From lrbulluc@unity.ncsu.edu Tue Nov 2 00:02:15 1999 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:23:12 -0400 From: Russ Bulluck To: Joel Brooks Gruver Cc: sanet Subject: Re: stability in agroecosystems Joel, I'm not sure if this is exactly what your are loking for, but Deb Neher has looked at medium- and long-term perenial systems and annual systems, and the effects on microbial biomass and nematode communities. These are definitely non-crop! Neher, D.A., and Campbell, C.L. 1994. Nematode communities and microbial biomass in soils with annual and perenial crops. Applied Soil Ecology 1:17-28. -- Russ Bulluck Ph.D. Candidate Department of Plant Pathology North Carolina State University PO Box 7616 Raleigh, NC 27695-7616 http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/Personnel/Students/webpage.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The soil population is so complex that it manifestly cannot be dealt with as a whole with any detail by any one person, and at the same time it plays so important a part in the soil economy that it must be studied. --Sir E. John Russell The Micro-organisms of the Soil, 1923 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail