Organism-Environment Interactions

Rutter M, Pickles A. 1991. Person-environment interactions Concepts, mechanisms, and implications for data analysis. In Wachs TD, Plomin R, eds. Conceptualization and Measurement of Organism Environment Interaction. Washington, DC American Psychological Association. Pp. 105-141. 

Most research on the rhizospherc environment has been forcedly descriptive in the past. Recent advances show that organic compounds present in the rhizo-sphere can have a specific role in plant-micro-organism-soil interactions. Moreover, it starts to be elucidated ... 

Chin, Y.-R, Weber, Jr., W.J. (1989) Estimating the effects of dispersed organic polymers on the sorption contaminants by natural solid, 1. A predictive thermodynamic humic substance-organic solute interaction model. Environ. Sci. Technol. 23, 978-984. 

Gaffney JS, Streit GE, Spall WD, et al. 1987. Beyond acid rain - do soluble oxidants and organic toxins interact with S02 andNOXto increase ecosystem effects. Environ Sci Technol 21 519-523. 

The enhancement of kerosene dissolution occurs even at low humic acid content in the aqueous solution. In view of the fact that humic substances are relatively high molecular weight species containing nonpolar organic moieties, Chiou et al. (1986) assumed that a partition-like interaction between a solute of very low solubility in aqueous solution and a microscopic organic environment of dissolved humic molecules can explain solute solubility enhancement. 

Stevenson F. J. (1983). Trace metal-organic matter interaction in geologic environment. In The Significance of Trace Elements in Solving Petrogenetic Problems and Controversies, S. Au-gustitis, ed. Theophrastus Publications, Athens. 

Nauta, W.J., Baars, T. and Bovenhuis, H. 2005. Genotype environment interactions for milk production traits between conventional and organic dairy farming in the Netherlands. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 22 217-249. 

Hood, D. W., "Organic-Inorganic Interactions in the Aquatic Environ-... 

Charged colloids and water-in-oil microemulsions provide organized environments that control photosensitized electron transfer reactions. Effective charge separation of the primary encounter cage complex, and subsequent stabilization of the photoproducts against back electron transfer reactions is achieved by means of electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions of the photoproducts and the organized media. 

Figure 2. Charge separation and stabilization of photoproducts in organized environments a) Application of the electrostatic interactions with charged Si02 colloids, b) Use of hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions in water-in-oil microemulsions.

Figure 2.21. Mechanisms of the oxidative polymerization of catechol to melanins (humic polymers) in the presence of tyrosinase or birnessite. Reprinted with permission from Naidja, A., Huang, P. M., Dec, J., and Bollag, J.-M. (1999). Kinetics of catechol oxidation catalyzed by tyrosinase or 8-Mn02. In Effect of Mineral-Organic-Microorganism Interactions on Soil and Freshwater Environments, Berthelin, J., Huang, P. M., Bollag, J.-M., and Andreux, F., eds., Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 181-188.

Most commercial chicken meat production has become industrialized and in many cases involves enclosed housing without access to outdoors. In such conditions the environment is strictly controlled and genotype-environment interactions can be disregarded. These interactions become more important when the birds are raised organically. 

Lee, D.Y. and W.J. Farmer (1989). Dissolved organic matter interaction with napropamide and four other nonionic pesticides. J. Environ. Qual., 18 468-474. 

Avila and Goff 1998), submersed in water, hanged, or buried. Each of these circumstances alters the decompositional environment in some way and defines the environment within which carrion-related organisms will interact. 

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