Progress in understanding changes in soil biology in response to latitude, elevation and disturbance gradients has generally lagged behind studies of above-ground plants and animals owing to methodological constraints and high diversity and complexity of interactions in below-ground food webs. New methods have opened research opportunities in below-ground systems, leading to a rapid increase in...

Grasslands are coming under ever-increasing pressure worldwide. Many grasslands degraded due to overgrazing and inappropriate land management. This is impacting belowground biology soil bio...

Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 78:825–831 doi:10.2136/sssaj2014.02.0056 Received 6 Feb. 2014. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information stora...

A and how the response of management affects them are considered. The information collected in a soil survey helps in the development of land-use plans and evaluates and predicts the effects of land use on the environment. Soil surveys were first authorized in the United States in 1896. Although extensive writings on husbandry by L.J.M. Columella were published in the first century A.D., practi...

The sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva) vectors leishmaniasis in the neotropics. Although much is known about the biology of adult flies, little is known about interactions with its natural enemies. Here, we examined behavior of larvae of L4 L. longipalpis on a soil substrate when exposed to the fire ant Solenopsis invicata (Westwood). When ants were absent, most larvae tended to remai...

Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 14853 (e-mail: [email protected]); Department of Biology, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada V2Y 1Y1; Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Wm. Saunders Building #49, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6; and Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State Un...

EFFECTS OF SOIL SALINITY IN THE GROWTH OF AMBROSIA ARTEMISIIFOLIA BIOTYPES COLLECTED FROM ROADSIDE AND AGRICULTURAL FIELD Seok Hyun Eom a , Antonio DiTommaso b & Leslie A. Weston c a Department of Horticultural Biotechnology , Kyung Hee University , Yongin , Republic of Korea b Department of Crop and Soil Sciences , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York , USA c Plant Biology and Weed Science, ...

a Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel b Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, The Volcani Center, ARO, P.O. Box 6, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel c Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel d Area of Soil Science, Faculty of S...

Early researchers identified key concepts and developed tactics for multiple-option management of nematodes. Although the emphasis on integrated pest management over the past three decades has promoted strategies and tactics for nematode management, comprehensive studies on the related soil biology-ecology are relatively recent. Traditional management tactics include host resistance (where avai...