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. )."
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