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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