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Physicochemical and biological interfacial interactions: impacts on soil ecosystem and biodiversity

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Soil is a vital biological habitat, which is of primary importance in determining and regulating biological activity and biodiversity. Therefore, it is Earth’s most important resource in sustaining both belowground and aboveground biological activities. Biodiversity versus landscape diversity and land use practices in multifunctional landscapes have been addressed. Humans have so manipulated nature that few locations in the world remain without human influence, causing unforeseen changes in ecosystem continuously and biodiversity. Among the environmental compartments, about 90 % of environmental pollutants are bound with soil particles. The soil-bound pollutants may be released to the soil solution through physical, chemical and biological interfacial interactions and pose a threat to biodiversity and ecosystem integrity. These interfacial interactions are especially important in the rhizosphere, where the kinds and concentrations of biomolecules are different from the bulk soil because of intense biological activity. These biomolecules affect biogeochemical processes, soil microbial ecology, nutrient and contaminant dynamics, abiotic and biotic factors, and soil biodiversity through allelopathic interactions. Soil interfacial interactions under different pedogenic processes and anthropogenic activity in relation to belowground biodiversity and the impact on aboveground biodiversity, productivity and integrity should be an important and exciting area of science for years to come.

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Project supported by Discovery Grant RGPIN 2383-2008 of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the National Science Council, Taiwan, for Financial support (NSC 86-2312- B002-014, 87-2321-B002-030-A07 and 88-2621-B002-023-A10) of forest soil projects.

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  1. Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A8, Canada

    Pan Ming Huang

  2. Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan

    Yu-Min Tzou

  3. Agricultural Ecology Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, 350013, Fujian, China

    Yibin Huang & Boqi Weng

  4. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Shunyao Zhuang

  5. Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan

    Shan-Li Wang & Ming Kuang Wang

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Huang, P.M., Wang, SL., Tzou, YM. et al. Physicochemical and biological interfacial interactions: impacts on soil ecosystem and biodiversity. Environ Earth Sci 68, 2199–2209 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-1903-9

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