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Autore: | Nardi James B. <1948-> |
Titolo: | Life in the soil [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for naturalists and gardeners / / James B. Nardi |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina: | 578.75/7 |
Soggetto topico: | Soil biology |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-277) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- How to Use This Book -- Preface -- PART ONE. Marriage of the Mineral World and the Organic World -- PART TWO. Members of the Soil Community -- PART THREE. Working in Partnership with Creatures of the Soil -- Collecting and Observing Life of the Soil -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Leonardo da Vinci once mused that "we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot," an observation that is as apt today as it was five hundred years ago. The biological world under our toes is often unexplored and unappreciated, yet it teems with life. In one square meter of earth, there lives trillions of bacteria, millions of nematodes, hundreds of thousands of mites, thousands of insects and worms, and hundreds of snails and slugs. But because of their location and size, many of these creatures are as unfamiliar and bizarre to us as anything f |
Titolo autorizzato: | Life in the soil |
ISBN: | 1-282-42240-5 |
9786612422409 | |
0-226-56853-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455099503321 |
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