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Methods for the examination of organismal diversity in soils and sediments / edited by Geoffrey S. Hall ; project coordinators, Pierre Lasserre and David L. Hawksworth.
- Title
- Methods for the examination of organismal diversity in soils and sediments / edited by Geoffrey S. Hall ; project coordinators, Pierre Lasserre and David L. Hawksworth.
- Publication
- Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : CAB International in association with United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and the International Union of Biological Sciences, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | S593 .M44525 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Our lack of knowledge of the organisms dwelling in soils and sediments and of their roles in ecological processes, constitutes a major barrier to understanding how ecosystems operate. This topic has both academic and applied relevance. Thus, in order to forecast the implications of perturbations in a site on both the species present and ecosystem functioning, whether direct (e.g. pollution or physical disturbance) or indirect (e.g. climate change), methods need to be available that can be used to ascertain what organisms are present in a sample. This book provides an authoritative manual of the techniques now used for different organisms. It has been developed as part of UNESCO's contribution to the DIVERSITAS programme and implemented through the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). Soil organisms and those inhabiting freshwater and marine sediments, from microbes (bacteria, algae, fungi, etc.) to macrofauna (earthworms, nematodes, molluscs, etc.) are all treated. The chapters are arranged by organismal groups and have been written by recognized specialists from the USA and Europe. The book makes a major contribution to the literature and will be indispensable for soil and aquatic biologists and ecologists, as well as those with a broader interest in biodiversity and environmental sciences.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Heterotrophic bacteria : the cultivation approach / James T. Staley -- Chemolithotrophic bacteria / Sheridan K. Haack -- Actinomycetes / Elizabeth M.H. Wellington and Ian K. Toth -- Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) / Brian A. Whitton -- Analysis of non-culturable bacteria / James M. Tiedje and Jizhong Zhou -- Algae / John D. Dodge and L. Elliot Shubert -- Protozoa / John F. Darbyshire, O. Roger Anderson and Andrew Rogerson -- Dictyostelids and myxomycetes / Steven L. Stephenson and James C. Cavender -- Yeasts / Jack W. Fell and Cletus P. Kurtzman -- Zoosporic fungi / Geoffrey S. Hall --Filamentous fungi / Paul F. Cannon -- Arbuscular mycorrhizas / Justin P. Clapp, Alastair H. Fitter and James W. Merryweather -- Micro- and macro-arthropods / John E. Bater -- Mites / Don A. Griffiths -- Meiofauna in marine and freshwater sediments / Magda Vincx -- Rotifers / Parke A. Rublee -- Turbellarians / Ernest R. Schockaert -- Nematodes in soils / David J. Hunt and Paul De Ley -- Land and freshwater molluscs and crustaceans / Mary B. Seddon and P. Graham Oliver -- Earthworms / Sam W. James -- Marine macrofauna : polychaetes, molluscs and crustaceans / Andrew S.Y. Mackie and P. Graham Oliver -- Burrowing mega- and macrofauna from marine sediments : the minor groups / J. Douglas McKenzie.
- ISBN
- 0851991491
- LCCN
- ^^^97121166^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library