About the Book
With growing concern about the protection of soil quality and biodiversity many countries have established regional and national programmes to monitor soil quality. This book reviews the theory and practice of a range of the various microbiological methods used within these programmes. The first section gives an overview of approaches to monitoring, evaluating and managing soil quality. The second section provides a practical handbook with detailed descriptions of the methods. The methods are described in chapters on soil microbial biomass and numbers, soil microbial activity, soil microbial diversity and community composition, and plant-microbe interactions and soil quality. Finally, a census is given of the main methods used in over 30 European microbiological laboratories.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Approaches to Defining, Monitoring, Evaluating and Managing Soil Quality 1: Introduction, A Benedetti and O Dilly 2: Defining Soil Quality, R G Burns, P Nannipieri, A Benedetti and D W Hopkins 3: Monitoring and Evaluating Soil Quality, J Bloem, A J Schouten, S J Sørensen, M Rutgers, A van der Werf and A M Breure 4: Managing Soil Quality, M Schloter, J C Munch and F Tittarelli 5: Conclusive Remarks, A Benedetti, P C Brookes and J M Lynch Part II: Selected Methods 6: Microbial Biomass and Numbers 7: Estimating soil microbial biomass, A Fließbach and F Widmer 8: Microbial biomass measurements by fumigation-extraction, P Brookes and R G Joergensen 9: Substrate-induced respiration, H Höper 10: Enumeration and Biovolume Determination of Microbial Cells, M Bölter, J Bloem, K Meiners and R Möller 11: Soil Microbial Activity 12: Estimating soil microbial activity , O Dilly 13: Soil respiration, M Pell, J Stenström and U Granhall 14: Soil nitrogen mineralization, S Canali and A Benedetti 15: Nitrification in soil, A Bollmann 16: Thymidine and leucine incorporation to assess bacterial growth rate, J Bloem and P R Bolhuis 17: N2O emissions and denitrification from soil, U Sehy, M Schloter, H Bothe and J C Munch 18: Enzyme activity profiles and soil quality, L J Shaw and R G Burns 19: Soil Microbial Diversity and Community Composition 20: Estimating soil microbial diversity and community composition, J D van Elsas and M Rutgers 21: Soil microbial community fingerprinting based on total community DNA or RNA, J D van Elsas, E M Top and K Smalla 22: Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analyses, A Palojärvi 23: Substrate utilisation in Biolog plates for analysis of CLPP, M Rutgers, A M Breure and H Insam 24: Plant-microbe Interactions and Soil Quality 25: Microbial ecology of the rhizosphere, P Lemanceau, P Offre, C Mougel, E Gamalero, Y Dessaux, Y Moënne-Loccoz and G Berta 26: Nodulating symbiotic bacteria and soil quality, A Hartmann, S Mazurier, D N Rodríguez-Navarro, F Temprano Vera, J-C Cleyet-Marel, Y Prin, A Galiana, M Fernández-López, N Toro and Y Moënne-Loccoz 27: Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhiza to soil quality and terrestrial ecotoxicology, S Gianinazzi, E Plumey-Jacquot, V Gianinazzi-Pearson and C Leyval 28: Concepts and methods to assess the phytosanitary quality of soils, C Alabouvette, J Raaijmakers, W de Boer, R Notz, G Défago, C Steinberg and P Lemanceau 29: Free-living plant-beneficial microorganisms and soil quality, Y Moënne-Loccoz, S L Woo, Y Okon, R Bally, M Lorito, P Lemanceau and A Hartman 30: Census of Microbiological Methods for Soil Quality, O Dilly
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