Progress in Soil Zoology

1. Front Matter

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2. Die Geschichte der Bodenzoologie und ihre Einbeziehung in die bodenkundliche Forschung

   1. Die Geschichte der Bodenzoologie und ihre Einbeziehung in die bodenkundliche Forschung

      • H. Franz

      Pages 13-23

3. Wandel der Bodenfauna unter dem Einfluss menschlicher Aktivitäten

   1. Wandel der Bodenfauna unter dem Einfluss menschlicher Aktivitäten

      • H. Franz

      Pages 25-29

4. General Trends of Changes in Soil Animal Population of Arable Land

   1. General Trends of Changes in Soil Animal Population of Arable Land

      • M. S. Ghilarov

      Pages 31-39

5. Stability and Diversity of Communities of Soil Organisms

   1. On the delimitation of soil microarthropod coenoses in time and space

      • W. Dunger

      Pages 43-49

   2. The enigma of soil animal species diversity

      • J. M. Anderson

      Pages 51-58

   3. Ecological characteristics of xerothermic rendzinas

      • Jarmila Kubíková, Josef Rusek

      Pages 59-75

   4. Phytogenic microstructure of Collembola associations in steppes and forests of Siberia

      • S. K. Stebayeva

      Pages 77-84

   5. Distribution of dropping fabrics in central European humus forms

      • U. Babel

      Pages 85-94

   6. Energy flow through a mountainous pasture ecosystem

      • A. Kajak

      Pages 95-102

   7. Comparaison des communautés d’Oribates de litières de chênaies

      • G. Wauthy, Ph. Lebrun

      Pages 103-111

   8. The role of soil fauna of arid shrubland in South Australia

      • P. Greenslade

      Pages 113-119

   9. Testacida in two types of soil in Leningrad region

      • G. A. Korganova, J. G. Geltzer

      Pages 121-124

   10. Ecologie des Thecamoebiens de quelques humus bruts

       • M. M. Coûteaux

       Pages 125-132

   11. Quantitative distribution and respiratory metabolisms with suggestion on production of nematodes on mountain pastures

       • L. Wasilewska

       Pages 133-140

   12. Die Verbreitung von Regenwürmern in verschiedenen Waldtypen der Mischwaldzone des europäischen Teiles der UdSSR

       • T. S. Perel

       Pages 141-149

   13. Die Bodenfauna der Waldsteppen-Eichenwälder

       • I. V. Kudrjasheva

       Pages 151-155

   14. The weight structure and oxygen consumption of oribatid communities

       • P. Berthet

       Pages 157-162

   15. Distribution patterns of lithobiomorpha on the territory of the USSR

       • N. T. Zaleskaja

       Pages 163-166

   16. Dispersion patterns of diplopods and their activity in the litter decomposition in the Carpathian foothills

       • B. R. Striganova

       Pages 167-173

Ladies a n d g e n t 1 e m e n , I have the pleasure to welcome you here in Prague in the name of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and to open the Fifth Inter­ national Colloquium on Soil Zoology. We are very glad that Czecho­ slovakia was chosen for this important meeting. It is clear to all of us that the soil plays and will play a de­ cisive part in providing food for the explosive increase of human pop­ ulation. For this reason we watch with great anxiety the negative influence of human activities on the environment accompanied also by the other destructive intervention into the soil ecosystem, its devas­ tation by inefficient management, application of herbicides and pesti­ cides pollution by the waste products of industry and human settlements. The basis for solving these accumulating and now sometimes latent prob­ lems is among others a good knowledge of the role of soil organisms in the cycles of materials and in the energy flow. Soil zoology as a part of soil biology is still at the beginning of this trend The lack of in­ formation about life in soil is obvious when compared with the results of a related biological science dealing with the water ecosystem.

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