Sedimentology and pedology

Larger amounts of nutritious food are required to feed the growing world population, which is a great challenge due to water shortages and reduced crop plant yield.

This book reviews of recent findings on the mitigation of gas emission from landfills and sludge processing.

Reviews current understanding of the mechanisms of soil erosion, focussing on water-based and wind-based erosion processes Considers the effectiveness of mitigation measures to reduce soil erosion, including buffer strips, zero/no-tillage and cover crops Addresses recent advances in techniques used to measure, predict, track and model soil erosion, including digital soil mapping and proximal instrumental techniques

An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below.

A manual exploring modern hydroponic methods.

The fate of heavy metal particles in the environment is important because they tend to be reactive, mobile, and highly toxic.

With the help of this guide, you can use obtained test results to evaluate the fertility status of soils and the nutrient element status of plants for crop production purposes.

The Fourth Edition of the Handbook of Photosynthesis offers a unique and comprehensive collection of topics in the field of photosynthesis, serving as an invaluable resource in this field.

The fate of heavy metal particles in the environment is important because they tend to be reactive, mobile, and highly toxic.

Plant Growth Regulators to Manage Biotic and Abiotic Stress in Agroecosystems is a comprehensive book that explores the use of plant growth regulators (PGRs) as effective stress-reduction techniques in agricultural environments.

A manual exploring modern hydroponic methods.

This book provides a comprehensive review at the biochemical and molecular level of the processes and techniques that contribute to crop improvement.

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

Residual soils are found in many parts of the world.

Timely and reliable information on natural resources, regarding their potential and limitations, is a prerequisite for sustainable development.

In 2007, the first edition of Handbook of Plant Nutrition presented a compendium of information on the mineral nutrition of plants available at that time-and became a bestseller and trusted resource.

Soil deterioration, loss of productivity, and increases in toxic elements in soil induced by rapid industrial development and intensive cultivation are posing a serious threat to global food security and environmental sustainability.

Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering comprises 136 contributions from leading international researchers and practitioners, presented at the First European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (Durham, UK, 2-4 July 2008).

This revised second edition of the book presents an improvement of the original version in terms of recent research, corrections, and outline.

This revised second edition of the book presents an improvement of the original version in terms of recent research, corrections, and outline.

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

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

The second edition of Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels.

Timely and reliable information on natural resources, regarding their potential and limitations, is a prerequisite for sustainable development.

A comprehensive and practical overview of the state of the science, Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Interpretation addresses the derivation of soil quality standards for trace elements and the implementation of these standards within regulatory and risk assessment frameworks.

The largest part of the world's food comes from its soils, either directly from plants, or via animals fed on pastures and crops.

A guide to the magic of modern hydroponics for the home gardener.

The Handbook of Cucurbits: Growth, Cultural Practices, and Physiology contains information on cultural practices, nutrition, and physiological processes of cucurbits under both normal and stressful conditions.

Numerical models have become much more efficient, making their application to problems increasingly widespread.

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.

This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the realization of improved rain fed agriculture yield in semi-arid and dry land areas.

In any complete investigation of terrestrial ecosystems, rocks and soils must be considered.

Soil Solarization describes the principles and technology of soil solarization and the use of soil solarization for different crops and cropping systems.

This book discusses how important nanotechnology is for increasing agricultural production through better management of the soil and water.

Nearly two billion people depend on hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers for food security.

This book looks at how soil develops, what makes fertile soil, and what spoils soil.

This book provides a novel integrated solution for sedimentation problems in major dams in the Damodar River Basin.

Crop protection is becoming increasingly important due to the need for food security and to meet growing environmental challenges.

Following its predecessors, Plant Roots: The Hidden Half, Fifth Edition is thoroughly updated and reports the major changes that have taken place in root research since the last edition published over 10 years ago.

Traditional remedial technologies can be cost-prohibitive and sometimes contribute to environmental contamination themselves.

Soil deterioration, loss of productivity, and increases in toxic elements in soil induced by rapid industrial development and intensive cultivation are posing a serious threat to global food security and environmental sustainability.

Phytoremediation is the process that uses plants to remove pollutants from soils.

For as far into the future as we can see, governments will probably topple, power will continue to exchange hands, the climate will undergo continuous change, and the global economy will ebb and flow like the oceans.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge related to concerns about methylmercury (MeHg) in the soil-rice system.

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.

This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand.

The second edition of The Chemistry of Clay-Organic Reactions book provides a comprehensive and fully updated summary of the literature on the interactions of clay minerals with organic molecules, including reaction mechanisms and bonding modes together with their practical and industrial applications.

This laboratory reference compiles the essential protocols used in cyanobacterial research.