Soil Biological Communities and Ecosystem Resilience (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1 Introduction: the role of soil biodiversity in ecosystem productivity and resilience - Martin Lukac 2 Ecosystem services provided by soil microorganisms - Maria Ludovica Sacca, Anna Barra Caracciolo, Martina Di Lenola and Paola Grenni 3 Comparison of two molecular methods to assess soil microbial diversity - Martina Di Lenola, Paola Grenni, Diogo N. Proenca, Paula V. Morais and Anna Barra Caracciolo 4 Towards integrated understanding of the rhizosphere phenomenon as ecological driver: can rhizoculture improve agricultural and forestry systems? -Luis G. Garcia-Montero, Pablo Manzano, Deaa Alwanney, Inmaculada Valverde-Asenjo, Amaya Alvarez-Lafuente, Luis F. Benito-Matias, Xavier Parlade, Sigfredo Ortuno, Marcos Morcillo, Antonio Gasco, Carlos Calderon-Guerrero, Francisco Mauro, Mercedes Mendez, Alvaro Sanchez-Medina, Maria P. Andres, Jose R. Quintana, Cristina Menta, Stefania Pinto, Liliana Pinto, Pilar Pita, Cafer Turkmen, Cristina Pascual, Esperanza Ayuga, Fernando Torrent, Jose C. Robredo, Pablo Martin-Ortega, Joan Pera, Luis Gomez, Gonzalo Almendros, Carlos Colinas and Eric P. Verrecchia 5 Impact of agricultural land management on soil bacterial community: a case study in the Mediterranean area - Annamaria Bevivino and Claudia Dalmastri 6 A metagenomic study on the effect of aboveground plant cover on soil bacterial diversity - Mariantonietta Colagiero, Isabella Pentimone, Laura Cristina Rosso and Aurelio Ciancio 7 What lies beneath: root-associated bacteria to improve the growth and health of olive trees - David Ruano-Rosa, Antonio Valverde-Corredor, Carmen Gomez- Lama Cabanas, Rafael Sesmero and Jesus Mercado-Blanco 8 Norway spruce fine roots and fungal hyphae grow deeper in forest soils after extended drought - Isabella Børja, Douglas L. Godbold, Jan Svetlik, Nina E. Nagy, Roman Gebauer, Josef Urban, Daniel Volarik, Holger Lange, Paal Krokene, Petr Cermak and Toril D. Eldhuset 9 Ectomycorrhizal diversity in beech dominated stands in central Europe - Christoph Rosinger, Hans Sanden and Douglas L. Godbold 10 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities pushed over the edge - lessons from extreme ecosystems- Irena Macek 11 An intact soil core bioassay for cultivating forest ectomycorrhizal fungal communities - Peter G. Avis, Ina C. Meier and Richard P. Phillips 12 Potential role of beneficial soil microorganisms in plant tolerance to abiotic stress - Raffaella Balestrini, Walter Chitarra, Vasileios Fotopoulos and Michelina Ruocco 13 Microbial communities, functional genes, and nitrogen cycling processes as affected by tree species - Relena R. Ribbons, Morag A. Mcdonald, Lars Vesterdal 14 Ectomycorrhizal fungal responses to forest liming and wood ash addition: review and meta-analysis - Rasmus Kjøller, Carla Cruz-Paredes and Karina E. Clemmensen 15 beta-glucosidase activity of forest soil as an indicator of soil carbon accumulation - Ewa Blonska and Jaroslaw Lasota 16 Linking ecosystem variability and carbon sequestration: estimation of sequestered carbon in natural forests and perennial crops - Jelena Milovanovic, Uros Radojevic and Mirjana Sijacic-Nikolic 17 Bioactive peptaibols of forest-derived trichoderma isolates from section Longibrachiatum - Tamas Marik, Andras Szekeres, Maria A. Andersson, Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen, Chetna Tyagi, Balazs Leitgeb, Csaba Vagvolgyi, Irina S. Druzhinina and Laszlo Kredics 18 Plant-assisted bioremediation: an ecological approach for recovering multi-contaminated areas - Valeria Ancona, Paola Grenni, Anna Barra Caracciolo, Claudia Campanale, Martina Di Lenola, Ida Rascio, Vito Felice Uricchio and Angelo Massacci 19 Bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil as affected by microorganisms and plants - Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo, Rosa Posada-Baquero, Jose Luis Garcia and Manuel Cantos 20 Soil biodiversity and tree crops resilience - Aurelio Ciancio and Mauro Gamboni