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Life in the soil: a guide for naturalists and gardeners
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University of Chicago Press
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
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.
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