Standard Methods For Assessment of Soil Biodiversity and Land Use Practice.
| Title | Standard Methods For Assessment of Soil Biodiversity and Land Use Practice. |
| Publication Type | Lecture Notes |
| Authors | Swift, M.; Bignell, D. |
| ContactAuthor | asb@cgiar.org |
| Secondary Title | ASB Lecture Note 6B |
| Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office |
| Place Published | Bogor, Indonesia |
| Year of Publication | 2001 |
| Pagination | 40 |
| Date Published | October 2001 |
| Publication Language | English |
| Abstract | A major feature of global change in the tropics is that of land use associated with agricultural intensification (Lavelle et al. 1997). In addition to plants, soil is the habitat of a diverse array of organisms: Archean, bacteria, fungi, protozoans, algae and invertebrate animals, the activities of which contribute to the maintenance and productivity of ecosystems by their influence on soil fertility (Hole 1981, Lavelle 1996, Brussaard et al. 1997). |
| Keywords | agricultural, Biodiversity, Decomposition, ecosystems, global change, productivity |
| URL | http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/LectureNotes/ASB-LN-6B-Swift-Bignell-2001-Methods-assessment-soil-biodiversity.pdf |
| Citation Key | 379 |
