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The chapters in this book were contributed either as oral presentations or as posters at a two-day meeting on 13-14 February 1992 organised on behalf of the National Committee for Biology of the Royal Irish Academy.

Soil-plant relationships once had a limited meaning. To the student of agriculture it meant creating optimum conditions for plant growth. To the ecologist it meant explaining some plant community distribu­ tion patterns by correlation with soil type or conditions. This dual view has been greatly expanded at an academic level by the discovery of the ecosystem as a practical working unit. A flood of concepts and information subsequently emerged ...