Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Steve Diver <steved@ipa.net>]

Good tips, Paul.

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Happy Holidays,
Steve Diver 


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The soil food web: structure and perspectives
Stefan Scheu 
European journal of soil biology  
2002, vol. 38, no1, pp. 11-20

This review outlines directions for future research in soil food web 
ecology.  Two lines of research are considered to be most important: 
the adoption of new methodologies to investigate food relationships 
and the strengthening of experimentation to investigate the interaction 
strength between food web components. For a better understanding 
of food relationships molecular methods, particularly fluorescence 
in situ hybridization, and stable isotope methodology, including the 
analysis of variations in the abundance of [1][3]C and [1][5]N, are 
thought to be most promising. Implications of results of the studies 
which employed these methodologies for the structure and 
function of soil food webs are highlighted.

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Unraveling the structure of soil food webs: stable isotope, fatty 
acid and compound-specific fatty acid analysis
Dominique Haubert
Darmstadt 2006
http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=980423163&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=980423163.pdf

vom Fachbereich Biologie der Technischen Universität
Darmstadt zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades 
eines Doctor rerum naturalium 
genehmigte Dissertation von


Figure 1.1:
Conceptual diagram of an interaction web, showing the 
main interactions between plants and biotic and
abiotic soil constituents. (Brussaard, 1998)


Moore et al. (1990), and Moore and de Ruiter (1991) 
proposed 5 trophic levels for a soil food web.

1. detritus and primary production (roots, algae)

2. primary decomposers and herbivores (bacteria, fungi, 
phytophagous nematodes)

3. consumers of bacteria and fungi (flagellates, mycophagous 
nematodes and mites, bacteriophagous nematodes and mites, 
Collembola)

4. intermediate predators (ciliates, predatory nematodes 
and nematophagous mites)

5. top predators (ciliates, amoebae, predatory mites)

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NRCS Soil Quality 
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/


Soil Quality Concepts
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/concepts/concepts.html


The Soil Biology Primer
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/concepts/soil_biology/biology.html

        
Soil Quality Publications
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/publications/publications.html

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NEON - Northeast Organic Network 
2005 Advanced Training in Organic Crop Production
http://www.neon.cornell.edu/training/


Training sessions
http://www.neon.cornell.edu/training/trainingsessions.html


Effects of Soil Management on Soil Organisms
Mary Barbercheck, Penn State University 
http://www.neon.cornell.edu/training/ppts/Barbercheck.ppt

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