Soil science and management

Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world.

Hakan Wallander is a professor in Soil Biology and the reader is guided through the fascinating world below ground.

Wine has been described as a window into places, cultures and times.

This chapter describes the processes involved in the transport of material over hillslopes.

This edited book's theme is organized as a part of the GeoMEast 2019 International Congress and Exhibition that was held in Cairo, Egypt, on November 10-14 2019.

These papers include two lectures which address the role of Plant Nutrition in the sustainability of agro-ecosystems and the production of enough high quality food to feed the growing world population.

This book covers all aspects of the diversity and core microbiome of the bio-control agents.

The 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (8HUES) was held on 12-14 June 2006 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines provides a clear understanding of vineyard soils and how to manage and improve soil health for best vineyard performance.

This Volume comprises 14 chapters in an attempt to provide the reader with available information on safe and effective use of entomopathogens.

This textbook is a comprehensive volume on sprinklers and drip irrigation and covers all the basic and fundamentals concepts related to these topics.

This book narrates how the study of the soil became a science and institutionalized in the USA between 1860 and 1960.

This book highlights various issues related to biodiversity conservation and land degradation, and the global challenges faced in achieving land degradation neutrality.

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.

The majority of this book was written in 1983-84 while the senior author was a Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Ökologie und Ökonomie: Ihre Integration stellt eine wichtige Aufgabe für Ingenieure heute und in der Zukunft dar.

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Nitrogen Economy in Tropical Soils presents an authoritative and comprehensive state-of-the-art review on soil/plant nitrogen inter-relationships, with special reference to tropical soils and crops in aerobic and anaerobic environments.

Soil is a complex system of inorganic and organic materials, living organisms, water, and air.

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This book addresses the impact of soil and water quality on food production, and explores soil and water conservation measures to be applied at farm level for agricultural sustainability.

Old and New Fields of Old-Field Ecology In ecology, succession occupies a place similar to that of evolution in general biology.

This book tackles the main feature of water-smart, soil-smart and crop-smart practices and their integration to sustainably enhance food production.

This book introduces key concepts in modeling and risk assessments of vapor intrusion, a process by which the subsurface volatile contaminants migrate into the building of concern.

The population explosion that began in the 1960s has been accompanied by a decrease in the quality of the natural environment, e.

This book presents state-of-the-art methodologies for the design and analysis of buried steel pipelines subjected to severe ground-induced action, including tectonic (quasi-static) effects, slope movements (landslides), liquefaction-induced actions or excavation-induced settlements.

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

This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and produce safe food.

In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable.

Today, at the beginning of the third millenium, just three cereal grains - wheat, rice and maize - dominate the world's food supply, accounting for some 75 % of all grains produced.

This Volume comprises 14 chapters in an attempt to provide the reader with available information on safe and effective use of entomopathogens.

River Morphology deals with the interaction between flowing waters in rivers and their environment.

This book represents the first comprehensive edition, in English, on the soils of Brazil, in the challenge of illustrating all the biomes of a country of truly continental dimension.

Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes.

Das Buch behandelt die Entstehung von Schadstoffemissionen und die Möglichkeiten zu deren Verringerung sowie den Kraftstoffverbrauch bei Otto- und Dieselmotoren einschließlich Dieselmotoren mit Direkteinspritzung.

This book presents an important discussion on urbanization and sustainable soil management from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable cities, soil sealing, rehabilitation of contaminated soils, property rights and liability issues, as well as trading systems with regard to land take.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This book informs about knowledge gain in soil and land degradation to reduce or prevent it for meeting the mission of the Sustainable Developments Goals of the United Nations.

Cultural understandings of soil are diverse and often ambiguous.

This book provides information about the nontarget nature of selected soil enzymes which are implicated in soil fertility and health and the methods for their assay.

Soilless Culture: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, is the first authoritative reference book on both the theoretical and practical aspects of growing plants without the use of soil.

The search for new strategies of pest control with safer molecules is currently of great importance and interest.

In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable.

In this new volume in the World Soil series, the various types of Icelandic soils, their different characteristics, their formation, degradation and erosion are reviewed.

This book highlights processes, impacts and management practices of bamboo expansion occurring in areas where it is distributed around the world.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of Korean soils, emphasizing their unique characteristics, historical significance, and innovative management practices.

This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management.