Covers the ecological significance of the interactions among clay minerals, organic matter and soil biota. This book offers a view on basic aspects of mineral weathering reactions and, effects of soil colloids on microorganisms and immobilization and activity of enzymes, and metabolic processes, growth and ecology of microbes.
Different types of soil have diverse properties that make the evaluation of soil quality very complex. Soil quality research must, therefore, draw upon a wide range of disciplines, blending the approaches of biologists, physicists, chemists, ecologists, economists, and agronomists.
