Effects of organic mulches on soil microfauna in the root zone of apple: implications for nutrient fluxes and functional diversity of the soil food web

By T. Forge, E. Hogue, G. Neilsen, D. Neilsen. 2003

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Subfields: Plant Science

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• Plastic mulching in agriculture. Trading short-term agronomic benefits for long-term soil degradation? (2016, background): “nematode (Forge et al., 2003), ground beetle (Miñarro and Dapena, 2003) or earthworm abundances (Schonbeck and Evanylo, 1998) by”
• Orchard floor management effects on nitrogen fertility and soil biological activity in a newly established organic apple orchard (2008, background): “yield and improve soil physical, chemical and biological properties (Forge et al. 2003; Neilsen et al. 2003; Oliveira and Merwin 2001; Sanchez et al. 2003; Yao et al. 2005).”
• Responses of grassland soil nematodes and protozoa to multi-year and single-year applications of dairy manure slurry and fertilizer (2005, background): “protozoa and nematodes, are important consumers of the microbial biomass (Hunt et al., 1987; Forge et al., 2003 ) and are therefore indicative of microbial turnover and flux of nutrients through the soil food web.”
• Effects of Cover Cropping, Solarization, and Soil Fumigation on Nematode Communities (2006, background): “Forge et al. (2003) also found SI to be most sensitive to soil amendment treatments.”
• Orchard floor management practices that maintain vegetative or biomass groundcover stimulate soil microbial activity and alter soil microbial community composition (2005, background): “In a previous study of fruit-crop GMSs, treatments with higher organic inputs were associated with greater diversity of nematodes and higher populations of collembola (Wardle et al., 2001), or protozoans and bacterivorous nematodes (Forge et al., 2003).”
• Nematicidal Activity of Plant Extracts Against the Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne incognita (2009, background): “Amendment of organic plant materials also increases food sources which facilitates the population growth of bacterivorous nematodes (Rhabditidae and Cephalobidae), fungivorous nematodes [48] and predatory nematodes (Mononchidae) [49], which will also lower the population density of the plant parasit”