Interactions between Soil Particles and Microorganisms
Subtitle: Impact on the Terrestrial Ecosystem (Series on Analytical and Physical Chemistry of Environmental Systems)
Contributors: Pan Ming Huang (Editor); J.-M. Bollag (Editor); Nicola Senesi (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: April 10, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780471607908
First sentence: Understanding how soil characteristics control the activity of microorganisms in soil is essential to predict the occurrence and rate of microbially mediated functions that are of agronomic and environmental importance, such as nitrogen mineralization, denitrification, biological nitrogen fixation, turnover of C and N, stability of soil structure, biodegradation of organic pollutants, soil-borne pathogenicity, etc.