Abstract
“EDAPHON” is the name which, from their analogy to the plankton, Dr. France has coined to cover all the forms of life occurring in the soil. In spite of the very considerable amount of work that has been done in recent years on these organisms, very little of it is at present available to the general biological reader. There are text-books of agricultural bacteriology and a considerable number of scattered papers dealing with single organisms or groups of organisms from the soil, but most of these reach only the specialist. Dr. Francé has therefore performed a real service in writing a brief general account of the soil fauna and flora, its conditions of life, and the influences of the different groups of organisms on one another and on the soil.
Das Edaphon. Untersuchungen zur Ökologie der bodenbewohnenden Mikroorganismen.
Von R. H. Francé Zweite Auflage. Pp. 99. (Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1921.)
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Das Edaphon Untersuchungen zur Ökologie der bodenbewohnenden Mikroorganismen . Nature 110, 206–207 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110206a0
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