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The soil ecosystem
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Soil as habitat http://museum.ednet.ns.ca/mnh/ nature/nhns/t9/t9-3.htm Soil biological communities of rangeland ecosystems http://www.id.blm.gov/iso/931/soil/ The soil ecosystem http://www2.nrcs.usda.gov/teachers/ soil_ecosystem.htm Life in the soil - soil biota in relation to agriculture http://www-crcslm.waite.adelaide.edu.au/ soillife.htm Analysis and function of soil food webs http://soilfoodweb.com/index.html	Lavelle, P. and A.V. Spain. 2001. Soil ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. Brussaard, L. and R. Ferrera-Cerrato.1997. Soil ecology in sustainable agricultural systems. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL. Killham, K. 1994. Soil ecology. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. Hatfield, J. L., and B. A. Stewart. Soil biology: Effects on soil quality. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.
Soil fauna
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A rap song about earthworms http://www.sisterschoice.com/ earthwormclipra.html Biology of plant parasitic nematodes http://sun.ars-grin.gov/ars/Beltsville /barc/psi/nem/what-nem.htm Soil predators http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/ school/soil/predator.html Biocontrol of plant parasitic nematodes http://sun.ars-grin.gov/ars/Beltsville /barc/psi/nem/cartoon.htm Nutrient cycling in earthworm burrows http://www.nstl.gov/review98 /onepage/parkin2.htm Movies of soil fauna and microflora http://www.agron.iastate.edu/ ~loynachan/mov/ Earthworms and soil management practices http://www.crop.cri.nz/curresea/ soil/wormman.htm	Edwards, C. 1998. Earthworm ecology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. Edwards, C. A., and P. J. Bohlen. 1996. Biology and ecology of earthworms, 3^rd ed. Chapman & Hall. Hendrix, P. F. 1995. Earthworm ecology and biogeography in North America. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL. Malakhov, V. V. 1993. Nematodes: Structure, development, classification, and phylogeny. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. Eisenbeis, G., and W. Wichard. 1987. Atlas on the biology of soil arthropods. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Soil microorganisms and microbiology
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The Microbe Zoo http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/ dlc-me/zoo/ Fungi http://museum.ednet.ns.ca/mnh/ nature/nhns/t10/t10-10.htm Microbiology of agricultural soils http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/research/ biomerit/agrisf.html Biological nitrogen fixation http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~rparsons/ Movies of bacteria http://www.cellsalive.com/	Alexander, M. 1977. Introduction to soil microbiology, 2^nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Coyne, M. S. 1999. Soil microbiology: An exploratory approach. Delmar Publishers, Albany, NY. Paul, E. A. and F. E. Clark.1996. Soil microbiology and biochemistry, 2^nd ed. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, CA. Sylvia, D. M., J. J. Fuhrmann, P. G. Hartel, and D. A. Zuberer. 1998. Principles and applications of soil microbiology. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Tate, R. L. 1995. Soil microbiology. John Wiley & Sons, New York.