Plant-induced soil changes: Processes and feedbacks

Dordrecht

1998

252 S.

Bandaufführung

0-7923-5216-5

14132

71974

After a general introduction which emphasises ecological and evolutionary aspects of plant-soil interactions (van Breemen and Finzi), three papers deal with particular effects of plants on soil properties: mineralogy (Kelly et al.), soil structure (Angers and Caron) and soil fertility (Berendse). Next, five papers take up plant-soil interactions in specific biomes: forests (Binkley and Giardina; Gobran et al.), grasslands (Burke et al.; Epstein et al.) and deserts (Schlesinger and Pilmanis). Two papers discuss plant-soil interactions via effects of differences in litter quality in specific ecosystems: California's pygmy forest (Northup et al.) and the Alaskan Taiga (Schimel et al.). The last paper (Markewitz and Richter) deals with the oft negelected role of biocycling by trees in the geochemistry of aluminium and silica.