Soil science and management

This book presents a comprehensive scientific overview of the components and processes that underpin the biological characteristics of soil fertility.

Landscapes are characterized by a wide variation, both spatially and temporally, of tolerance and response to natural processes and anthropogenic stress.

Feeding the increasing global population, which is projected to reach ~10  billion by 2050, there has been increasing demands for more improved/sustainable  agricultural management practices that can be followed by farmers to improve productivity without jeopardizing the environment and ecosystem.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

Coastal areas are commonly defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea, including large inland lakes.

In the 1980s and 1990s, green manure/cover crop (GMCC) systems became a popular agricultural technology in research and development efforts for smallholder tropical and subtropical farmers.

Supercomputing is an important science and technology that enables the scientist or the engineer to simulate numerically very complex physical phenomena related to large-scale scientific, industrial and military applications.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

Die Mobilität von Schadstoffen im Boden, ihre Analyse sowie die Interpretation von Meßergebnissen stellen die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte dieses Lehrbuchs dar.

This book contains the contributions to an European symposium on "e;Trace Elements in Environmental History"e;, held from June 24th to 26th at GCittingen, FRG.

Developments in Geotechnical Engineering, Vol.

Plants, being sessile and autotrophic in nature, must cope with challenging environmental aberrations and therefore have evolved various responsive or defensive mechanisms including stress sensing mechanisms, antioxidant system, signaling pathways, secondary metabolites biosynthesis, and other defensive pathways among which accumulation of osmolytes or osmo-protectants is an important phenomenon.

The world's population is expected to reach 8 billion by 2025 and most of this growth in population will occur in developing countries.

Earthworms are the most important members of the soil detritivore community and function as soil engineers because of their effects on soil properties and their influence on the availability of resources for other organisms, including microorganisms and plants.

This book analyses climate change influences on rainfall erosivity and soil erosion across Central Asia, provides an overview (past and projections) on the Central Asian countries where projected changes in rainfall erosivity and erosivity density are the greatest, and discusses the potential impacts on the environment across the region.

This manuscript was made possible by the exceptional support provided by INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquees) Toulouse, the University of New Mexico and the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering.

The prevailing global environmental crisis is primarily because of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation.

Regenerative Energiequellen sind zentraler Bestandteil der energiepolitischen Diskussion.

Soil is formed from physical and chemical weathering of rocks - processes described historically because they involve eons of time-by glaciation and by wind and water transport of soil materials, later deposited in deltas and loessial planes.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Taiwan.

The Soils of Italy is the first comprehensive book on Italian pedology in seventy years.

Agriculture is currently facing multi-faceted threats in the form of unpredictable weather variability, frequent droughts and scarcity of irrigation water, together with the degradation of soil resources and declining environmental health.

Recognized experts present incisive analysis of both fundamental and applied problems in this continuation of a highly acclaimed series.

Nowhere is the conflict between economic progress and environmental quality more apparent than in the mineral extraction industries.

This volume contains material first presented at an international workshop on the 'Use of Microorganisms to Combat Pollution', held in Israel, May 10--18, 1992.

This book explores the crucial transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture practices, focusing on the key drivers and indicators of soil health management.

This edited volume focuses on the characterization, reclamation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of salt affected soils and waterlogged sodic soils.

This volume addresses the similarities and also the differences in the genomes of soil saprophytes, symbionts, and plant pathogens by using examples of fungal species to illustrate particular principles.

This book provides an authoritative review of the origin and extraction of strontium and its impact on the environment.

Biology of Termites, a Modern Synthesis brings together the major advances in termite biology, phylogenetics, social evolution and biogeography.

ICARDA has the serious and urgent responsibility for increasing the quantity and availability of food in the extensive North Africa-West Asia region, and therefore must give high priority to optimising the use of soil water and nitrogen which are considered to be among the main limiting factors to production.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive report on the soils of Wisconsin, a state that offers a rich tapestry of soils.

This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures.

Band 1 dieses zweibändigen Lehrbuches gibt dem Lernenden aufbauend auf den Grundlagen einen Einstieg in die verfahrenstechnische Behandlung der vielfältigen Probleme mit dispersen Stoffen.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018, discussing issues and challenges relating to the characterization of geomaterials, modelling approaches, and geotechnical engineering education.

The main objective of this book is to present the distribution and diversity of major soil types in Serbia.

Recent years have brought an upsurge of interest in the study of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, partly due to the realization that the effective utilization of these symbiotic soil fungi is likely to be essential in sustainable agriculture.

The Australian Soil Fertility Manual is a trusted guide to the safe use and handling of fertilizers.

This publication comprises the proceedings of the first International Conference devoted to the structural roots of trees and woody plants.

The world is a dirty place and getting dirtier all the time.

The Soils of Croatia is a six-chapter book detailing all aspects of Croatian soils.

For a long time microbial ecology has been developed as a distinct field with- in Ecology.

In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book covers the extent, causes, processes and impacts of global soil degradation, and processes for improvement of degraded soils.

This book covers the basics of animal manure, or animal dung, and highlights its applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

Central to human life and civilization, soils are an integral part of the physical and cultural environment.

The concern over the entry of agrochemicals and other xenobiotics into drinking water resources and over the general quality of drinking water is increasing.

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation"e;, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, metalloids, fuel and oil hydrocarbons,  nano particles, pesticides, solvents,  organic compounds and various other contaminants.

This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals.

A successful cyber-physical system, a complex interweaving of hardware and software with some part of the physical environment, depends on proper identification of the, often pre-existing, physical element.