Plant-induced soil changes: Processes and feedbacks

Nachdrucked from BIOGEOCHEMISTRY, 42:1-2. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-90-481-5084-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 252 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: Developments in Biogeochemistry

This book consists of papers presented at a symposium "PLANT-INDUCED SOIL CHANGES: PROCESSES AND FEEDBACKS" that was held during the American Society of Agronomy-Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, November 4-8, 1996. The papers were also pub­ of Biogeochemistry (Vol. 42, nos. 1 and 2, 1998). The lished in a special issue symposium was built on the growing realisation that plant-induced changes in soil feed back in various ways to natural vegetations, giving rise to a plethora of plant-soil interactions beyond the classical one-way cause-and-effect pathways plant-to-soil and soil-to-plant. The aim of this special issue is not in the first place to present new research findings, but to review and discuss the more holistic aspects of plant-soil interactions, providing more room for speculation than do most collections of research papers. After a general introduction which emphasises ecological and evolutionary aspects of plant-soil interac~ions (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. ).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breemen, Nico Van

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geochemie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstwirtschaft, Forstwissenschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Plant—soil interactions: ecological aspects and evolutionary implications.- The effect of plants on mineral weathering.- Plant-induced changes in soil structure: Processes and feedbacks.- Effects of dominant plant species on soils during succession in nutrient-poor ecosystems.- Why do tree species affect soils? The Warp and Woof of tree—soil interactions.- Rhizospheric processes influencing the biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems.- Plant—soil interactions in temperate grasslands.- Plant functional type effects on trace gas fluxes in the shortgrass steppe.- Plant—soil interactions in deserts.- Polyphenols as regulators of plant—litter—soil interactions in northern California’s pygmy forest: A positive feedback?.- The role of balsam poplar secondary chemicals in controlling soil nutrient dynamics through succession in the Alaskan taiga.- The bio in aluminum and silicon geochemistry.