Soil Mineral -- Microbe-Organic Interactions: Theories and Applications (Hardcover, 2008)

Part I. Fundamental.- 1.Soil-physical-chemical-biological interfacial interactions: An overview.- 2. Sorption and desorpton of arsenic by soil minerals in the presence of nutrients and organics.- 3. Role of bacteria and bacteria-soil composites in metal biosorption and remediating toxic metal-contaminated soil systems.- 4. Adsorption of biopolymers, with special emphasis on globular proteins.- 5. Relationship of polarity and structures of organic matter with sorption capacity of hyrdophobic organic compounds.- 6. Organically modified clays for pollutant uptake and environmental protection.- 7. Microbial transformation of organic chemicals in natural environments: fate of chemicals and substantiation of microbial involvement through enrichment culturing techniques.- Part II Applications.- 8. Soil organic matter quality and the size and activity of the microbial biomass: their significance to the quality of agricultural soils.- 9.Soil carbon dynamics in a subtropical mountainous region, South China: results based on carbon isotopic tracing.- 10. Bioavailability of soil-sorbed pesticides and organic contaminants.- 11. Anticlastogenic and antitoxic actions exerted by humic substances in seedlings of various plants.- 12. Soil heavy metal pollution and microbial communities: interactions and response assessment.- 13. Changes in antibiotic resistance profile of soil bacterial community in association with land degradation.