04700nam a22006495i 4500 978-3-031-66293-5 DE-He213 20251030112701.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240731s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031662935 978-3-031-66293-5 10.1007/978-3-031-66293-5 doi QR100-130 PSAF bicssc PSG bicssc SCI020000 bisacsh PSAF thema PSG thema Dervash, Moonisa Aslam. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 81632 Soil Organisms [electronic resource] : Deciphering the Life Beneath Our Feet / by Moonisa Aslam Dervash, Abrar Yousuf, Mohammad Amin Bhat, Munir Ozturk. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXII, 121 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda SpringerBriefs in Microbiology, 2191-5393 Introduction to Soil Organisms: Deciphering the life beneath our feet -- Unveiling and Understanding the Soil Biota -- Soil Stress Ecology: Concept, Impacts and Management Strategies -- Agricultural Industry: Blessing and a Curse for Soil Biota -- Bioindicators: The Eco-sensors for detecting Soil Pollution -- Microbial Goldmine and Organic Farming: A Key to Agricultural Production and Clean Environment -- Fungal Internet: The Natural Networking Systems -- Biodynamic Agriculture: Unknotting the Secrets of Sustainability -- Microbes and Ecosystem Cybernetics -- Soil Remediation: Biological Approaches, Regulatory Frameworks and Circular Economy. Soil biota is an important and fundamental part of terrestrial ecology. The soil organisms include all those life forms which pass significant proportion of their life within a soil profile. The range of organisms may vary from microscopic entities to a macro level organisms. These organisms are the hidden beauties which take up the task of food chain regulation, organic matter decomposition, and nutrient enrichment of soil. Soil organisms can be grouped into three classes viz; chemical engineers (bacteria,fungi and protozoans), biological regulators (small soil invertebrates like nematodes and mesofauna) and ecosystem engineers (large soil invertebrates and small mammals). These creatures are mainly regulated by certain physical and biological factors. The physicochemical characteristics of soil can determine its biological diversity which influences the regulatory services in an ecosystem. This book showcases the mechanisms of biological dynamics at micro, meso and macro scales of the soil organisms. The introductory chapters of this book focus on understanding the faunistic diversity and its significance in soil, bioindicators in assessment of soil quality, consequences of various stressors on soil, highlighting the eves and odds associated with agricultural industry vis-à-vis environmental pollution and the possible influences on soil biota. Remaining chapters focus on the fungal internet, ecosystem cybernetics, and the potential remedial technologies for soil conservation, and novel remediation strategies to deal with degraded soils. Microbial ecology. 64261 Soil science. Agriculture. 68079 Agronomy. 69554 Food Microbiology. 65137 Microbial Ecology. 64261 Soil Science. Agriculture. 68079 Agronomy. 69554 Environmental Microbiology. 64262 Food Microbiology. 69436 Yousuf, Abrar. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 81633 Bhat, Mohammad Amin. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 81634 Ozturk, Munir. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 68078 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031662928 Printed edition: 9783031662942 SpringerBriefs in Microbiology, 2191-5393 81635 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66293-5 ZDB-2-SBL ZDB-2-SXB 62092 62092