Announcement V INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY Time: 16--21 April 1979 Place: Kuaia Lumpur, Malaysia Information: Professor J.I. Furtado, General Secretary, Organizing Committee, c/o Department of Zoology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Cable: Univsel, Malaysia.
Erratum Volz, M.G., 1977. Infestations of yellow nutsedge in cropped soil: effects on soil nitrogen availability to the crop and on associated N transforming bacterial populations. AgroEcosystems, 3: 313--323. (1) page 313, ABSTRACT, paragraph 2, line 2, should read: " . . . denitrify NO 3- to N 2 and/or N20."
(2) page 321, lines 8--11, should read: " . . . tissue. Denitrifier population densities are usually higher and the time required for a given a m o u n t of soil to denitrify a given a m o u n t of NO 3- is usually less in the root zone of plants than in bulk or fallow soil (Rovira, 1965; Volz, 1977; Volz and Starr, 1977)."