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Microbial Ecology and Nematode Control in Natural Ecosystems

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Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes:

Part of the book series: Progress in Biological Control ((PIBC,volume 11))

Abstract

Plant-parasitic nematodes have traditionally been studied in agricultural systems, where they can be pests of importance on a wide range of crops. Nevertheless, nematode ecology in natural ecosystems is receiving increasing interest because of the role of nematodes in soil food webs, nutrient cycling, influences on vegetation composition, and because of their indicator value. In natural ecosystems, plant-parasitic nematode populations can be controlled by bottom-up, horizontal and top-down mechanisms, with more than one mechanism acting upon a given population. Moreover, in natural ecosystems soil nematodes inhabit probably more heterogeneous environment than in agricultural soils. New breakthroughs are to be expected when new molecular-based methods can be used for nematode research in natural ecosystems. Thus far, nematode ecology has strongly relied on coupling conventional abundance and diversity measurements with conceptual population ecology. Biochemical and molecular methods are changing our understanding of naturally co-evolved multitrophic plant-nematode-antagonist interactions in nature, the inter-connections within the soil food web and the extent to which nematodes are involved in many, disparate, soil processes. We foresee that finer nematode interactions that lead to their management and control can only be fully understood through the joint effort of different research disciplines that investigate such interactions from the molecular to the ecosystem level.

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  1. Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3046, 3001-401, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sofia R. Costa

  2. Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), 50, 6700 AB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Wim H. van der Putten

  3. Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, NL-6709 PD, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Wim H. van der Putten

  4. Nematode Interactions Unit Centre for Soils and Ecosystem Function, Rothamsted Research Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK

    Brian R. Kerry

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Costa, S.R., van der Putten, W.H., Kerry, B.R. (2011). Microbial Ecology and Nematode Control in Natural Ecosystems. In: Davies, K., Spiegel, Y. (eds) Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes:. Progress in Biological Control, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9648-8_2

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