Sedimentology and pedology

Written by a renowned professional with more than 30 years of experience in environmental sampling and analysis, this reference describes in unparalleled detail all the essential elements for the development and execution of a successful sampling plan at both contaminated and uncontaminated sites.

Waste Management for Sustainable and Restored Agricultural Soil provides a holistic approach to various mechanisms of waste management for plant nutrients, highlighting the importance of improving plant growth, nutrient concentration, and system sustainability for enhancing crop production and achieving desired environmental goals.

Soil fertility and plant nutrition is an applied science that integrates knowledge across all disciplines of soil and plant sciences to provide nutrients effectively and efficiently to plants.

Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems.

Physical Nonequilibrium in Soils provides cutting-edge knowledge on physical nonequilibrium phenomena in soils, offering unique insight into the complexity of our physical world.

This book brings together the essential evidence and policy opportunities regarding the global importance of soil carbon for sustaining Earth's life support system for humanity.

The state-of-the-art in fluvial hydrodynamics can be examined only through a careful exploration of the theoretical development and applied engineering technology.

This book, first published in 1980, is a timely and comprehensive appraisal of thresholds in geomorphology.

Crop loss and insufficient yield are two important issues faced by farmers.

This is a unique book that deals with the problem soils, their constraints and management in the Indian context.

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input while maintaining high agronomic yields.

Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons.

This new volume emphasizes the drastic quantitative and qualitative transformation of our surrounding environment and looks at bioresource management and the tools needed to manageenvironmental stresses.

The high-resolution palynological study of the varved sediments of Lake Montcortes has provided a unique record of the regional vegetation shifts over the last 3000 years and of the natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change, unparalleled in the Mediterranean.

The Second International Symposium on the East African Lakes was held from 10-15 January 2000 at Club Makokola on the southern shore of Lake Malawi.

Based on discussions at the 2007 SETAC Europe PERAS Workshop in Coimbra, Semi-Field Methods for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Pesticides in Soil presents a timely summary of state-of-the-art higher-tier terrestrial risk assessment of plant protection products (PPPs).

This book on Applied Clay Mineralogy is comprehensive.

This volume, although not an integrated synthesis, treats most aspects of Holocene sedimenta- tion and diagenesis in the Persian Gulf, grouping 22 contributions under a single cover and in one language.

Fully revised and updated for its third edition, this book presents the definitive compilation of current knowledge on all aspects of biochar.

Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation.

Originally published in 1963, this classic textbook was revised fully for the 1972 edition.

This book addresses the various factors affecting fluvial systems, the processes governing them, system responses arising from human-nature interventions, and geospatial and geo-ecological modeling to understand system behaviour better and restore degraded ecosystems around the globe.

In many geological epochs, glacial sediments are widespread.

Improving Cereal Productivity through Climate Smart Practices is based on the presentations of the 4th International Group Meeting on "e;Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices,"e; and moves beyond the presentations to provide additional depth and breadth on this important topic.

The third most important cereal crop after wheat and corn, rice is a staple food for more than half of the world's population.

Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia's "e;Little Grand Canyon,"e; preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century.

This book provides an overview of newly gathered material focusing on the opening and closure of The Neuquen Basin.

This thesis encompasses a study of past precipitation patterns based on six cave stalagmites from different parts of the Indian Himalaya.

Grazing lands represent the largest and most diverse land resource-taking up over half the earth's land surface.

This book offers as comprehensive an overview as possible of the lithostratigraphy of the Italian region of Sicily, taking into account the multiplicity of formational and terminological variability developed over more than a century of studies and publications.

This book analyses the complexities of the rhizosphere ecosystem and discusses the role of insect pheromones in shaping soil health and vermicompost production.

Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation provides comprehensive information on soil pollution, including causes, distribution, transport, the transformation and fate of pollutants in soil, and metabolite accumulation.

Named "e;Outstanding Academic Title"e; by ChoiceThis encyclopedia, which constitutes a wide ranging and authoritative collection of academic articles, covers the sedimentological aspects of sediments and sedimentary rocks.

GlobalSoilMap: Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe contains contributions that were presented at the 2nd GlobalSoilMap conference, held 4-6 July 2017 in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record.

This book introduces the reader to the unique geology of Greece.

Sharply focused, up-to-date information on microbial biofertilizersincluding emerging options such as Piriformospora indica and MatsutakeThe Handbook of Microbial Biofertilizers provides in-depth coverage of all major microbial biofertilizers (rhizobia, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and cyanobacteriaas well as new

Nowadays, demands on modern civil engineering structures require not only safe technical solutions, but also additional approaches, involving ecological, sociological and economical aspects.

One main target in petroleum recovery is the description of of the three-dimensional distribution of petrophysical properties on the interwell scale in carbonate reservoirs, in order to improve performance predictions by means of fluid-flow computer simulations The book focuses on the improvement of geological, petrophysical, and geostatistical methods, describes the basic petrophysical properties, important geology parameters, and rock fabrics from cores, and discusses their spatial distribution.

In response to low iron availability in the environment most microorganisms synthesize iron chelators, called siderophores.

Sequence stratigraphy represents a new paradigm in geology.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

Originally published in 1988 Deforestation examines deforestation as a major environmental and development problem.

This book demonstrates different stages of hydrocarbon deposit localization in a tectonically complex region-the South Caspian Mega-Basin (SCMB).

The updated textbook is intended to serve as an advanced and detailed treatment of the evolution of the subject of stratigraphy from its disparate beginnings as separate studies of sedimentology, lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, etc.

This innovative study presents concepts and problems in soil physics, and provides solutions using original computer programs.

Emphasizing pioneering achievements, this work offers a clear and systematic description of various soil-water phenomena and their applications to soil problems such as water retention and the flux of water in soils and clays.

Plant biotechnology has come of age.