Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems

Preface.

About the Editors. 

List of Contributors.

1 Evolution of Concepts of Environmental Natural Nonliving Organic Matter (M. H. B. Hayes).

2 Formation Mechanisms of Humic Substances in the Environment (P. M. Huang and A. G. Hardie).

3 Organo-Clay Complexes in Soils and Sediments (G. Chilom and J. A. Rice).

4 The Effect of Organic Matter Amendment on Native Soil Humic Substances (C. Plaza and N. Senesi).

5 Carbon Sequestration in Soil (M. De Nobili, M. Contin, and Y. Chen).

6 Storage and Turnover of Organic Matter in Soil (M. S. Torn, C. W. Swanston, C. Castanha, and S. E. Trumbore).

7 Black Carbon and Thermally Altered (Pyrogenic) Organic Matter: Chemical Characteristics and the Role in the Environment (H. Knicker). 

8 Biological Activities of Humic Substances (S. Nardi, P. Carletti, D. Pizzeghello, and A.Muscolo).

9 Role of Humic Substances in the Rhizosphere (R. Pinton., S. Cesco, and Z. Varanini).

10 Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in Natural Environments (F. H. Frimmel, and G. Abbt-Braun).

12 Natural Organic Matter in Atmospheric Particles (A. da Costa Duarte and R. M. B. Oliveira Duarte).

13 Separation Technology as a Powerful Tool for Unfolding Molecular Complexity of Natural Organic Matter and Humic Substances (I. V. Perminova, A. I. Konstantinov, E. V. Kunenkov, A. Gaspar, P. Schmitt-Kopplin, N. Hertkorn, N. A. Kulikova and K. Hatfield)

14 Analytical Pyrolysis and Soft-Ionization Mass Spectrometry (P. Leinweber, G. Jandl, K-U Eckhardt, H-Rolf Schulten, A. Schlichting, and D. Hofmann).

15 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis of Natural Organic Matter (A. J. Simpson and M. J. Simpson).

16 EPR, FTIR, Raman, UV-visible Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopies in Studies of NOM (L. Martin-Neto, D. M. B. P. Milori, W. T. L. Da Silva and M.L. Simões).

17 Synchrotron-Based Near-Edge X-Ray Spectroscopy of NOM in Soils and Sediments (J. Lehmann, D. Solomon, J. Brandes, H. Fleckenstein, C. Jacobson, and J. Thieme).

18 Thermal Analysis for Advanced Characterization of Natural Nonliving Organic Materials (E. J. Leboeuf and L. Zhang).

Index