Describes various microbiological techniques, methods, and demonstrates tools that characterize the dynamics and chemistry of soil organic matter and soil testing for plant nutrients. This book provides a compilation of soil analytical techniques. It is suitable for those researchers and practitioners working with soil. "? It is authoritative, covering soil analysis in the broadest sense? all the chapters retained from the first edition have been updated and others added. ?Each method is described in detail? this book is a valuable vade mecum for any soil science laboratory." -Charlie Scrimgeour, in Experimental Agriculture, Vol. 44, 2008 "? a substantial revision of the first edition published in 1993. Many of the earlier chapters have been updated, and new ones have been added, in particular to deal with modern developments in soil biology, the chemistry of soil organic matter and techniques for characterizing the hydraulic behavior of soil. It is an impressive volume of 85 chapters and two appendices written by 140 authors, most of whom are Canadian and many recognized internationally as experts in their fields? Sound sampling and estimation are crucial to success in almost any study of soil? This book is a valuable compendium on soil analysis and merits a place in any soil laboratory." -R. Webster, in European Journal of Soil Science, Vol. 59, 2008 "The materials and procedures for ? methods are presented in straightforward language with adequate details, easy to understand and follow. ? well written and logically organized." - Mingxin Guo, Department of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Delaware State University in Environmental Quality, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009