Soil Biological Communities and Ecosystem Resilience

✍ Scribed by Martin Lukac, Paola Grenni, Mauro Gamboni (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores current knowledge and methods used to study soil organisms and to attribute their activity to wider ecosystem functions. Biodiversity not only responds to environmental change, but has also been shown to be one of the key drivers of ecosystem function and service delivery. Soil biodiversity in tree-dominated ecosystems is also governed by these principles, the structure of soil biological communities is clearly determined by environmental, as well as spatial, temporal and hierarchical factors. Global environmental change, together with land-use change and ecosystem management by humans, impacts the aboveground structure and composition of tree ecosystems. Due to existing knowledge of the close links between the above- and belowground parts of terrestrial ecosystems, we know that soil biodiversity is also impacted. However, very little is known about the nature of these impacts; effects on the overall level of biodiversity, the magnitude and diversity of functions soil biodiversity generates, but also on the present and future stability of tree ecosystems and soils. Even though much remains to be learned about the relationships between soil biodiversity and tree ecosystem functionality, it is clear that better effort needs to be made to describe and understand key processes which take place in soils and are driven by soil biota.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Role of Soil Biodiversity in Ecosystem Productivity and Resilience (Martin Lukac)....Pages 1-7
Ecosystem Services Provided By Soil Microorganisms (Maria Ludovica Saccá, Anna Barra Caracciolo, Martina Di Lenola, Paola Grenni)....Pages 9-24
Comparison of Two Molecular Methods to Assess Soil Microbial Diversity (Martina Di Lenola, Paola Grenni, Diogo N. Proença, Paula V. Morais, Anna Barra Caracciolo)....Pages 25-42
Towards Integrated Understanding of the Rhizosphere Phenomenon as Ecological Driver: Can Rhizoculture Improve Agricultural and Forestry Systems? (Luis G. García-Montero, Pablo Manzano, Deaa Alwanney, Inmaculada Valverde-Asenjo, Amaya Álvarez-Lafuente, Luis F. Benito-Matías et al.)....Pages 43-75
Impact of Agricultural Land Management on Soil Bacterial Community: A Case Study in the Mediterranean Area (Annamaria Bevivino, Claudia Dalmastri)....Pages 77-95
A Metagenomic Study on the Effect of Aboveground Plant Cover on Soil Bacterial Diversity (Mariantonietta Colagiero, Isabella Pentimone, Laura Cristina Rosso, Aurelio Ciancio)....Pages 97-106
What Lies Beneath: Root-Associated Bacteria to Improve the Growth and Health of Olive Trees (David Ruano-Rosa, Antonio Valverde-Corredor, Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás, Rafael Sesmero, Jesús Mercado-Blanco)....Pages 107-122
Norway Spruce Fine Roots and Fungal Hyphae Grow Deeper in Forest Soils After Extended Drought (Isabella Børja, Douglas L. Godbold, Jan Světlík, Nina E. Nagy, Roman Gebauer, Josef Urban et al.)....Pages 123-142
Ectomycorrhizal Diversity in Beech Dominated Stands in Central Europe (Christoph Rosinger, Hans Sandén, Douglas L. Godbold)....Pages 143-156
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities Pushed Over the Edge – Lessons from Extreme Ecosystems (Irena Maček)....Pages 157-172
An Intact Soil Core Bioassay for Cultivating Forest Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities (Peter G. Avis, Ina C. Meier, Richard P. Phillips)....Pages 173-190
Potential Role of Beneficial Soil Microorganisms in Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stress Factors (Raffaella Balestrini, Walter Chitarra, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Michelina Ruocco)....Pages 191-207
Microbial Communities, Functional Genes, and Nitrogen Cycling Processes as Affected by Tree Species (Relena R. Ribbons, Morag A. Mcdonald, Lars Vesterdal)....Pages 209-221
Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Responses to Forest Liming and Wood Ash Addition: Review and Meta-analysis (Rasmus Kjøller, Carla Cruz-Paredes, Karina E. Clemmensen)....Pages 223-252
β-Glucosidase Activity of Forest Soil as an Indicator of Soil Carbon Accumulation (Ewa Błońska, Jarosław Lasota)....Pages 253-263
Linking Ecosystem Variability and Carbon Sequestration: Estimation of Sequestered Carbon in Natural Forests and Perennial Crops (Jelena Milovanović, Uroš Radojević, Mirjana Šijačić-Nikolić)....Pages 265-276
Bioactive Peptaibols of Forest-Derived Trichoderma Isolates from Section Longibrachiatum (Tamás Marik, András Szekeres, Maria A. Andersson, Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen, Chetna Tyagi, Balázs Leitgeb et al.)....Pages 277-290
Plant-Assisted Bioremediation: An Ecological Approach for Recovering Multi-contaminated Areas (Valeria Ancona, Paola Grenni, Anna Barra Caracciolo, Claudia Campanale, Martina Di Lenola, Ida Rascio et al.)....Pages 291-303
Bioavailability of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil as Affected by Microorganisms and Plants (Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo, Rosa Posada-Baquero, José Luis Garcia, Manuel Cantos)....Pages 305-319
Soil Biodiversity and Tree Crops Resilience (Aurelio Ciancio, Mauro Gamboni)....Pages 321-343
Back Matter ....Pages 345-347

✦ Subjects

Agriculture