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Overviews the subject and addresses abiotic and biotic interactions and the impact on restoration of terrestrial ecosystems and human welfare. The book also addresses the issue of rhizosphere processes, the bottleneck for sustaining biological productivity and protecting the human food chain.
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Part I. Overview; Soil Minerals and Organic Components: Impact on Biological Processes, Human Welfare and Nutrition: K. Haider and G. Guggenberger; Modeling Soil Microbial and Geochemical Processes under Anaerobic Conditions: F. Dassonville and P. Renault; Impact of Soil Mineral - Organic Component - Microorganism Interactions on Restoration of Terrestrial Ecosystems: J.-M. Bollag et al.; Part II. Natural Organics and Xenobiotics; Soil and Organic Wastes: Transformation of Olive Oil Mill Waste Water and Clay Particle Aggregation: L.P. D'Acqui et al.; Dynamics of Extractable and Bound Residues of 14C-Metsulfuron-methyl in Soil: J. Xu et al.; A Study of Geochemical Parameters and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Concentration in Peat of Selected Peatlands in Northeastern Poland: M. Malawska and B. Wilkomirski; Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Concentration in Peat Profiles and Plants Growing on the Two Selected Raised Bogs in Poland: B. Wilkomirski and M. Malawska; Part III. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Boron; Catalysis of the Maillard Reaction by [delta]-MnO2: A Significant Abiotic Sorptive Condensation Pathway for the Formation of Refractory N-containing Biogeomacromolecules in Nature: A. Jokic et al.; Humus and Nitrogen Distribution in Particle-Size Fractions of Soils from the Chernozemic Zone of Kazakhstan: V.I. Kiryushin; Effects of Organic Acids on Desorption of Phosphate from the Surfaces of Aluminium Hydroxide and Complexes: H. Hu et al.; Pedotransfer Function for Estimation of Phosphate Adsorption Capacity on a Wide Range of Soils: O.K. Borggaard et al.; Sorption/Desorption of Sulfate on/from Variable Charge Minerals and Soils: Competitive Effects of Organic and Inorganic Ligands: A. Violante et al.; The Effect of Organic Matter and Soil Chemical Properties on Sulfate Sorption in Chilean Volcanic Soils: M.L. Mora et al.; Modelling Boron Adsorption Kinetics in Benchmark Soils of Punjab, India: S. Arora and D.S. Chahal; Part IV. Metals and Metalloids; Adsorption/Desorption Processes of Arsenate in Soil Environments: A. Violante et al.; Sequential Fractionation of Cu, Zn, and Cd in Soils in the Absence and Presence of Rhizobia: Q. Huang et al.; Oxalic Acid Perturbation of Imogolite Formation and the Impact on Cadmium Adsorption: M. Tani et al.; Charge Characteristics and Cu2+ Adsorption/Desorption of Variable-Charge and Permanent-Charge Soils: X. Li et al.; Phosphate-induced Cadmium Release from Soils: J.O. Onyatta and P.M. Huang; Part V. Rhizosphere Processes; Organic Compounds Associated with Water Repellency in Sandy Soils: S.H. Doerr et al.; Influence of Acetate, Phosphate, and Citrate on the Sorption of Acid Phosphatase on Variable Charge Minerals and Soil Clays: Implications in the Rhizosphere Chemistry: Q. Huang et al.
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