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Progress in Soil Zoology

Proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium on Soil Zoology Held in Prague September 17–22, 1973

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  • © 1975

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  1. Jan Vaněk
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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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Table of contents (67 papers)

  1. Modern Methods of Investigating Soil Organisms and their Influence upon Soil Properties

    1. Scope of the gelatin-embedding technique for studying soil arthropod fauna, with particular reference to Oribatei

      • Y. D. Pande
      Pages 547-558

    2. Specific haemoglobin content as an ecological characteristic in earthworms (Lumbricidae)

      • J. B. Byzova
      Pages 559-562

    3. Microrespirometry of oribatid mites (Acari: Cryptostigmata) using gas chromatography

      • M. J. Mitchell
      Pages 563-570

    4. Fonctions des lombriciens IV. Corrections et utilisations des distorsions causées par les méthodes de capture

      • M. B. Bouché
      Pages 571-582

    5. Fonctions des lombriciens V. Essais de codification des approximations successives

      • M. B. Bouché
      Pages 583-592

    6. Observations on the digestive enzymes of some litter-feeding animals

      • G. Marcuzzi, M. Turchetto Lafisca
      Pages 593-598

    7. The efficiency of collecting soil arthropods from the froth by flotation method at different intervals of counting

      • J. Singh
      Pages 599-602

    8. Soil biology and the doctoral syndrome

      • J. E. Satchell
      Pages 603-610

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 611-630
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Progress in Soil Zoology

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium on Soil Zoology Held in Prague September 17–22, 1973

  • Editors: Jan Vaněk

  • Series Title: Transactions of the Prague Conferences on Information Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1933-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1975

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-6193-025-9Due: 30 June 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1935-4Published: 21 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1933-0Published: 08 July 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 630

  • Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Soil Science & Conservation

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods

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