Advances in Agronomy. Volume 175

Table of Contents

1. Plastics in Soil Environments: All Things Considered Yuxin Huo, Feike A. Dijkstra, Malcolm Possell and Balwant Singh 2. Strategies to Improve Field Establishment of Canola: A Review Matthew N. Nelson, Nathalie Nesi, Jose M. Barrero, Andrew L. Fletcher,� Ian K. Greaves, Trijntje Hughes, Anne Laperche, Rod Snowdon, Greg J. Rebetzke and John A. Kirkegaard 3. Impacts of Land-Use Change on Soil Microbial Communities in the Amazon Rachel Danielson and Jorge L. Mazza Rodrigues 4. Microbial Trait-based Approaches for Agroecosystems Sascha M.B. Krause, Stefan Bertilsson, Hans-Peter Grossart, Paul L. E. Bodelier, Peter M. van Bodegom, Jay T. Lennon, Laurent Philippot and Xavier Le Roux 5. Layered Aluminosilicate Nanoskeletons: The Structure and Properties of Nanoherbicide Formulations Santosh Kumar Paul and Ravi Naidu 6. Perspectives and Strategies to Increase the Microbial-derived Soil Organic Matter that Persists in Agroecosystems Shamim Gul and Joann K. Whalen

Authors

Donald L. Sparks Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. DONALD L. SPARKS is the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Francis Alison Professor at the University of Delaware. He is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of kinetics of biogeochemical processes and surface chemistry of natural materials. His research has focused on fate and transport of trace metals in soil and water, soil remediation, water quality, and carbon sequestration in soils. Dr. Sparks is the author of two previous editions of Environmental Soil Chemistry and more than 350 refereed papers and book chapters. He is fellow of five scientific societies, and he has been the recipient of major awards and lectureships including the Geochemistry Medal from the American Chemical Society, the Liebig Medal from the International Union of Soil Sciences, the Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal from the European Geosciences Union. Dr. Sparks served as president of the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, has served on advisory committees for several national laboratories and national and international centers and institutes, and served as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Soil Sciences and other NAS Committees.