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Fauna in soil ecosystems: recycling processes, nutrient by Gero Benckiser

By Gero Benckiser

Deals an built-in presentation of the microbial, agronomic and recycling features of soil faunal potentials, emphasizing agricultural ecosystems and furnishing tools for modelling nutrients webs. The textual content covers morphology, replica, abundances, simple specifications, festival, predation, parasitism, nutrient biking and phytopathological interactions, soil physics and agricultural administration, plus tips on how to quantify soil faunal teams.

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Page 25 and promote good tilth, good moisture retention in droughty areas, and, paradoxically, often good drainage in wet areas. , 1991). The N- as well as all other nutrient cycles in soils are highly dependent on C-transformation and biomass (Figure 5) (Boyle and Paul, 1989a; Isermann, 1993; Benckiser, 1994; Bohlen and Edwards, 1995). With recommended sewage sludge rates of 5 tons per 3 years (German Sewage Sludge Regulations of 1992) more than 60 kg N ha-1 is annually applied to soils (Table 1) (Boyle and Paul, 1989a).

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Animal wastes are distinguished as raw, fermented, fluid, or solid slurries with gaseous losses of about 10% during storage. German cattle produce ca. 2 m3 ha-1 farmland. 2 m3 ha-1 (hens) (Vetter and Steffens, 1986). B. Macronutrients The amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus returned to soils by crop residues are summarized in Table 1. Depending on the crop, the nutrient inputs vary considerably. Similarly, the mean nutrient contents of German sewage sludges and biocomposts as percentage of dry matter, shown in Tables 2 and 3, exhibit high annual and regional variability (Unken, 1987; Poletschny, 1994a).

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