Biological Indicators of Soil Health
Readership
Soil scientists and consultants, those involved with soil health monitoring and maintenance and soil remediation. Also of interest to agronomists, ecologists and environmentalists.
Main Description
Maintaining soil health is fundamental to successful crop production and ecosystem sustainability. To enable effective management soil health must first be measured and then monitored and so the authors review and evaluate how soil organisms can be used to fulfil this role.
This book is essential for all soil scientists and consultants. It is of particular relevance to those involved in soil health monitoring and maintenance as well as those undertaking soil remediation. It is also important reading for agronomists, ecologists and environmentalists. This book is a comprehensive and effective resource for all those working to sustain healthy soils.
Main Contents
• Defining and Assessing Soil Health and Sustainable Productivity J W Doran, Soil/Water Conservation Research Unit, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA and M Safley, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, USA
• Soil Health: its Relationship to Ecosystem Health D J Rapport, Tri Council Eco-Research Chair in Ecosystem Health, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, J McCullum, West Kitikmeot / Slave Study Society, Northwest Territories, Canada and M H Miller, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• Rationale for Developing Bioindicators of Soil Health E T Elliott, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA
• Bioindicators: Perspectives and Potential Value for Landusers, Researchers and Policy Makers J M Lynch, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, UK and L F Elliott, National Forage Seed Production Research Centre, Oregon State University, USA
• Soil Microbial Biomass, Activity and Nutrient Cycling as Indicators of Soil Health G P Sparling, Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Soil Enzyme Activities as Integrative Indicators of Soil Health R P Dick, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, USA
• Soil Microflora as Bioindicators of Soil Health M M Roper, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Wembley, Australia and K M Ophel-Keller, Cooperative Research Centre for Soil and Land Management, Glen Osmond, Australia
• Potential Use of Plant Root Pathogens as Bioindicators of Soil Health D Hornby and G L Bateman, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK
• Soil Microfauna as Bioindicators of Soil Health V V S R Gupta and G W Yeates, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
• Community Structure of Soil Arthropods as a Bioindicator of Soil Health N M van Straalen, Faculty of Biology, Universitiet Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Can the Abundance or Activity of Soil Macrofauna be used to Indicate the Biological Health of Soils? B M Doube and O Schmidt, University College, Dublin, Ireland
• Biodiversity of Soil Organisms as an Indicator of Soil Health C E Pankhurst
• Biomonitoring of Soil Health by Plants T Pandolfini, P Gremigni, and R Gabbrielli, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Frienze, Italy
• Bioindicators to Detect Contamination of Soils with Special Reference to Heavy Metals G N Mhatre, Bal Govindas Marg, Dadar, Bombay, India and C E Pankhurst
• Chemical and Molecular Approaches for Rapid Assessment of the Biological Status of Soils D C White, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA and S J Macnaughton, Microbial Insights, Knoxville, USA
• Use of Genetically Modified Biosensors for Soil Ecotoxicity Testing G I Paton, E A S Rattray, C D Campbell, M S Cresser, L A Glover, and K Killham, University of Aberdeen, UK and J C L Meeussen, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, UK
• Biological Indicators of Soil Health: Synthesis C E Pankhurst, B M Doube and V V S R Gupta
