The significance and regulation of soil biodiversity

Abstract

Comprises 25 individually-authored papers presented at a symposium held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, May 1993. All but six contributions (five of which are abstracted separately in Ecological Abstracts) have been published previously in Plant and Soil 170(1), 1995. The volume is divided into three sections: biodiversity and ecosystem processes (hierarchical approach to evaluating the significance of soil biodiversity to biogeochemical cycling, mutualism and biodiversity in soils, and the detritus food web and the diversity of soil fauna as indicators of disturbance regimes in agroecosystems); microbial population dynamics (13 papers); and soil faunal relationships (nine papers). -S.R.Harris