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" Biological Processes and Soil Fertility "
edited by J. Tinsley, J.F. Darbyshire.
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BL
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731257
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edited by J. Tinsley, J.F. Darbyshire.
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Biological Processes and Soil Fertility\ edited by J. Tinsley, J.F. Darbyshire.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1984
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Developments in plant and soil sciences, 11.
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(436 pages)
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9400961014
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: 9400961030
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: 9789400961036
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Section 1: Cycling of nitrogen in soil-plant systems --;1.1 Cycling of nitrogen in modern agricultural systems --;1.2 Nitrogen relationships in intensively managed temperate grasslands --;1.3 Components of the nitrogen cycle measured for cropped and grassland soil-plant systems --;1.4 The uptake of soil and fertilizer-nitrogen by barley growing under Scottish climatic conditions --;1.5 Leaching losses of nitrogen from a clay soil under grass and cereal crops in Finland --;1.6 Tillage effects on nitrogen uptake by maize from fine textured soils in the northwestern Corn Belt, USA --;Section 2: Microbial and animal effects on soil fertility --;2.1 The role of microorganisms in mediating and facilitating the uptake of plant nutrients from soil --;2.2 Earthworms and soil fertility --;2.3 Effect of lime, phosphorus and mycorrhizal fungi on growth, nodulation and nitrogen fixation by white clover (Trifolium repens) grown in UK hill soils --;2.4 Effect of liming on spore germination, germ tube growth and root colonization by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi --;Section 3: Measurements of microbial populations and biomass: their roles in soil processes --;3.1 Biological and biochemical analysis of soils --;3.2 Extractable N and P in relation to microbial biomass in UK acid organic soils --;3.3 Mineralization dynamics in fallow dryland wheat plots, Colorado --;3.4 Dynamics of soil microbial biomass N under zero and shallow tillage for spring wheat, using 15N urea --;3.5 Mineralization of C and N from microbial biomass in paddy soil --;3.6 Influence of plant roots on C and P metabolism in soil --;3.7 Response of soil microflora to moorland reclamation for improved agriculture --;Section 4: Anaerobic processes in soils and gaseous losses of nitrogen --;4.1 Anaerobic processes in soil --;4.2 Denitrification in field soils --;4.3 Total denitrification and the ratio between N2O, and N2 during the growth of spring barley --;4.4 Nitrite: a key compound in N loss processes under acid conditions? --;Section 5: Dynamics and models of organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus transformations in cultivated soils --;5.1 The biological transformation of P in soil --;5.2 Modelling C and N turnover through the microbial biomass in soil --;5.3 Dynamics of organic matter in soils --;5.4 Concepts of soil organic matter transformations in relation to organo-mineral particle size fractions --;5.5 A simple method for calculating decomposition and accumulation of 'young' soil organic matter --;Section 6: Interaction effects of organisms, organic matter and management on soil structure --;6.1 Interactions between biological processes, cultivation and soil structure --;6.2 Soil organic matter and structural stability: mechanisms and implications for management --;6.3 Influence of soil type, crop and air drying on residual carbohydrate content and aggregate stability after treatment with periodate and tetraborate --;6.4 Changes in soil structure and biological activity on some meadow hay plots at Cockle Park, Northumberland --;6.5 The effects on topsoil of long-term storage in stockpiles --;Section 7: Effects of noxious materials on biological processes in soils --;7.1. Effects of pesticides and heavy metals on biological processes in soil --;7.2 Microbial populations in trifluralin-treated soil --;7.3 Chemical disinfestation and metabolic integrity of soil --;Index of key words.
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Meeting of Commissions III and IV of the International Society of Soil Science jointly with the British Society of Soil Science
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Environmental sciences.
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Soil conservation.
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QH84.8E358 1984
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J F Darbyshire
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J Tinsley
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Meeting of Commissions III and IV of the International Society of Soil Science jointly with the British Society of Soil Science
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