Soil Biochemistry

Soil Biochemistry

Soil biochemistry is one of the branches of soil science dealing with the formation and decomposition of soil organic matter, biochemical reactions of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, metals and xenobiotics in soils, and biochemistry of the plant-root rhizosphere. This chapter is divided into eleven sections, the first of which provides a definition of soil biochemistry and its scope of in...

Biochemistry of nitrification in soil.

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Preface to Soil and Environmental Biochemistry

Vii. Biochemistry of Metal Transfor- Mations in Soil

Required Readings: Grigal, D.F. 2003. Mercury sequestration in forests and peatlands: A review. Journal of Environmental Quality 32:393–405. Karlson, U. and W.T. Frankenberger. 1989. Accelerated rates of selenium volatilization from California soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 53:749-753. Juma, N.G. and M.A. Tabatabai. 1977. Effects of trace elements on phosphatase activity in soil...

DIVISION S-3—SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY Soil Nitrogen, Microbial Biomass, and Respiration along an Arctic Toposequence

than other regions of the world (Mitchell et al., 1990; Maxwell, 1992). Summer air temperatures in northern To investigate the interactions among mineral N, C availability, Alaska are predicted to increase 3 to 68C over current microbial biomass, and respiration in arctic soils, we sampled soils five times during a growing season from a toposequence on a slope levels, whereas precipitation duri...