Soil science and management

This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Effects of Crop Rotation on Potato Production in the Temperate Zones.

Soil Structure and Fabric sets out a method of describing the structure and fabric of soils that proceeds consistently from macroscopic descriptions in the field to descriptions from standard thin sections as viewed with a light microscope.

This book discusses indigenous practices and obstacles faced by farmers conducting shifting cultivation (jhum) in North-east India and suggests methods of soil fertility improvement through e.

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.

Almost 50% of the total area of Austria is forested, and the forests are dominated by commercially valuable stands of Norway spruce ( (Picea abies).

High yields and environmental control in crop farming call for precise adaptations to local growing conditions.

This 2 volume book is an up-to-date overview of current progress in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal (AMF) technique development, inoculum production and its quality regulations, application in agriculture, horticulture, agroforestry and other ecosystems along with nutrient management for sustainable food production.

An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems.

The Australasia-Pacific Region supports approximately 50% of the world's population.

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The book on acid soils offers a thorough analysis of the degree of soil acidity at the global level, information on the biota, chemistry, and behaviour of acid soils, as well as the mechanisms by which plants tolerate soil acidity.

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

Land degradation in drylands is a multi-faceted problem.

This book provides an authoritative overview of emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils.

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

The Water Research Institute at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) is proud to have initiated and sponsored the International Workshop "e;Soil and Aquifer Pollution: Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids - Contamination and Recla- tion"e;, held May 13th-15th, 1996, on the Technion campus in Haifa.

This book helps the readers get a holistic understanding of the emergence of biochar-nanocomposite research.

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.

Soil and Environmental Chemistry, Second Edition, presents key aspects of soil chemistry in environmental science, including dose responses, risk characterization, and practical applications of calculations using spreadsheets.

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

Die Modellierung hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten als ein selbständiges Arbeitsgebiet herausgebildet.

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.

Defining ecology as a system-theory oriented synthesis ofboth earth and life sciences, the book aims at a novel co-herent understanding of chemicalimpact on the lower at-mosphere and characteristic types of terrestrial ecosystems.

The edited book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of scientific developments in agricultural sustainability under changing climate conditions.

Scientists are continually making exciting discoveries concerning the interactions between microbes and plants, interactions which may be damaging, in the case of plant pathogens, or beneficial, as in the case of nitrogen fixation.

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.

This book focuses on skeleton-degradable soils, including three typical degradation processes of soil skeletons: soil particle breakage, chemical degradation, and biochemical degradation.

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.

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

This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya.

"e;Advanced Techniques in Soil Microbiology"e; presents a wide range of biotechnological methods for application in soil microbiology analysis.

Soil Formation deals with qualitative and quantitative aspects of soil formation (or pedogenesis) and the underlying chemical, biological, and physical processes.

This edited volume focuses on the core aspects of sugarcane production-management under stressful environments as well as innovative strategies for augmenting crop growth & productivity through intrinsic and extrinsic manipulations.

This book establishes the equations of limit analysis and provides a complete theoretical basis for foundation capacity, slope stability, and earth pressure.

Mathematical models are being used more and more widely to study complex dynamic systems (global weather, ecological systems, hydrological systems, nuclear reactors etc.

This book presents recent lessons learned in the context of research and development for various dryland ecosystems, focusing on water resources management, land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation, and socioeconomic aspects, as well as integrated approaches to ensuring water and land security in view of the current and predicted climate change.

This book systematically covers the fundamentals and applications of modified biochar.

This book introduces readers to the main theories of phytoremediation and its application to arsenic-contaminated soils in China.

An increasing population has put tremendous pressure on agricultural productivity to fulfill the demands of human consumption.

Distributed in the East European countries, China, Northern Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and Mongolia by Academia, Prague, CzechoslovakiaThis book is based on the efficient subsoil model introduced by the authors in 1977 and applied in the last ten years in the design of foundations.

Irregular Shape Anchors in Cohesionless Soils presents a new type of soil anchor that can significantly lower cost and preparation time for application in low cohesion soils.

Mit diesem Buch sollen aktuelle Entwicklungen der Bodenökologie einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich gemacht und Anknüpfungen zu deren Anwendungsfeldern hergestellt werden.

Earth science is evolving into Earth system science,changing from a discipline-specific premise to aninterdisciplinary endeavor.

This is the first book solely devoted to Cryopedology, the study of soils of cold regions.

This contributed volume compiles the latest improvements in the field of biotechnology.