Table of Contents

1. Effects of agricultural intensification on soil biodiversity and implications for ecosystem functioning: A meta-analysis
Marie-Anne de Graaff, Nicole Hornslein, Heather L. Throop, Paul Kardol and Linda T.A. van Diepen
2. Cakile maritima, a promising model for halophyte studies and a putative cash crop for saline agriculture
Delphine Arbelet-Bonnin, Ibtissem Ben Hamed-Louati, Patrick Laurenti, Chedly Abdelly, Karim Ben Hamed and François Bouteau
3. Metal bioavailability and the soil microbiome
Tarah S. Sullivan and Geoffrey M. Gadd
4. Breeding strategies for structuring salinity tolerance in wheat
Abdul Mujeeb-Kazi, Rana Munns, Awais Rasheed, Francis C. Ogbonnaya, Niaz Ali, Philip Hollington, Ian Dundas, Nasir Saeed, Richard Wang, Pichu Rengasamy, Muhammad Sohail Saddiq, Jose Luis Diaz de Leon, Muhammad Ashraf and Sanjaya Rajaram
5. Review of existing knowledge on soil crusting in South Africa
Michiel Christiaan Laker and Gerhardus Petrus Nortjé
6. New directions for integrated weed management: Modern technologies, tools and knowledge discovery
Nicholas E. Korres, Nilda R. Burgos, Ilias Travlos, Maurizio Vurro, Thomas K. Gitsopoulos, Vijaya K. Varanasi, Stephen O. Duke, Per Kudsk, Chad Brabham, Christopher E. Rouse and Reiofeli Salas-Perez

About the Author

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.