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Life in the soil : a guide for naturalists and gardeners /
Leonardo da Vinci once mused that "we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot," an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- How to use this book
- Preface
- pt. 1. The marriage of the mineral world and the organic world
- A. Introduction
- B. How soil forms from rocks and weather
- C. Plant roots and their bacterial partners
- D. Plant roots and their fungal partners
- E. Where roots meet rocks and minerals
- F. Plant roots and their animal partners
- 1. Life in a dark and densely populated world
- 2. Soil fertility and the formation of humus
- 3. Importance of nitrogen
- 4. The contribution of animals to soil structure
- 5. Diggers and tillers of the soil
- G. How plants and animals affect the layers of a soil
- pt. 2. Members of the soil community
- A. Microbes
- 1. Eubacteria and archaebacteria
- 2. Actinomycetes
- 3. Algae
- 4. Fungi
- 5. Chytrids, hyphochytrids, oomycetes
- 6. Lichens
- 7. Slime molds
- 8. Protozoa
- Animal kingdom.
- B. Invertebrates
- animals without backbones
- a. Animals without backbones or jointed legs
- 1. Flatworms
- 2. Roundworms and potworms
- 3. Earthworms
- 4. Land leeches
- 5. Rotifers
- 6. Snails and slugs
- 7. Tardigrades
- 8. Onychophorans
- b. Arthropods other than insects
- 1. Mites and springtails
- 2. Proturans and diplurans
- 3. Myriapods
- 4. Spiders
- 5. Daddy longlegs
- 6. Pseudoscorpions
- 7. True scorpions, windscorpions, whipscorpions and schizomids
- 8. Microwhipscorpions
- 9. Ricinuleids
- 10. Woodlice
- 11. Crayfish
- c. Insects : the most abundant arthropods
- 1. Jumping bristletails and silverfish
- 2. Earwigs
- 3. Cockroaches
- 4. Camel crickets and mole crickets
- 5. Short-horned grasshoppers
- 6. Termites
- 7. Thrips
- 8. Big-eyed bugs and burrower bugs
- 9. Aphids, phylloxerans, and coccoids
- 10. Cicadas and rhipicerid beetles
- 11. Rove beetles and ground beetles.
- 12. Tiger beetles
- 13. Short-winged mold beetles
- 14. Featherwing beetles
- 15. Sap beetles
- 16. Antlike stone beetles
- 17. Minute fungus beetles
- 18. Ptilodactylid beetles
- 19. Glowworms, fireflies, and lightningbugs
- 20. Soldier beetles
- 21. Dung beetles
- 22. Carrion beetles, burying beetles, and hister beetles
- 23. Wireworms and click beetles
- 24. Beetles of rotten logs
- 25. Scarabs, weevils, and their grubs
- 26. Variegated mud-loving beetles
- 27. Fungus beetles
- 28. Scorpionflies
- 29. Antlions
- 30. Caterpillars and moths
- 31. March flies, crane flies, and soldier flies
- 32. Midges and biting midges
- 33. Moth flies
- 34. Snipe flies
- 35. Robber flies
- 36. Bee flies
- 37. Long-legged flies
- 38. Picture-winged flies
- 39. Root-maggot flies
- 40. Gall wasps
- 41. Parasitic wasps
- 42. Digger bees and velvet ants
- 43. Digger wasps
- 44. Ants.
- C. Vertebrates
- a. Vertebrates other than mammals
- 1. Salamanders
- 2. Toads
- 3. Caecilians
- 4. Lizards
- 5. Snakes
- 6. Turtles and tortoises
- 7. Birds
- b. Mammals
- 1. Woodchucks and skunks
- 2. Badgers
- 3. Prairie dogs
- 4. Ground squirrels and chipmunks
- 5. Moles
- 6. Shrews
- 7. Pocket gophers
- 8. Kangaroo rats
- pt. 3. Working in partnership with creatures of the soil
- 1. Preventing erosion
- 2. Avoiding excessive use of fertilizers
- 3. Effects of acid rain
- 4. Avoiding salt-encrusted soils
- 5. Maintaining soil structure
- 6. Discouraging invasion of soils by exotic species
- 7. Composting as an antidote to soil abuse
- Collecting and observing life of the soil
- Glossary
- Further reading
- Index.