Based on the papers presented at the Eighth North American Forest Soils Conference; and sponsored by the Soil Science Society of America, Society of American Foresters, Canadian Institute of Forestry, and Canadian Soil Science Society. Financial support provided by USDA Forest Service-Global Climate Change Program, ITF- Rayonier, Inc., Packaging of America, Georgia Pacific, Container Corporation of America-Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, Champion International Corporation, International Paper Company, and University of Florida-Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; Gainsville, Florida, May 1993.
Organizing Committee
| D.H. Alban | M.F. Jurgensen |
| J.R. Boyle | J.M. Kelly |
| R.D. Briggs | W.W. McFee |
| J.A. Burger | I.K. Morrison |
| D.W. Cole | D.G. Neary |
| N.B. Comerford | P.E. Pope |
| R.F. Fisher | R.F. Powers |
| N.W. Foster | D.H. Van Lear |
| J.D. Joslin |
Editor-in-Chief SSSA
Jerry M. Bigham
Managing Editor Jon M. Bartels
Soil Science Society of America, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin USA 1995
| Dedication | .................................................................................... v |
| Foreword | .................................................................................... xi |
| Preface | .................................................................................... xiii |
| Contributors | .................................................................................... xv |
| 1 | Soil Organic Matter: Clue or Conundrum? | Richard F. Fisher | 1 |
| 2 | Forest Soil Organic Matter: Characterization and Modern Methods of Analysis | John G. McColl and Noam Gressel | 13 |
| 3 | Fractionation of Soil Organic Matter with Supercritical Freon | Felipe G. Sanchez and Gregory A. Ruark | 33 |
| 4 | The Influence of Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Acids on Properties and Processes in Forest Soils | Thomas R. Fox | 43 |
| 5 | Characterization of Dissolved and Colloidal Organic Matter in Soil Solution: A Review | Bruce E. Herbert and Paul M. Bertsch | 63 |
| 6 | Chemistry of Carbon Decomposition Processes in Forests as Revealed by Solid-State Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | J.A. Baldock and C.M. Preston | 89 |
| 7 | Management-Induced Changes in the Actively Cycling Fractions of Soil Organic Matter | B.H. Ellert and E.G. Gregorich | 119 |
| 8 | Long-Term Changes in Organic Matter in Soils Receiving Applications of Municipal Biosolids | Robert B. Harrison, Charles L. Henry, Dale W. Cole, and Dongsen Xue | 139 |
| 9 | Soil Carbon, Soil Formation, and Ecosystem Development | Keith Van Cleve and Robert F. Powers | 155 |
| 10 | Soil Organic Carbon in the Missouri Forest-Prairie Ecotone | R. David Hammer, Gray S. Henderson, Ranjith P. Udawatta and Donna K. Brandt | 201 |
| 11 | Carbon Cycling in a Loblolly Pine Forest: Implications for the Missing Carbon Sink and for the Concept of Soil | D.D. Richter, D. Markewitz, C.G. Wells, H.L. Allen, J.K. Dunscombe, K. Harrison, P.R. Heine, A. Stuanes, B. Urrego, and G. Bonani | 233 |
| 12 | Toward a New Theory of Podzolization | Bryant A. Browne | 253 |
| 13 | A Model of Soil Organic Matter and its Function in Temperate Forest Soil Development | Robert C. Santore, Charles T. Driscoll, and Michael Aloi | 275 |
| 14 | Role of Carbon in the Cycling of Other Nutrients in Forested Ecosystems | Dale W. Johnson | 299 |
| 15 | Carbon Controls on Spodosol Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus Cycling | Mark B. David, George F. Vance, and Anna J. Krzyszowska | 329 |
| 16 | Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling within Mid- and Late-Rotation Jack Pine | Neil W. Foster, Ian K. Morrison, Paul W. Hazlett, Gary D. Hogan, and Maria 1. Salerno | 355 |
| 17 | Carbon Chemistry and Nutrient Supply in Cedar-Hemlock and Hemlock-Amabilis Fir Forest Floors | Cindy E. Prescott, L.E. Demontigny, C.M. Preston, Rodney J. Keenan, and Gordon F. Weetman | 377 |
| 18 | Belowground Responses to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in Forests | Richard J. Norby, E.G. O'Neill, and Stan D. Wullschleger | 397 |
| 19 | Soil Organic Matter: A Link Between Forest Management and Productivity | Gray S. Henderson | 419 |
| 20 | Soil Carbon in Northern Forested Wetlands: Impacts of Silvicultural Practices | Carl C. Trettin, Martin F. Jurgensen, Margaret R. Gale, and James W. McLaughlin | 437 |
| 21 | Carbon Dynamics Following Clear-Cutting of a Northern Hardwood Forest | Chris E. Johnson, Charles T. Driscoll, Timothy J. Fahey, Thomas G. Siccama, and Jeffery W. Hughes | 463 |
| 22 | Distribution of Carbon in a Piedmont Soil as Affected by Loblolly Pine Management | D.H. Van Lear, P.R. Kapeluck, and Melissa M. Parker | 489 |
| 23 | The Role of Forest Soils in the Global Carbon Cycle | Alex F. Bouwman and Rik Leemans | 503 |
| 24 | Comparison of Carbon Accumulation in Douglas Fir and Red Alder Forests | Dale W. Cole, Jana E. Compton, Peter S. Homann, R.L. Edmonds, and Helga Van Miegroet | 527 |
| 25 | Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Western Red Cedar and Soil Western Hemlock Forests | Rodney J. Keenen, J.P. (Hamish) Kimmins, and John Pastor | 547 |
| 26 | Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Oak Stands along an Urban-Rural Gradient | Richard V. Pouyat, Mark J. McDonnell, S.T.A. Pickett, Peter M. Groffman, M.M. Carreiro, Robert W. Parmelee, Kimberly E. Medley, and W.C. Zipperer | 569 |
| 27 | A Perspective on the Evolution of Forest Soil Science | Robert F. Chandler, Jr. | 589 |