Soil science and management

Recognized experts present incisive analysis of both fundamental and applied problems in this continuation of a highly acclaimed series.

Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage offers a better understanding of mycorrhizal mediation that will help inform earth system models and subsequently improve the accuracy of global carbon model predictions.

Soils are neither good nor bad, but some have inherent or acquired characteristics that may or may not suit our intended use.

Conceptual separation of humans and natural ecosystems is reflected in the thinking of most natural resource management professions, including for- estry, wildlife management, fisheries, range management, and watershed management (Burch 1971).

Although this book is about a specific area of the world (i.

Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future.

Soil Reinforcement for Anchor Plates and Uplift Response presents a comprehensive and rigorous review of the current knowledge in soil improvement for anchor plates, and is based on original research that includes experimental data on how to enhance uplift response of soil anchor plates by using several soil reinforcement methods.

The volume presents a comprehensive overview of rotation effects on fluid behavior, emphasizing non-linear processes.

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

In this updated and expanded second edition, new literature has been added on contaminant fate in the soil-subsurface environment.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences.

Wetlands are very sensitive ecosystems, functioning as a habitat for many organisms.

Global attention in scientific, industrial, and governmental commUnItIes to traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environ- ments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations.

The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture.

Diazotrophic bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen to plant-useable form and this input of nitrogen through biological fixation is of great agronomic importance.

Mathematical models are being increasingly used to estimate the concentrations of a wide range of substances in the environment for a variety of reasons, including government control and legislation, and risk and hazard estimation.

This essential reference provides an introduction to the remarkable soils and landscapes of Australia.

Newly developed and innovative methods are mentioned and outlined so that the book can be used as a source of information for scientists and professionals specialised in the treatment of soils as well as for students in courses of environmental studies.

In every respect, human development and human security are closely linked to the productivity of ecosystems.

Der Begriff Umweltschutztechnik verbindet Schutz und Umwelt als Vorsorgeprinzip und Wiederherstellung geschädigter Ökosysteme mit technischen Mitteln.

Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Environmental Materials and their Industrial Utilization provides a description of the properties of materials formed on the earth's surface, their synthetic analogs where applicable, and the products of their modifications in the course of natural processes, such as weathering, or in industrial processing as reflected in their Mossbauer spectra.

This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system.

The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stake-holders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems.

This book addresses basic and applied aspects of two nexus points of microorganisms in agro-ecosystems, namely their functional role as bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides.

This volume brings together extended reviews and papers of new scientific research on atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts globally.

In the 1980s and 1990s, green manure/cover crop (GMCC) systems became a popular agricultural technology in research and development efforts for smallholder tropical and subtropical farmers.

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

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 the forensic geoscience in general and, in particular, in Italy and their application to peculiar crimes.

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

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.

Distributed in the East European countries, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, People's Republic of Mongolia, Republic of Cuba and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by Kultura, Budapest, HungaryThis volume presents the second part of brief characterizations and identification keys for oribatid mites inhabiting the Neotropical Region, as well as a check-list and bibliography of all described species from this area.

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

In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable.

Soil is formed from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks-processes described historically becau'se they involve eons of time-by glaciation and by wind and water transport of soil materials, which are later deposited in deltas and loessial planes.

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

This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin.

This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil, air and water.

Over the last several years, there has been much discussion on the interrelation of CO2 emissions with the global warming phenomenon.

This book encompasses current knowledge of soil microbiomes and their potential biotechnological application for plant growth, crop yield, and soil health under the natural as well as harsh environmental conditions for sustainable agriculture.

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

Central to human life and civilization, soils are an integral part of the physical and cultural environment.

This book describes a pathway for sustainable phosphorus management via the Global Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management project (Global TraPs).

This book addressed the pressing challenges of climate change, land scarcity, and food security, offering a comprehensive synthesis of research on using, managing, and reclaiming marginal lands in Africa.

Fruchtbarer Boden wird mit zunehmendem Bevölkerungsdruck und wachsendem Nahrungsmittelbedarf immer knapper.

Biochar Application: Essential Soil Microbial Ecology outlines the cutting-edge research on the interactions of complex microbial populations and their functional, structural, and compositional dynamics, as well as the microbial ecology of biochar application to soil, the use of different phyto-chemical analyses, possibilities for future research, and recommendations for climate change policy.

The world's population is expected to reach 8 billion by 2025 and most of this growth in population will occur in developing countries.

This edited book is devoted to environmental risk management in gas industry impacted polar ecosystems of Russia, one of the hottest topics of modern environmental science.

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.