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Soil Biology

The Soil Biology Primer  

FURTHER READING

SOIL ECOLOGY
  • Coleman, D.C. and D.A. Crossley, Jr. 1996. Fundamentals of Soil Ecology. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego.
  • Collins, H.P., G.P. Robertson, and M.J. Klug (eds.)  1993. The Significance and Regulation of Soil Biodiversity. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
  • Cook, R.J. and K.J. Baker. 1983. The Nature and Practice of Biological Control of Plant Pathogens. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul Minnesota.
  • Killham, Ken. 1994. Soil Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Great Britain.
  • Richards, B.N. 1987. The Microbiology of Terrestrial Ecosystems. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
THE RHIZOSPHERE
  • Campbell, R. 1985. Plant Microbiology. Edward Arnold, London.
  • Lynch, J.M. 1990. The Rhizosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
MAJOR GROUPS OF SOIL ORGANISMS
  • Carroll, George C. and Donald T. Wicklow. 1992. The Fungal Community, 2nd Edition. Marcel Dekker and Sons, New York.
  • Darbyshire, J.F. (ed.)  1994. Soil Protozoa. CAB International, Wallingford.
  • Dindal, Daniel L. (ed.). 1990. Soil Biology Guide. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
  • Edwards, C.A. and P. J. Bohlen. 1996. Biology and Ecology of Earthworms, 3rd Edition. Chapman & Hall, London.
  • Gisebeis, Gerhard and Wilfried Wichard. 1987. Atlas on the Biology of Soil Arthropods. Springer-Verlag, New York.
  • Smith, S.E. and D.J. Read. 1997. Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. 2nd edition. Academic Press, San Diego.
  • Zuckerman, B.M., W.F. Mai, and R.A. Rohde. 1971. Plant Parasitic Nematodes. Academic Press, New York.
MEASUREMENT
  • Pankhurst, C.E., B.M. Doube, and V.V.S.R. Gupta (eds.)  1997. Biological Indicators of Soil Health. CAB International, Oxon UK.
  • Ritz, K., J. Dighton, and K.E. Giller (eds). 1994. Beyond the Biomass:  Compositional and Functional Analysis of Soil Microbial Communities. John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex UK.
  • Weaver, R.W. (chair of editorial committee). 1994. Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 2. Microbiological and Biochemical Properties. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.

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