Oral Papers

Long-term sludge experiments: soil metal bioavailability to crops and microbes
Author: Paul Gibbs¹, Brian Chambers¹, Steve McGrath², Amar Chaudri², Colin Carlton-Smith³, Andrew Godley³, Jeff Bacon⁴, Colin Campbell⁴ and Mark Aitken⁵

A risk assessment of irrigation needs and pesticide fate under vineyards
Author: Steve Green¹, Brent Clothier¹, Marc Greven², Sue Neal² and Peter Davidson³

Influence of copper on soil microbial biomass and biodiversity in some NSW soils.
Author: Nargis A. Banu, Balwant Singh and Les Copeland

Current waste soil disposal practices in NSW
Author: Peter Graham

Competitive adsorption of heavy metals onto kaolinite
Author: Prashant Srivastava¹, Balwant Singh¹ and Michael J. Angove²

Heavy metals contamination of home grown vegetables near metal smelters in NSW.
Author: Anthony Kachenko and Balwant Singh

Heavy metal concentrations of natural soils in the Sydney basin
Author: Tom Knowles and Peter Graham

Use of a thin slicing technique to study rhizosphere metal concentrations in a biosolids-amended soil
Author: Ron McLaren¹, Martina Tschörtner², Heinrich Scherer², Gerhard Welp² and Colin Gray³

Cadmium desorption from goethite in the presence of desferrioxamine B and oxalic acid
Author: Ghulam Mustafa¹, Balwant Singh² and Rai S. Kookana³

Evaluation of cadmium toxicity to Collembola (Proisotoma minuta) using electron microscopy
Author: Ayulungit I. Nursita, Balwant Singh and Edith Lees

Recent research on bioavailability of persistent organic pollutants in soils and implications for risk assessment
Author: Rai S. Kookana

The effect of copper toxicity on the growth and morphology of Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) in solution culture
Author: Anna Sheldon and Neal W. Menzies

Arsenic in the New Zealand environment
Author: Brett Robinson¹, Brent Clothier¹, Nanthi S. Bolan², Santiago Mahimairaja², Marc Greven³, Christopher Moni¹, Monica Marchetti¹, Carlo van den Dijssel¹ and Georgina Milne¹

A novel technique for investigating the sorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants to soil
Author: Ron Smernik

Using a sequential extraction procedure to determine the bioavailability of Pb and Zn from highly contaminated soils
Author: D.P. Sorongan¹ and Balwant Singh²

The effects of environmental factors on HGT frequencies in New Zealand soils
Author: Stephanie Watson, Jacqui Horswell, Tom Speir and Philip Carter

Review of impacts on soil biota caused by copper residues from fungicide application
Author: Lukas Van-Zwieten¹, Graham Merrington² and Melissa Van-Zwieten³