Soil Mineral -- Microbe-Organic Interactions

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. Relatonship of polarity and structures of organic matter with sorption capacity of hyrdophobic organic compounds

6. Organically modifiied clays for pollutant uptake and environmental protection

7. Microbial transformation of organic chemicals in natural environmentas: 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 moutainous 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