Soil science and management

The aim of this book is to present, in depth, updated information on soil and microbial processes involved in mixed plantations of Eucalyptus and N2-fixing species, especially Acacia mangium, focusing on Forestry, Soils, Biology, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability.

This book presents definitions, key concepts and projects in landscape research and related areas, such as landscape science and landscape ecology, addressing and characterising the international role, status, challenges, future and tools of landscape research in the globalised world of the 21st century.

Bioremediation refers to the clean-up of pollution in soil, groundwater, surface water, and air using typically microbiological processes.

This book provides an overview of the diversified soil regimes in India.

This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture.

This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context.

Electronic and electric waste (e-waste), defined as end-of-life electronic products, including computers, television sets, mobile phones, transformers, capacitors, wires and cables, are a major global environmental concern.

This book addresses the threats that hamper the achievement of sustainable soil management: soil erosion by water and wind, soil organic carbon loss, nutrient imbalance, salinization, contamination, acidification, loss of soil biodiversity, surface sealing, compaction and water logging.

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

This Brief analyses and discusses the laterites in the Bengal Basin.

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

This book offers the scientific basis for the ample evaluation of badland management in India and some surrounding regions.

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

This unique book focuses on remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS) in Iraq.

This textbook presents the concepts and processes involved in the soil-plant-atmosphere system as well as its applications in the water cycle in agriculture.

This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia.

This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.

In recent years, radioactive contamination in the environment by uranium (U) and its daughters has caused increasing concerns globally.

This book conceptualizes a revolutionary idea based on a mechanistic-mathematical model in which the "e;Buffer Power"e; of the principal and problematic nutrients like phosphorus, potassium and zinc is quantified.

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.

This book focuses on a representative example and one of the world's largest steppe conversions, and provides a detailed overview of the results of the BMBF-funded research project KULUNDA.

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.

This book presents a summary of terrestrial microbial processes, which are a key factor in supporting healthy life on our planet.

This single-volume thoroughly summarizes advances in the past several decades and emerging challenges in fundamental research in geotechnical engineering.

This volume provides an overview of the fundamental concepts and recent advancements in organic farming, a form of agriculture that is increasing rapidly in popularity.

This book is the sixth and final volume in the Tasks for Vegetation Science book series, and it concludes the most comprehensive scientific documentation dealing with hypersaline ecosystems of the world.

This book explains the hypoplastic modelling framework.

This book focuses on the recent advances in precision agriculture and satellite farming, detailing applications for sensing, data handling, modeling, and control.

Bioremediation refers to the clean-up of pollution in soil, groundwater, surface water, and air using typically microbiological processes.

This volume is of interest to practical engineers.

This state-of-the-art book clearly explains the basic principles of soil hydrology and the current knowledge in this field.

Electronic and electric waste (e-waste), defined as end-of-life electronic products, including computers, television sets, mobile phones, transformers, capacitors, wires and cables, are a major global environmental concern.

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.

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

This book summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding antibiotics and antibiotics resistance genes (ARGs) in the soil environment.

Land deterioration, drought, desertification, and water resources shrinkage threaten natural resources, negatively impacting environmental, economic, and political stability.

Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations Explores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil types Provides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration practices across the globe

Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations Explores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil types Provides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration practices across the globe

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 presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives.

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 provides a novel integrated solution for sedimentation problems in major dams in the Damodar River Basin.

The accumulation of large amounts of ash from fossil fuel combustion for electric power plant generation is becoming a major environmental concern in the United States.

Computational Subsurface Hydrology: Fluid Flows offers practicing engineers and scientists a theoretical background, numerical methods, and computer codes for the modeling of fluid flows in subsurface media.

In a convenient, single-source reference, this book examines plant growth substances and their relationship to a wide range of physiological processes, ranging from seed germination through the death of the plant.

I intend to fill, with this book, a need that has long been felt by students and professionals in many areas of agricultural, biological, natural, and environmental sciences-the need for a comprehensive reference book on many important aspects of trace elements in the "e;land"e; environment.

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

The articles published in this volume are based on the papers del ivered at a conference on the Role of Metal Ions in Biological Systems held November 20 and 21, 1972, at Argonne National Laboratory.