Soil organisms and sustainable productivity
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Soil Research
- Vol. 30 (6) , 855-892
- https://doi.org/10.1071/sr9920855
Abstract
The soil is a habitat for a vast, complex and interactive community of soil organisms whose activities largely determine the chemical and physical properties of the soil. In a fertile soil the soil biota may have a biomass exceeding 20 t ha-1, with life forms ranging from microscopic bacteria to the largest of earthworms which may be 1 m in length. Only a small fraction, probablyKeywords
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