Soil science and management

This book discusses the cross-talk between plants and microbes in the rhizosphere.

This thoughtful and provocative book provides a concise, up-to-date presentation of how current and projected future phosphorus scarcity will affect legume growth and their symbiotic nitrogen-fixing capabilities.

Desertification has occurred worldwide.

This book capitalizes on data collected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service & other organizations over the past 100+ years & offers the first comprehensive treatment of Mississippi soils.

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

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception.

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.

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.

This volume is a ready reference on sustainable agriculture and reinforce the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems.

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 provides a multidisciplinary synthesis of the sustainable management of natural resources.

This book discusses the cross-talk between plants and microbes in the rhizosphere.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This book narrates how the study of the soil became a science and institutionalized in the USA between 1860 and 1960.

This book provides an introduction to classical soil mechanics and foundation engineering, and applies these principles to agricultural engineering situations.

Desertification (land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting mainly from adverse human impacts) is the main environmental problem of dry lands, which occupy more than 40 per cent of the total global land area.

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

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception.

This volume contains material first presented at an international workshop on the 'Use of Microorganisms to Combat Pollution', held in Israel, May 10--18, 1992.

This book explores the interaction between climate change phenomena and the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC), which inspects the crucial role of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in modifying the net ecosystem response towards the modified environment.

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

This book highlights the impact of climate change on the soil microbiome and its subsequent effects on plant health, soil-plant dynamics, and the ecosphere.

Origin and Mineralogy of Clays, the first of two volumes, lays the groundwork for a thorough study of clays in the environment.

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

Written by outstanding experts in the fields of marine engineering, atmospheric physics and chemistry, fluid dynamics and applied mathematics, the contributions in this book cover a wide range of subjects, from pure mathematics to real-world applications in the oil spill engineering business.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of strategies to combat pressing environmental challenges, focusing on pollution remediation and climate change mitigation.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants.

In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).

About four years ago Dr.

Sandy soils cover approximately 900 million ha worldwide, and there are extensive areas of sandy soils under cultivation.

This book explores the crucial transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture practices, focusing on the key drivers and indicators of soil health management.

For a long time microbial ecology has been developed as a distinct field with- in Ecology.

This book summarise advanced knowledge and methods to recycle waste and fertilise soils in agriculture.

This proceedings book focuses on advanced technologies to monitor and model urban soils, vegetation and climate, including internet of things, remote sensing, express and non-destructive techniques.

"e;Bio-Stabilization Case Studies: Treatment and Performance Evaluation"e; describes and evaluates 30 projects from across the United States where bio-stabilization was employed to address a detrimental naturally occurring process or byproduct of the built environment.

In spite of many years of intensive study, our current abilities to quantify and predict contaminant migration in natural geological formations remain severely limited.

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.

The first soil survey in the Philippines was done by Mr.

Maize is one of the most generally grown cereal crops at global level, followed by wheat and rice.

In this spirit, the ATMSS International Workshop "e;Advances in Laboratory Testing & Modelling of Soils and Shales"e; (Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland; 18-20 January 2017) has been organized to promote the exchange of ideas, experience and state of the art among major experts active in the field of experimental testing and modelling of soils and shales.

This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference.

This book gathers the latest insights into soil health and its sustainability, providing an up-to-date overview of the various aspects of soil quality and fertility management, e.

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

The main focus of this monograph is to explain the important role of soil and the environment to a broad audience.

This book presents state-of-the-art methodologies for the design and analysis of buried steel pipelines subjected to severe ground-induced action, including tectonic (quasi-static) effects, slope movements (landslides), liquefaction-induced actions or excavation-induced settlements.

This book provides research-based advancements into the effects of changing environmental conditions on the diverse plant-symbiont community.