Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Trace Metals in the Environment: Retrospect and Prospect -- CHAPTER 2 Trace Element Concentrations in Soils and Plants of Western Europe -- CHAPTER 3 Background Levels and Environmental Influences on Trace Metals in Soils of the Temperate Humid Zone of Europe -- CHAPTER 4 Metal Contamination of Flooded Soils, Rice Plants, and Surface Waters -- CHAPTER 5 The Transfer of Cadmium from Agricultural Soils to the Human Food Chain -- CHAPTER 6 Long-Term Application of Sewage Sludge and Its Effect on Metal Uptake by Crops -- CHAPTER 7 Fate of Trace Metals in Sewage Sludge Compost -- CHAPTER 8 Long-Term Behavior of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils: A Simple Analytical Model -- CHAPTER 9 Atmospheric Deposition of Metals to Agricultural Surfaces -- CHAPTER 10 Uptake and Accumulation of Metals in Bacteria and Fungi -- CHAPTER 11 Metals in Invertebrate Animals of Forest Ecosystems -- CHAPTER 12 Metal Tolerance in Plants: Signal Transduction and Acclimation Mechanisms -- CHAPTER 13 Dissipation of Soil Selenium by Microbial Volatilization -- CHAPTER 14 Mechanism of Manganese Adsorption on Soil Constituents -- CHAPTER 15 Multi-Element Analysis in Plant Materials - Analytical Tools and Biological Questions -- CHAPTER 16 Metal-Humic Substance Complexes in the Environment. Molecular and Mechanistic Aspects by Multiple Spectroscopic Approach -- Index