Soil science and management

Earthworms, which belong to the order Oligochaeta, comprise roughly 3,000 species grouped into five families.

This book explores the sustainability aspect of organic and conventional farming systems, which is commonly categorized into three sub-aspects: social, environmental and economic.

Boron is one of the essential micronutrients for higher plants growth and development, and more and more studies have been conducted to establish boron as an essential element in animals and humans.

This book deals with the sustainability of agriculture on the Black Earth by drawing on data from long-term field experiments.

Soil organic carbon (SOC), a key component of the global carbon (C) pool, plays an important role in C cycling, regulating climate, water supplies and biodiversity, and therefore in providing the ecosystem services that are essential to human well-being.

The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM) is a long-term, whole-watershed study examining the effects of experimentally elevated N and S deposition on a treated watershed, in comparison to the adjacent reference watershed.

This book presents the definition of aeolian desertification and uncovers its processes, driving factors, and consequences, and focuses on measures to effectively combat aeolian desertification in Northeast Asia.

This book gathers selected proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society, and covers various aspects of soil dynamics and earthquake geotechnical engineering.

Die Agenda 21, die als Abschlußdokument der UN-Konferenz über Umwelt und Entwicklung 1992 in Rio de Janeiro verabschiedet wurde, stellt den Kommunen die Aufgabe, mit allen Interessengruppen ihrer Bürgerschaft über einen Konsultationsprozeß einen Konsens über eine lokale Agenda zu erzielen.

This book explains the lifecycle of earthworms, biological features, multiplication of worms, species of earthworms that are suitable for vermicomposting, different sources of vermicompost, nutrient recovery and different procedures for making of vermicompost and importance of application of vermicompost in cereal, fruit and vegetable crops.

In the continuing fight against organic environmental xenobiotics, the initial success attributed to bioremediation has paled, in part due to the low availability of xenobiotics entrapped within a soil or sediment matrix.

The Penetrometer and Soil Exploration: Interpretation of Penetration Diagrams-Theory presents the many uses of the penetrometer for investigating soil conditions.

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Drinking water quality is a vast and complex subject.

The book presents the processes governing the dynamics of landscapes, soils and sediments, water and energy under different climatic regions using studies conducted in varied climatic zones including arid, semi-arid, humid and wet regions.

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R.

This book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 2nd MedGU Annual Meeting, Marrakesh 2022.

This book focusses on the thermodynamics of soil nutrient bioavailability, and in particular the most important plant nutrients such as, phosphorus and potassium, among major nutrients, and zinc among micronutrients.

In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable.

Developments in Geotechnical Engineering, Volume 19: Stabilized Earth Roads surveys soil stabilization theory and practice.

Boden-, Luft- und Grundwasserverunreinigungen durch gesundheitsgefährdende Abfallstoffe, z.

Published since 1959, Advances in Applied Microbiology continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology.

The enormous public interest of specialists as well as of engaged and concerned citizens in the energy problem can be understood in view of the fact that the future of national and world-wide economy depends on the availability of sufficient primary energy.

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

Die Bereitstellung von Energie ist eine zentrale Voraussetzung unserer technischen Zivilisation, die einen im Vergleich zu früheren Generationen unvorstellbaren allgemeinen Wohlstand ermöglicht hat.

Böden bilden eine wesentliche Lebensgrundlage der Menschen.

Das Buch führt zunächst die Hauptverursacher bzw.

The world population in 1930 was 2 billion.

This book addresses issues arising from discharge of effluents from sugar industry on to surrounding land or into a water body such as physicochemical properties of soil, changes in the micro flora, quantification of soil enzyme activities as influenced by effluents.

This book focuses on the role of soil structure interaction and soil dynamics.

This book is an update of Interferon, published in 1969 by Dr.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of saline and alkaline soils in Latin America, known for having one of the most extensive surface of salt-affected soils in the world.

Im Vordergrund stehen hier die Funktionen von Böden, die Bodeninhaltsstoffe sowie Empfehlungen zur Bodenprobennahme bei Altlasten- und Verdachtsflächenuntersuchungen.

This book focuses on the role of soil structure interaction and soil dynamics.

Most landslides are triggered by rainfall.

This book presents an important discussion on land tenure rights for the effective implementation of sustainable soil management provisions.

This book provides a timely review of concepts in plant disease management involving microbial soil suppressiveness and organic amendments.

I write because I am concerned that I and my agricultural colleagues have avoided addressing the moral dimension of the environmental and social problems we have contributed to.

***e FACHGEBIET*** Mathematical Geology, Computer Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Urban Economics and Regional Economics ***INTERESSENTENGRUPPE*** Of interest to Urban and Regional planners, civil engineers, geographers; computer scientists; operations researchers; landscape architects; and advanced students in the above disciplines.

The soil is the medium through which pollutants originating from human activities, both in agriculture and industry, move from the land surfaces to groundwater.

Continuing the international tradition of Advances in Agronomy, Volume 48 highlights crop and soil science including hybrid improvement in tropical maize, pearl millet as food, feed and forage, cotton host plant resistance to insects, and electrochemical techniques applied to soils.

Microbial communities and their functions play a crucial role in the management of ecological, environmental and agricultural health on the Earth.

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.

The contributed volume assimilates the knowledge, experience, and exciting aspects of soil carbon research in the Indian Himalayan region.

This is the first book where top researchers focus on presenting new research proposals in soil science.

`The fundamental problem the world faces today, is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on the limited resources of the land.

The adaptation of desirable agricultural plants to infertile and problem soils is an increasingly important trategy for improving food supplies in many parts of the world.