1. Preface

   • Nico van Breemen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 4

2. Plant-soil Interactions: Ecological Aspects and Evolutionary Implications

   • Nico van Breemen
   • Adrien C. Finzi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 19

3. The Effect of Plants on Mineral Weathering

   • Eugene F. Kelly
   • Oliver A. Chadwick
   • Thomas E. Hilinski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 53

4. Plant-induced Changes in Soil Structure: Processes and Feedbacks

   • Denis A. Angers
   • Jean Caron

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 72

5. Effects of Dominant Plant Species on Soils during Succession in Nutrient-poor Ecosystems

   • Frank Berendse

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 88

6. Why do Tree Species Affect Soils? The Warp and Woof of Tree-soil Interactions

   • Dan Binkley
   • Christian Giardina

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 106

7. Rhizospheric Processes Influencing the Biogeochemistry of Forest Ecosystems

   • G.R. Gobran
   • S. Clegg
   • F. Courchesne

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 120

8. Plant-soil Interactions in Temperate Grasslands

   • Ingrid C. Burke
   • William K. Lauenroth
   • Richard A. Gill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 143

9. Plant Functional Type Effects on Trace Gas Fluxes in the Shortgrass Steppe

   • Howard E. Epstein
   • Ingrid C. Burke
   • Gordon L. Hutchinson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 168

10. Plant-soil Interactions in Deserts

    • William H. Schlesinger
    • Adrienne M. Pilmanis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 187

11. Polyphenols as Regulators of Plant-litter-soil Interactions in Northern California's Pygmy Forest: A Positive Feedback?

    • Robert R. Northup
    • Randy A. Dahlgren
    • John G. McColl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 220

12. The Role of Balsam Poplar Secondary Chemicals in Controlling Soil Nutrient Dynamics through Succession in the Alaskan Taiga

    • Joshua P. Schimel
    • Rex G. Cates
    • Roger Ruess

    OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 234

13. The Bio in Aluminum and Silicon Geochemistry

    • Daniel Markewitz
    • Daniel D. Richter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 252