Preserving Soil Quality and Soil Biodiversity. The Role of Surrogate Indicators

Editado por María del Carmen Lobo y Juan José Ibáñez, este libro está parcialmente basado en las conferencias que tuvieron lugar durante el International Workshop on Soil Enzymology celebrado en el Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario (IMIDRA) en mayo del 2001, y al cual asistieron expertos como Richard Burns, Paolo Nannipieri o Brunello Ceccanti junto a representantes de todos equipos de investigación incluídos en el Grupo Español de Enzimología de Suelos.

La ficha y el contenido del libro es el siguiente:

Preserving Soil Quality and Soil Biodiversity. The Role of Surrogate Indicators. 2003. Mª. C. Lobo & J. J. Ibañez (editors). IMIA/CCM-CSIC. Madrid, Spain. I. S. B. N. 84-451-2434-X

• Introduction. Mª C. Lobo and J. J. Ibáñez.
• Research trends in the development of soil enzymology. J. N. Ladd.
• Enzyme activities in soil: understanding and manipulating beneficial properties for bioremediation. R. G. Burns.
• Soil enzymology: some aspects of its interest and limitations. M. Bonmatí, P. Jiménez and M. Juliá.
• Stable humus-enzyme nucleus: the last barrier against soil desertification. B. Ceccanti and E. G. Masciandaro.
• Microbial activity in degraded soils under semiarid climate. Changes with their rehabilitation. C. García and Mª T. Hernández.
• Contamination and environmental impact on soil biological activity. I. Sastre, M. A. Vicente and Mª C. Lobo.
• Soil biochemical properties as indicators of soil quality. C. Trasar, Mª C. Leirós, F. García and F. Gil.
• Measurement of intracellular and extracellular enzyme activity in soil. P. Nannipieri, M. T. Ceccherini, L. Landi, G. L. Pietramellara and G. Renella.
• Soil functions, soil quality or soil health. Scientific, metaphorical or utilitarian concepts in soil sciences. A. García, J. J. Ibáñez and A. Bello.
• Biological activity of soils under organic cropping in Spain. R. Canet, Mª R. Albiach, F. Pomares and M. Ribó.
• Changes in soil lipid molecular assemblages related with land use of continental mediterranean forests in central Spain. P. Tinoco, G. Almendros and J. Sanz.
• Scientific rationality, quantitative criteria and practical implication in the design of soil reserves networks: their role in soil biodiversity and soil quality studies. J. J. Ibáñez, A. García, A. Saldaña and L. Recatalá.