Soil science and management

Eager to wear gardening gloves but feel lost in the garden?

Despite its many origins in agronomic problems, statistics today is often unrecognizable in this context.

Plant Solutions is a brand new contemporary problem-solving guide to finding the right plant for the right place in your garden.

This book provides a synthesis of the joined German-South African research project FarmImpact—Development of Sustainable Water Solutions for Farms in South Africa.

This book provides a synthesis of the joined German-South African research project FarmImpact—Development of Sustainable Water Solutions for Farms in South Africa.

Soil Fertility Evaluation and Control presents the theoretical background for practical applications of scientific work on soil fertility.

Crop water use can be increased by management of surface runoff, groundwater, irrigation, and soil water.

Produce more abundant, high-quality crops with the information you'll find in this book!

An essential book for all gardeners who want to give a bit more thought into the way they gardenAdvice on gardening in harmony with natureFrom gardening during drought conditions to the best friendly fungiPlus how to make the perfect compostA thoughtful and practical book on how to garden in harmony with nature.

Geoenvironmental Engineering: Contaminated Soils, Pollutant Fate, and Mitigation focuses on why soils and sediments remain contaminated.

Learn how to make and use nourishing compost for your garden with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener.

Este es un documento que desde su introducción permite al lector conocer las características y dinámicas de transformación de los suelos de alta montaña a través de herramientas y métodos que posibilitan el alcance de conocimientos técnicos y cómo tomar datos que generan información de alta calidad científica.

Una de las características para definir los suelos ándicos es su origen volcánico, juventud y fragilidad.

Los suelos y su fertilidad está concebido como texto de curso introductorio de suelo, destinado a alumnos de ciencias agrícolas y ambientales.

Soil and Environmental Chemistry emphasizes the problem-solving skills students will need when they enter their chosen field.

This book reviews the potential mechanisms in arbuscular mycorrhizas (AMs), in the hope that this can help arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to be more used efficiently as a biostimulant to enhance stress tolerance in the host plants.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

Over the past 20 years, synchrotron-based research applications have provided important insight into the geochemical cycling of ions and the chemical and crystallographic properties of minerals in soils and sediments.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book reviews the potential mechanisms in arbuscular mycorrhizas (AMs), in the hope that this can help arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to be more used efficiently as a biostimulant to enhance stress tolerance in the host plants.

It is the task of the engineer, as of any other professional person, to do everything that is reasonably possible to analyse the difficulties with which his or her client is confronted, and on this basis to design solutions and implement these in practice.

Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems is a comprehensive book describing the basic processes of carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems, their contribution to carbon sequestration and implications for mitigating abrupt climate change.

Es ist von größter Bedeutung, die Lebewesen im Gartenboden zu kennen und zu fördern sowie die Abläufe im Boden zu verstehen.

Es ist von größter Bedeutung, die Lebewesen im Gartenboden zu kennen und zu fördern sowie die Abläufe im Boden zu verstehen.

Build healthy soil and grow better plantsRobert Pavlis, a gardener for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the rhizosphere, and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement program in this three-part popular science guidebook.

This book focuses on the impact of waste disposal to land, providing an outline of the underpinning knowledge of processes associated with contaminant sorption, transport, and plant uptake.

Discusses New Advancements to Improve Existing Simulations of Plant NitrogenWritten by research pioneers and leading scientists in the area of agricultural systems, Quantifying and Understanding Plant Nitrogen Uptake for Systems Modeling comprehensively covers plant N uptake in agricultural system models, especially for building soil-plant system m

The quality of agricultural soils are always under threat from chemical contaminants, which ultimately affect the productivity and safety of crops.

The application of fractals and fractal geometry in soil science has become increasingly important over the last few years.

In this volume, the erosion and conservation measures discussed are, for the most part, those under unirrigated agriculture.

This book is the proceedings of a workshop entitled Effects of Sewage Sludge Quality and Soil Properties on Plant Uptake of Sludge-Applied Trace Constituents, jointly sponsored by the U.

Many leisure activities involve the use of turf as a surface.

Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods.

The hydrological and geochemical interactions between clay minerals and organic matter in soils directly influence the reaction, behavior, and mobility of heavy metals in soils.

Discusses New Advancements to Improve Existing Simulations of Plant NitrogenWritten by research pioneers and leading scientists in the area of agricultural systems, Quantifying and Understanding Plant Nitrogen Uptake for Systems Modeling comprehensively covers plant N uptake in agricultural system models, especially for building soil-plant system m

Discover farming techniques that will decrease soil erosion and costs!

Interacting Processes in Soil Science focuses on coupled processes in soil.

This book, first published in 1978, provides a comprehensive guide to soil properties in any major world region.

Developments in Geotechnical Engineering Volume 26: Ground Freezing presents the proceedings of the First International Symposium on Ground Freezing, held in Bochum, Germany on March 8-10, 1978.

Ecology of Root Pathogens discusses the significance of fungi infecting the roots, and emphasizes the significant diseases of roots and their symptoms.

Foundations on Expansive Soils provides the practicing engineer with a summary of the state-of-the-art of expansive soils and practical solutions based on the author's experience.

Cycling of Mineral Nutrients in Agricultural Ecosystems contains the papers presented in the first international environmental symposium of the Royal Netherlands Land Development Society held at Amsterdam on 1976.

Soil Properties and Behavior defines the structure of the soil-water system.

Interactions between Non-Pathogenic Soil Microorganisms and Plants provides a comprehensive discussion of the non-pathogenic microorganisms associated with roots.

Laterite Soil Engineering is one of a few books about solving engineering problems with the help of engineering pedology.

This book provides an introduction to classical soil mechanics and foundation engineering, and applies these principles to agricultural engineering situations.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the first International Symposium on Windbreak Technology, summarising the available worldwide literature on windbreaks and the response, both positive and negative, to wind protection.

Soil erosion has become a problem of crisis proportions in developing countries around the globe, and better approaches to land management are desperately needed.

Optimizing the Soil Physical Environment Toward Greater Crop Yields contains the proceedings of an invitational panel convened during the International Symposium on Soil-Water Physics and Technology held at The Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot, Israel, August 29 to September 5, 1971.

Soil and Water: Physical Principles and Processes describes the physical principles governing the soil-water system and particularly the sequence of processes constituting the cycle of water in the field.