1. Decomposition rates and feeding activities of soil fauna in deciduous forest soils in relation to soil chemical parameters following liming and fertilization

   • V. Geissen
   • G. W. Brümmer

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 335 - 342

2. Earthworm response to rotation and tillage in a Missouri claypan soil

   • V. C. Hubbard
   • D. Jordan
   • J. A. Stecker

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 343 - 347

3. Influence of nitrogen on atrazine and 2, 4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid mineralization in blackwater and redwater forested wetland soils

   • J. A. Entry

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 348 - 353

4. Emissions of nitrous oxide from a constructed wetland using a groundfilter and macrophytes in waste-water purification of a dairy farm

   • A. Fey
   • G. Benckiser
   • J. C. G. Ottow

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 354 - 359

5. Interactions between earthworms, litter and trees in an old-growth beech forest

   • J.-F. Ponge
   • N. Patzel
   • R. Wittebroodt

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 360 - 370

6. Litterfall, litter decomposition and nutrient release patterns in four native tree species raised on coal mine spoil at Singrauli, India

   • K. P. Singh
   • P. K. Singh
   • S. K. Tripathi

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 371 - 378

7. Microsensor analysis of oxygen and pH in the rice rhizosphere under field and laboratory conditions

   • N. P. Revsbech
   • O. Pedersen
   • A. Briones

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 379 - 385

8. Short-term N availability in response to dissolved-organic-carbon from poultry manure, alone or in combination with cellulose

   • P. Martín-Olmedo
   • R. M. Rees

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 386 - 393

9. Growth and cocoon production by the earthworm Metaphire houletti (Oligochaeta) in different food sources

   • B. R. Kaushal
   • S. Bora
   • B. Kandpal

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 394 - 400

10. Effects of salts and moisture content on N2O emission and nitrogen dynamics in Yellow soil and Andosol in model experiments

    • K. Inubushi
    • M. A. Barahona
    • K. Yamakawa

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 401 - 407

11. Assessment of nitrogen mineralization potential and availability from neem seed residue in a savanna soil

    • J. O. Agbenin
    • E. B. Agbaji
    • A. S. Agbaji

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 408 - 412

12. Earthworm populations in a savanna-agroforestry system of Venezuelan Amazonia

    • Y. Araujo
    • D. López-Hernández

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 413 - 418

13. Accumulation of zinc and its effects on the growth, reproduction and life cycle of Drawida willsi (Oligochaeta), a dominant earthworm in Indian crop fields

    • R. Panda
    • S. S. Pati
    • S. K. Sahu

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 419 - 423

14. Influence of gibberellic acid on the sporulation of Azolla caroliniana, Azolla microphylla and Azolla pinnata

    • P. P. Kar
    • S. Mishra
    • D. P. Singh

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 424 - 429

15. Carbon additions increase nitrogen availability in northern hardwood forest soils

    • P. M. Groffman

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 430 - 433

16. Obtainment of a carbon-13-, nitrogen-15-labelled burnt soil

    • S. J. González-Prieto
    • A. Cabaneiro
    • T. Carballas

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 434 - 436

17. The use of nitrogen-15 natural abundance in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) to determine nitrogen fixation under different management practices

    • S. J. Kerley
    • S. C. Jarvis

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 437 - 440