Fundamentals of Soil Ecology
- 1st Edition - March 25, 2003
- Authors: David C. Coleman, D. A. Crossley Jr.
- Language: English
Fundamentals of Soil Ecology is designed to be a bridge between ecologists and soil scientists of all sorts. There is increasing awareness that soil is the organizing center for… Read more
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Description
Description
Fundamentals of Soil Ecology is designed to be a bridge between ecologists and soil scientists of all sorts. There is increasing awareness that soil is the organizing center for all terrestrial ecosystems. This book examines why this is so, in terms of physics, chemistry, and biology of the soil ecosystem. Aspects of biodiversity and global change, and the important role soils play in global carbon balance, are also discussed.
Key features
Key features
Fundamentals of Soil Ecology is a holistic approach to soil biology and ecosystem function and treats soils as:
*living entities, not "black boxes"
*organizing centers for how ecosystems function over time
*filled with diverse biota, fauna, microbes, and roots
*living entities, not "black boxes"
*organizing centers for how ecosystems function over time
*filled with diverse biota, fauna, microbes, and roots
Readership
Readership
Soil scientists, agricultural scientists, crop scinetists, ecologists, microbiologists and invertebrate zoologists. Faculty, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates interested in these and related disciplines. Libraries at institutions with strong programs in these and related areas. Classroom adoptions for soil ecology courses.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Introduction: The Fitness of the Soil Environment; Primary Production Processes in Soil; Secondary Production: Activities of Heterotrophic Organisms--Microbes; Secondary Production: Activities of Heterotrophic Organisms--The Soil Fauna; Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling; Detritivory and Microbivory in Soils; Future Developments in Soil Ecology; References; Subject Index
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 9, 2003
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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David C. Coleman
David C. Coleman has been a lifelong soil ecologist with interests in soil biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling. He conducted research at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory of the University of Georgia (1965-1971), and the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University (1972-1985). While there, he also progressed through the ranks from Assistant to Associate and Full Professor of Zoology and Entomology at CSU. From 1985 he has been a Distinguished Research Professor of Ecology in the Institute of Ecology and later the Odum School of Ecology of the University of Georgia. He has been Professor Emeritus since 2005.
During the academic year of 1979-1980, Coleman was visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Soil Bureau in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. David received the Distinguished Service award from the Soil Ecology Society in 1999 and the Distinguished Ecosystem Scientist award from the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory in 2002. He served on several advisory panels on Ecology and Ecosystems with the National Science Foundation and on an advisory panel on Alternative Agriculture for the National Research Council. His research has concentrated on microbial-faunal interactions in detrital food webs in agroecosystems, e.g, Horseshoe Bend, near Athens, and in forested watersheds at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in western North Carolina, as part of the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) study. From 1996-2002 he was co-lead PI on the Coweeta LTER project. He was also a McMaster Visiting Research Fellow at CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia, January-April 2006.
David served as co-Chief Editor of Soil Biology and Biochemistry from 1998 to 2010 and serves as its Review Editor currently. He serves on editorial boards of several other soil biology journals. He has published over 300 refereed journal articles and books and is senior author of Fundamentals of Soil Ecology (second edition, 2004), and the author of Big Ecology: The Emergence of Ecosystem Science (2010).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USADC
D. A. Crossley Jr.
Dac Crossley is a Professor Emeritus of Ecology at the Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA. He served as Director the Graduate Program in Ecology, at the Institute of Ecology at UGA since its inception. He was Principal Investigator of the Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research site in North Carolina. He has served as editor and reviewer of numerous ecological and entomological journals. He currently serves as an associate curator at the Georgia Museum of Natural History where he curates the soil mite collection.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA