Titlebook: Soil; Reflections on the B Håkan Wallander Book 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 Biodiversity.Gardening.Soil.Sustain

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The Nutrient Cycle,post heap in your own garden. Along with fact-based texts, the chapter contains my own observations of the fascinating work of dung beetles and coprophilous fungi. I conclude with a reflection on sustainable gardening and how it may have been inspired by the conditions in the rainforest.

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Soil and Climate,hosphorus from urine to charcoal, to make soils in the third world more fertile while reducing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That is what the native populations in Amazonia did before the Europeans arrived and spread their diseases.

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A Matter of Taste,an influence the taste. Many of the chemicals that plants create when they are exposed to the sun and to the onslaught of various parasites seem to affect taste. Limited watering of the vines improves the wine, and the best tomatoes in Tunisia come from saline soils where the plants are exposed to physiological drought.

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How Soil Is Formed,e conditions enabling plants to develop was that algae joined forces with fungi, which were better at absorbing phosphorus from the ground. However the first soils were formed by microorganisms. Their complex miniature worlds, so-called biofilms, are described and compared with human cities. Acids s

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Floral Splendour and Shortage of Nutrients,a greater diversity of species than acid soils in Europe, whereas in Australia the opposite is true. One of the explanations to the great species diversity among plants is that there are many ways of adapting to the nutrient levels in the soil. Mycorrhizal fungi in the soil can also be a determining

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Biological Warfare,n, but also less well-known varieties such as cyclosporin, which revolutionised transplant surgery. Resistance to antibiotics is a growing problem in humans, but in South America there are fungi-cultivating ants which have been using antibiotics for millions of years apparently without encountering