1. Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and arylsulfatase activities in soils from a jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) ecosystem after clear-cutting, prescribed burning, and scarification

   • W. J. Staddon
   • L. C. Duchesne
   • J. T. Trevors

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 1 - 4

2. Injection of pig slurry and its effects on dynamics of nitrogen and carbon in a loamy soil unter laboratory conditions

   • L. Dendooven
   • E. Bonhomme
   • K. Vlassak

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 5 - 8

3. Growth of cassava cultivar TMS 30572 as affected by alley-cropping and mycorrhizal inoculation

   • O. Fagbola
   • O. Osonubi
   • K. Mulongoy

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 9 - 14

4. Abundance of springtails (Collembola) under four agroforestry tree species with contrasting litter quality

   • M. A. Badejo
   • T. I. Nathaniel
   • G. Tian

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 15 - 20

5. Impact of earthworms on the diversity of microarthropods in a vertisol (Martinique)

   • G. Loranger
   • J. F. Ponge
   • P. Lavelle

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 21 - 26

6. Effect of cycloheximide on N2O and NO3– production in a forest and an agricultural soil

   • S. Castaldi
   • K. A. Smith

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 27 - 34

7. Growth and iron nutrition of broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italica Plenck), grown in a Typic Ustochrept, as influenced by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the presence of pyrite and farmyard manure

   • T. J. Purakayastha
   • C. S. Singh
   • P. K. Chhonkar

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 35 - 38

8. Soil enzyme activities in the rhizosphere of field-grown sugar beet inoculated with the biocontrol agent Pseudomonas fluorescens F113

   • D. C. Naseby
   • Y. Moënne-Loccoz
   • J. M. Lynch

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 39 - 43

9. Influence of leaf litter quality on N mineralization in soils of subtropical humid forest regrowths

   • K. Maithani
   • A. Arunachalam
   • H. N. Pandey

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 44 - 50

10. 3D skeleton reconstructions of natural earthworm burrow systems using CAT scan images of soil cores

    • Y. Capowiez
    • A. Pierret
    • A. Kretzschmar

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 51 - 59

11. Nodulation pattern and acetylene reduction (nitrogen fixation) activity of some highland and lowland Acacia species of Ethiopia

    • F. Assefa
    • D. Kleiner

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 60 - 64

12. Response of nitrogen-transforming microorganisms to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    • E. Amora-Lazcano
    • M. M. Vázquez
    • R. Azcón

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 65 - 70

13. Biodegradation of benzoate with nitrate as electron acceptor at different redox potentials in sand column microcosms

    • J. J. Crawford
    • S. J. Traina
    • O. H. Tuovinen

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 71 - 78

14. Significance of earthworms in stimulating soil microbial activity

    • F. Binet
    • L. Fayolle
    • O. H. Tuovinen

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 79 - 84

15. Effects of storage time and straw content of cattle slurry on the mineralization of nitrogen and carbon in soil

    • P. Sørensen

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 85 - 91

16. Glomus-wetland rice mycorrhizas influenced by nursery inoculation techniques under high fertility soil conditions

    • M. Z. Solaiman
    • H. Hirata

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 92 - 96

17. Kinetic properties and stability of potato acid phosphatase immobilized on Ca-polygalacturonate

    • C. Marzadori
    • C. Gessa
    • S. Ciurli

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 97 - 103

18. Soil attributes as predictors of crop production under standardized conditions

    • B. Stenberg

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 104 - 112