoxic Thiophenes in Coreopsis grandiflora Plants Grown in Italy	p. 293
Index	p. 305
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