1. Fine Root Turnover in Forest Ecosystems

   • Hooshang Majdi

   OriginalPaper Pages: vii - viii

2. Part I: Fine Root Workshop

   Special Issue Pages: ix - ix

3. Measuring Fine Root Turnover in Forest Ecosystems

   • Hooshang Majdi
   • Kurt Pregitzer
   • Göran I. Ågren

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 8

4. Estimating Root Longevity at Sites with Long Periods of Low Root Mortality

   • Pål Andersson
   • Hooshang Majdi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 14

5. Influences of Root Diameter, Tree Age, Soil Depth and Season on Fine Root Survivorship in Prunus avium

   • John A. Baddeley
   • Christine A. Watson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 22

6. Fine Root Dynamics in a Tropical Rain Forest is Influenced by Rainfall

   • J. J. Green
   • L. A. Dawson
   • D. A. Elston

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 32

7. Comparison of Fine Root Dynamics in Scots Pine and Pedunculate Oak in Sandy Soil

   • Bohdan Konôpka
   • Jorge Curiel Yuste
   • Reinhart Ceulemans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 45

8. Part II: Regular Papers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 47

9. Increased Quantity and Quality of Coarse Soil Organic Matter Fraction at Elevated CO₂ in a Grazed Grassland are a Consequence of Enhanced Root Growth Rate and Turnover

   • V. Allard
   • P.C.D. Newton
   • C. Matthew

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 60

10. Effect of Drought and Weed Management on Maize Genotypes and the Tensiometric Soil Water Content of an Eutric Nitisol in South Western Nigeria

    • J. O. Azeez
    • D. Chikoye
    • M. T. Adetunji

    OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 68

11. Reduction of Cadmium Availability to Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Plants using Soil Amendments in Low Cadmium-contaminated Agricultural Soils: A Pot Experiment

    • Catherine Keller
    • Monica Marchetti
    • Nicolas Lugon-Moulin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 84

12. Growth Medium and Phosphorus Supply Affect Cluster Root Formation and Citrate Exudation by Lupinus albus Grown in a Sand/Solution Split-Root System

    • Liangzuo Shu
    • Jianbo Shen
    • Fusuo Zhang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 94

13. Leaf Mechanical Properties in Sclerophyll Woodland and Shrubland on Contrasting Soils

    • Jennifer Read
    • Gordon D. Sanson
    • Byron B. Lamont

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 113

14. Goethite Dissolution in the Presence of Phytosiderophores: Rates, Mechanisms, and the Synergistic Effect of Oxalate

    • P.U. Reichard
    • S.M. Kraemer
    • R. Kretzschmar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 132

15. Effects of Aluminum on the Growth of Tea Plant and Activation of Antioxidant System

    • Faezeh Ghanati
    • Akio Morita
    • Hiromi Yokota

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 141

16. A Comparison of Aluminum Resistance among Polygonum Species Originating on Strongly Acidic and Neutral Soils

    • Jiang Feng You
    • Yun Feng He
    • Shao Jian Zheng

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 151

17. Chemically Assisted Phytoextraction of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils using Three Plant Species

    • P. Zhuang
    • Z.H. Ye
    • W.S. Shu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 162

18. Phosphorus Acquisition Strategies within Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Community of a Single Field Site

    • Jan Jansa
    • Ahmad Mozafar
    • Emmanuel Frossard

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 176

19. Assessment of Root System Dynamics of Species Grown in Mixtures under Field Conditions using Herbicide Injection and ¹⁵N Natural Abundance Methods: A Case Study with Pea, Barley and Mustard

    • Guénaëlle Corre-Hellou
    • Yves Crozat

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 192

20. Effect of Enhanced Calcium Supply on Aluminum Toxicity in Relation to Cell Wall Properties in the Root Apex of Two Wheat Cultivars Differing in Aluminum Resistance

    • A.K.M Zakir Hossain
    • Takashi Ohno
    • Tetsuo Hara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 204

21. Belowground Interactions in a Vine (Vitis vinifera L.)-tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea Shreb.) Intercropping System: Water Relations and Growth

    • Florian Celette
    • Jacques Wery
    • Christian Gary

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 217

22. Spatial and Temporal Variation of Roots, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Plant and Soil Nutrients in a Mature Pinot Noir (Vitis vinifera L.) Vineyard in Oregon, USA

    • R. Paul Schreiner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 234

23. Tillage and Nitrogen Application Effects on Nitrous and Nitric Oxide Emissions from Irrigated Corn Fields

    • X. J. Liu
    • A. R. Mosier
    • F. S. Zhang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 249

24. Effects of Different Wetland Plant Species on Fresh Unweathered Sulphidic Mine Tailings

    • Eva Stoltz
    • Maria Greger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 261

25. The Symbiotic Requirements of Different Medicago Spp. Suggest the Evolution of Sinorhizobium Meliloti and S. Medicae with Hosts Differentially Adapted to Soil pH

    • G. Garau
    • W.G. Reeve
    • J.G. Howieson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 277

26. Effect of Mannitol from Laminaria japonica, other Sugar Alcohols, and Marine Alga Polysaccharides on in vitro Hyphal Growth of Gigaspora margarita and Root Colonization of Trifoliate Orange

    • K. Kuwada
    • M. Kuramoto
    • T. Ishii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 286

27. Mesocosms Mimic Natural Meadows as regards Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Potential Activities of Nitrifying and Denitrifying Bacteria

    • Teri Kanerva
    • Kristiina Regina
    • Sirkku Manninen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 299

28. Physiological and Anatomical Basis of Differential Tolerance to Soil Flooding of Lotus corniculatus L. and Lotus glaber Mill

    • Gustavo G. Striker
    • Pedro Insausti
    • Viviana Vasellati

    OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 311

29. Partial Root Drying Effects on Biomass Production in Brassica napus and the Significance of Root Responses

    • L. Wang
    • H. de Kroon
    • A.J.M. Smits

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 326

30. Plant Colonizers Shape Early N-dynamics in Gopher-mounds

    • Rosa M. Canals
    • Valerie T. Eviner
    • F. Stuart Chapin III

    OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 334

31. Quantifying the Effect of Rhizosphere Processes on the Availability of Soil Cadmium and Zinc

    • Thibault Sterckeman
    • Lise Duquène
    • Jean-Louis Morel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 335 - 345

32. Root Distribution and Nutrient Status of Mycorrhizal and Non-mycorrhizal Pinus sylvestris L. Seedlings Growing in a Sandy Substrate with Lignite Fragments

    • K. Baumann
    • B.U. Schneider
    • R.F. Hüttl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 357

33. Uptake of Selenium and its Antioxidant Activity in Ryegrass When Applied as Selenate and Selenite Forms

    • P. Cartes
    • L. Gianfreda
    • M.L. Mora

    OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 367

34. Genetic Analysis of Maize Root Characteristics in Response to Low Nitrogen Stress

    • Liang Chun
    • Guohua Mi
    • Fusuo Zhang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 369 - 382

35. Instructions for Authors

    OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 386