Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gloabl importance and global cycling of selenium / Philip M. Haygarth -- Selenium in plant and animal nutrition / H.F. Mayland -- Adsorption, volatilization, and speciation of selenium in different types of soils in China / J.A. Tan -- Kesterson Reservoir - past, present, and future: an ecological risk assessment / Harry M. Ohlendorf -- Field investigations of selenium speciation, transformation, and transport in soils from\ Kesterson Reservoir and Lahontan Valley / Tetsu K. Tokunaga -- Geologic origin and pathways of selenium from the California Coast Ranges to the West-central San Joaquin Valley / Theresa S. Presser -- Distribution and mobility of selenium in groundwater in the Western San Jaoquin Valley of California / Steven J. Deverel -- Chemical oxidation--reduction controls on selenium mobility in groundwater systems / Arthur F. White -- Kinetics of selenium uptake and loss and seasonal cycling of selenium by the aquatic microbial community in the Kesterson wetlands / Alexander J. Horne -- Agroforestry farming system for the management of selenium and salt on irrigated farmland / Vashek Cervinka -- The algal- bacterial selenium removal system: mechanism and field study / Tryg J. Lundquist -- Selenium accumulation and colonization of plants in soils with elevated selenium and salinity / Lin Wu -- Vegetation management strategies for remediation of selenium- contaminated soils / David R. Parker -- Selenium volatilization by plants / Norman Terry -- Microbial volatilization of selenium from soils and sediments / W.T. Frankenberger -- Biochemical transformations of selenium in anoxic environments / Ronald S. Oremland -- Biochemistry of selenium metabolism by Thauera selenatis ge. nov. sp. nov. and use of the organism for bioremediation of selenium oxyanions in San Joaquin Valley drainage water / Joan M. Macy.