Soil science and management

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

Under new editorial direction, Advances in Agronomy both continues its long tradition and expands to include innovative methods and technologies.

This book presents advanced ecological techniques for crop cultivation and the chapters are arranged into four sections, namely general aspects, weeds, fungi, worms and microbes.

This book examines the way that lead enters the biosphere and the subsequent environmental impact.

This is the first book to comprehensively discuss Ecuadorian soils.

The fall of the iron curtain revealed widespread environmental and safety short- comings in relation to industrial operations, mining and other human activities.

Die Sanierung bewohnter Altlasten erfordert aufgrund der engen Verzahnung mit der städtebaulichen Planung und der persönlichen Betroffenheit der Anwohner eine gute Abstimmung und ein zielorientiertes Projektmanagement.

Like all industrialized countries, China has encountered increasing problems with land contamination in recent years.

Für die Betriebssicherheit und Lebensdauer von Verbrennungsmotoren sind ihre Lagerungen von entscheidender Bedeutung.

In spite of many years of intensive study, our current abilities to quantify and predict contaminant migration in natural geological formations remain severely limited.

This volume comprises the proceedings of the First International Rehovot Conference on Modem Agriculture and the Environment, held at the Rehovot Campus of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2-6 October 1994.

As the world population increases, there is increasingcompetition for waterquantity as well as quality.

This book presents the basic concepts of quantitative soil science and, within this framework, it seeks to construct a new body of knowledge.

Soil Mechanics: Calculations, Principles, and Methods provides expert insights into the nature of soil mechanics through the use of calculation and problem-solving techniques.

This books gives a complete overview of the Soils of Slovenia, from soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil propoerties, classification, fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industries and future soils issues.

This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale.

The complex topic of in-situ subsurface remediation technologies has been ad- dressed at an international symposium at the Universitat Stuttgart on September 26 and 27, 1995, on the occasion of the inauguration of the research facility VEGAS (Versuchseinrichtung zur Grundwasser- und Altlastensanierung).

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

Das vorliegende Buch ist der erste Band des Handbuchs des Umweltschutzes und der Umweltschutztechnik.

This book highlights the impact of climate change on the soil microbiome and its subsequent effects on plant health, soil-plant dynamics, and the ecosphere.

Global attention in scientific, industrial, and governmental commumtIes to traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic.

The understanding of plant-soil interactions in acid soils is important for improved food production in many parts of the world.

Large areas of the warm, humid tropics in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa are hilly or mountainous.

Heavy metal phytotoxicity has been known for more than a century.

This book enhances the discussion of anthropized soils with photographs of soil profiles and provides general information about soils in Japan, using data on their physical and chemical properties.

The papers assembled here cover topics such as technological advances in soil salinity mapping and monitoring, management and reclamation of salt-affected soils, use of marginal quality water for crop production, salt-tolerance mechanisms in plants, biosaline agriculture and agroforestry, microbiological interventions for marginal soils, opportunities and challenges in using marginal waters, and soil and water management in irrigated agriculture.

This book presents an important contribution to the knowledge of the banana soils of Venezuela.

This book presents advanced ecological techniques for crop cultivation and the chapters are arranged into four sections, namely general aspects, weeds, fungi, worms and microbes.

This book discusses analysis, design and optimization techniques for streaming multiprocessor systems, while satisfying a given area, performance, and energy budget.

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.

Systems at the surface of the Earth are continually responding to energy inputs - rived ultimately from radiation from the Sun or from the radiogenic heat in the - terior.

As part of its efforts to improve fertilizer use and efficiency in West Africa, and following the recent adoption of the West African fertilizer recommendation action plan (RAP) by ECOWAS, this volume focuses on IFDC's technical lead with key partner institutions and experts to build on previous and current fertilizer recommendations for various crops and countries in West Africa for wider uptake by public policy makers and fertilizer industry actors.

This volume reviews our current knowledge and novel research areas on Pochonia chlamydosporia, a cosmopolitan fungus occurring in soils as a saprophyte yet capable of colonizing the rhizosphere of crops as an endophyte and behaving as a parasite of eggs of plant-parasitic nematodes.

This book provides in-depth reviews of the effects of nanoparticles on the soil environment, their interactions with plants and also their potential applications as nanofertilizers and pesticides.

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization.

Chemistry of Plant Protection, Volume 7, provides critical review articles on new aspects of herbicide resis- tance, serving the needs of research scientists, pesticide manufacturers, government regulators, agricultural practitioners.

This book investigates soil ecology and biodiversity for its ability to maintain a balance of beneficial organisms to support plant growth.

Recent ecological disasters make human beings aware of changes in the Earth's climate.

The steadily increasing cost of nitrogen fertilizer has resulted in more emphasis on basic and applied studies to improve nitrogen use efficiency in lowland rice.

This book presents a comprehensive collection of various in situ and ex-situ soil remediation regimes that employ natural or genetically modified microbes, plants, and animals for the biodegradation of toxic compounds or hazardous waste into simpler non-toxic products.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

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.

The determination of the hazards resulting from the accidental or deli berate contamination of terrestrial and aquatic environments is in most countries still lirnited to the detection and quantification of the suspected pollutants by chemical analyses.

This book combines multidisciplinary studies on the environmental consequences of intensified use of land and water, and the fusion of land to provide food for a growing population.