Microbiological methods for assessing soil quality / edited by Jaap Bloem, David W. Hopkins, and Anna Benedetti.

Bibliogr. en fin de chap. Index.

Approaches to Defining, Monitoring, Evaluating and Managing Soil Quality -- Introduction / Anna Benedetti and Oliver Dilly -- Defining Soil Quality / R.G. Burns, P. Nannipieri, A. Benedetti and D.W. Hopkins -- Monitoring and Evaluating Soil Quality / Jaap Bloem, Anton J. Schouten, Søren J. Sørensen, Michiel Rutgers, Adri van der Werf and Anton M. Breure -- Managing Soil Quality / Michael Schloter, Jean Charles Munch and Fabio Tittarelli -- Conclusive Remarks / Anna Benedetti, Philip C. Brookes and James M. Lynch -- Part II. Selected Methods -- Microbial Biomass and Numbers: Estimating soil microbial biomass / Andreas Flie bach and Franco Widmer -- Microbial biomass measurements by fumigation-extraction / Phil Brookes and Rainer Georg Joergensen -- Substrate-induced respiration / Heinrich Höper -- Enumeration and Biovolume Determination of Microbial Cells / Manfred Bölter, Jaap Bloem, Klaus Meiners, and Rolf Möller -- Soil Microbial Activity -- Estimating soil microbial activity / Oliver Dilly -- Soil respiration / Mikael Pell, John Stenström and Ulf Granhall -- Soil nitrogen mineralization / Stefano Canali and Anna Benedetti -- Nitrification in soil / Annette Bollmann -- Thymidine and leucine incorporation to assess bacterial growth rate / Jaap Bloem and Popko R. Bolhuis -- N2O emissions and denitrification from soil / U. Sehy, M. Schloter, H. Bothe and J.C. Munch -- Enzyme activity profiles and soil quality / Liz J. Shaw and Richard G. Burns -- Soil Microbial Diversity and Community Composition / Estimating soil microbial diversity and community composition / Jan Dirk van Elsas and Michiel Rutgers -- Soil microbial community fingerprinting based on total community DNA or RNA / Jan Dirk van Elsas, Eva M. Top and Kornelia Smalla -- Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analyses / Ansa Palojärvi -- Substrate utilisation in Biolog plates for analysis of CLPP / Michiel Rutgers, Anton M. Breure and Heribert Insam -- Plant-microbe Interactions and Soil Quality: Microbial ecology of the rhizosphere / Philippe Lemanceau, Pierre Offre, Christophe Mougel, Elisa Gamalero, Yves Dessaux, Yvan Moënne-Loccoz and Graziella Berta -- Nodulating symbiotic bacteria and soil quality / Alain Hartmann, Sylvie Mazurier, Dulce N. Rodríguez-Navarro, Francisco Temprano Vera, Jean-Claude Cleyet-Marel, Yves Prin, Antoine Galiana, Manuel Fern ndez- López, Nicol s Toro and Yvan Moënne-Loccoz -- Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhiza to soil quality and terrestrial ecotoxicology / Silvio Gianinazzi, Emmanuelle Plumey-Jacquot, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson and Corinne Leyval -- Concepts and methods to assess the phytosanitary quality of soils / Claude Alabouvette, Jos Raaijmakers, Wietse de Boer, Régina Notz, Geneviève Défago, Christian Steinberg and Philippe Lemanceau -- Free-living plant-beneficial microorganisms and soil quality / Yvan Moënne-Loccoz, Sheridan L. Woo, Yaacov Okon, René Bally, Matteo Lorito, Philippe Lemanceau and Anton Hartmann -- Census of Microbiological Methods for Soil Quality / Oliver Dilly.