Soil science and management

It is possible to have a great garden anywhere in Australia, even under the toughest water restrictions.

Cultural understandings of soil are diverse and often ambiguous.

This book focuses on the nature and properties of soils of Hindu Kush-Himalayas and their management for agricultural land use.

Mycorrhiza will be the focus of research and study for the coming decade.

Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways.

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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

Halophytes are those plant species that can tolerate high salt concentrations.

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, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

The importance of mycorrhiza for the improvement of plant growth is increasingly being realised in Agriculture and Forestry and several mycorrhizal fungi have been commercially recognised for the purpose.

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

This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region.

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

Advances in Soil Science is a review series relevant to all areas of soil science.

Gene expression in cells follows a prescribed pathway that conforms to the Central Dogma; where the genetic information stored in DNA is transcribed into RNA and then expressed into proteins, which influences most plant traits.

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.

This book looks at the sources and composition of the atmosphere and rainfall, with particular attention on acidifying components and those that affect ecosystems.

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

This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.

The frrst attempts to use physical methods in agriculture can be found in nineteenth century as a necessary component of farm and food machinery.

Die Messung biologischer Parameter von Böden erlaubt eine rasche Beurteilung der Auswirkung chemischer und physikalischer Einflüsse auf den Boden.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

This unique book addresses Iran's extremely rich soil diversity and resources, which have developed under various climatic conditions ranging from dry to humid conditions.

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This book is dedicated to the occurrence and behaviour of PHEs in the different compartments of the environment, with special reference to soil.

Until the late 1970s, most commercial power plant operators outside the United States adopted a spent fuel management policy of immediate reprocessing and recycling of recovered products.

This book gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions.

Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, dass der Nährstoff Phosphor in Böden und Landschaften sehr ungleichmäßig verteilt ist.

This is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art techniques evolved globally over the years .

Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation.

The book offers an integrated overview of plant-pathogen interactions.

Written by international authorities in agronomy, Volume 63 contains five comprehensive reviews covering key contemporary topics on crop and soil sciences.

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

This book is a state-of-the-art review of the physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of anthropogenic soils, their genesis morphology and classification, geocultural setting, and strategies for reclamation, revitalization, use and management.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

Co-utilization or blending of residuals offers a unique opportunity to develop products with particular characteristics that are able to target specific customer needs.

Organic wastes are traditionally applied to land to recover their fertilizer value, but the microbial turnover of such organic matter in soil is often out of phase with the requirements of growing plants.

It is the task of the engineer, as of any other professional person, to do everything that is reasonably possible to analyse the difficulties with which his or her client is confronted, and on this basis to design solutions and implement these in practice.

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This book provides an overview of the current development status of remediation technologies involving electrochemical processes, which are used to clean up soils that are contaminated with different types of contaminants (organics, inorganics, metalloids and radioactive).

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

The author is to be congratulated on her efforts and perseverance in undertaking this research, and Springer for making the material available in this book format.

This textbook explores the complex nature of soil biological communities and their environments, and covers deserts, rainforests, seasonal tropical forests, dry deciduous forests, and island environments in the tropical zone.

This book discusses how research efforts have established an organic link between pedology and edaphology of five pedogenetically important soil orders as Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of tropical Indian environments.

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.

Over the past 20 years, synchrotron-based research applications have provided important insight into the geochemical cycling of ions and the chemical and crystallographic properties of minerals in soils and sediments.

There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past.