Vital soil [electronic resource] : function, value, and properties / edited by Peter Doelman, Herman J.P. Eijsackers.

Healthy soil, with active soil life, deters long-term soil degradation and ensures that geo-physical processes are undisturbed. Is the vitality of soil under threat due to human civilization? Or is it due to contamination, intensification, and deforestation? Vital Soil aims to look at the effects so...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ScienceDirect)
Other Authors: Doelman, Peter, Eijsackers, H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Developments in soil science ; v. 29.
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  • Contents include: soil functions; soil formation; vegetation and organic matter; soil biota and activities; soil microbes; soil invertebrates; soil fauna and above ground biota; system integration by food webs and fate of contaminants in soil.