Soil Microbial Associationscontrol of structures and functions

✍ Scribed by VLASTIMIL VAN and FRANTI KUNC (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Series: Developments in Agricultural and Managed Forest Ecology 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the first publication of its kind to provide a fully comprehensive and detailed approach to the survey of microbial associations in soil: their structure and function in relation to soil fertility and environment protection. The problems covered by this title are presented on various levels of the ecological system; from subcellular phenomena occurring in the microbial cell (genetic and enzyme regulation), to processes taking place in the flow of mass and energy in the agroecosystem.

The aim of this monograph is to contribute to the understanding of the laws of formation and function of microbial associations in natural and agricultural soils, and to build a scientific basis for the control of soil biological processes. Using a contemporary approach to some fields of soil microbiology, the book highlights the possibility of utilizing certain microorganisms and microbial processes to increase soil fertility and protect the environment. These critically evaluated and selected results were obtained at the Institute of Microbiology and the Institute of Experimental Phytotechnics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Other Titles in this Series
Page ii

Front Matter
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

1 - Introduction
Pages 9-14
V. VANČURA

Introduction to Nutrition and energy sources of microbial populations in ecosystems
Pages 17-18
B. ÚLEHLOVÁ, F. KUNC, V. VANČURA

2.1 - Soil organic matter and humic substances
Pages 19-28
F. KUNC

2.2 - Residues of organisms
Pages 29-56
B. ÚLEHLOVÁ

2.3 - Plant metabolites in soil
Pages 57-144
V. VANČURA

2.4 - Compounds appearing in the biosphere through human activity
Pages 145-156
F. KUNC

Introduction to Structure of microbial soil associations and some mechanisms of their autoregulation
Pages 159-190
DENIS I. NIKITIN, FRANTIàEK KUNC

Introduction to Microorganisms, their mutual relations and functions in the rhizosphere
Pages 193-280

Introduction to Mechanisms of adaptation and selection of microorganisms in the soil
Pages 283-298
FRANTIàEK KUNC, JIŘÍ MACURA

Introduction to Mutual relations among microbial processes in soil
Pages 301-334
FRANTIàEK KUNC

Introduction to Cycling of mineral elements
Pages 337-338
BLANKA ÚLEHLOVÁ

7.2 - Microorganisms and the carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems
Pages 339-405
MARTA TESAŘOVÁ

7.3 - The nitrogen cycle
Pages 406-469
BLANKA ÚLEHLOVÁ

7.4 - Cycling of other mineral elements
Pages 470-478
BLANKA ÚLEHLOVÅ

7.5 - Energy flow in grasslands
Pages 479-488
BLANKA ÚLEHLOVÁ

Index of organisms
Pages 489-493

Subject index
Pages 494-498