APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
A Section of Agriculture, Ecosystem & Environment
Volume 27, Number 2, October 2004
99
Association between subterranean termites and grasses in a West African savanna:
spatial pattern
analysis shows a significant role for
Odontotermes n. pauperans
P.Jouquet,N.Boulain,J.GignouxandM.Lepage(France)
109
Leaf litter breakdown in
natural and plantation forests of the Lama forest reserve in Benin
S.E. Attignon, D. Weibel, T. Lachat,
B. Sinsin, P. Nagel and R. Peveling (Benin, Switzerland)
125 Soil microbial
indicators sensitive to land use conversion from pastures to commercial
Eucalyptus grandis
(Hill ex Maiden) plantations in
Uruguay
M.Sicardi,F.Garcia-PrechacandL.Frioni(Uruguay)
135 Winter
decomposition of transgenic cotton residue in conventional-till and no till
systems
S.L. Lachnicht, P.F. Hendrix, R.L.
Potter, D.C. Coleman and D.A. Crossley Jr. (USA)
143
Spatial and temporal
distribution of earthworm patches in corn field, hayfield and forest systems of
southwestern Quebec,
Canada
J.K. Whalen (Canada)
153 Analysis
of the feeding ecology of earthworms (Megascolecidae) in Japanese forests using
gut content
fractionation and 815N and 813C
stable isotope natural abundances
T. Uchida, N. Kaneko, M.T. Ito, K.
Futagami, T. Sasaki and A. Sugimoto (Japan)
165
Diesel removal from
contaminated soils by biostimulation and supplementation with crop residues
L. Molina-Barahona, R.
Rodriguez-Vazquez, M. Hernandez-Velasco, C. Vega-Jarquin, O. Zapata-Perez,
A. Mendoza-Cantu and A.Albores
(Mexico)
177
Evaluation of soil conditions in fast-growing plantations of Eucalyptus
grandis and Acacia mangium in
Brazil: a contribution to the study
of sustainable land use
I.Garay,R.Pellens,A.Kindel,E.BarrosandA.A.Franco(Brazil)
189 The
effect of sampling unit size on the perception of the spatial pattern of
earthworm (Lumbricus
terrestris L.) middens
J.P.RossiandV.Nuutinen (France,Finland)