Soil science and management

Minerals, organic matter and microorganisms are the major solid components in soil systems.

Plant Physiology, Volume III: Inorganic Nutrition of Plants deals with the inorganic nutrition and metabolism of plants.

This book addresses issues arising from discharge of effluents from sugar industry on to surrounding land or into a water body such as physicochemical properties of soil, changes in the micro flora, quantification of soil enzyme activities as influenced by effluents.

The Advances in Applied Microbiology series, first published in 1959, continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology.

This book features review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge.

The purpose of this book is to give an introduction to the most important aspects of suspended matter in the aquatic environment: its origin and composition, the concentration distribution, transport and deposition, and the most important physical-chemical-bio- logical process that affects suspended matter: flocculation.

Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa.

This book is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated colour guide to the plants which farmers, growers and gardeners can use to improve soil structure and restore fertility without the use and expense of agrichemicals.

This book discusses many aspects of plant-nutrient-induced abiotic stress tolerance.

Changing desert areas for land use implies a lot of ecological problems.

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

This book covers cadmium contamination of soil and plants, its sources, acute and long-term impacts on the environment and human health, and overall challenges posed by the global poisoning issue.

 This book discusses different aspects of contamination in Indian food products.

The book comprises selected proceedings of the 2016 annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in Japan.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 10th internationalsymposium Humus et Planta held in Prague in August 19-23,1991.

Quantitative assessments of the effects of global change on soil development are mostly focused on soil carbon, some nutrients, pollutants and soil water.

Environmental Soil Chemistry illustrates fundamental principles of soil chemistry with respect to environmental reactions between soils and other natural materials and heavy metals, pesticides, industrial contaminants, acid rain, and salts.

"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.

For the first time a state-of-the-art of present metal pollution along the coastline of Latin America is provided.

Microbial communities and their multi-functionalities play a crucial role in the management of soil and plant health, and thus help in managing agro-ecology, the environment and agriculture.

This textbook provides practical guidelines on conducting experiments across the entire spectrum of environmental biotechnology.

Old and New Fields of Old-Field Ecology In ecology, succession occupies a place similar to that of evolution in general biology.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

Salinity and water stress limit crop productivity worldwide and generate substantial economic losses each year, yet innovative research on crop and natural resource management can reveal cost-effective ways in which farmers can increase both their productivity and their income.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

This textbook addresses the increasing trend in urbanization of the world's population and its relation with urban soils.

This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues.

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.

Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology synthesizes the research of specialists into a comprehensive review of the application of environmental tracers to the study of soil water and groundwater flow.

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.

This work focuses on the potential impact of climate change on soil erosion in a monsoon-dominated sub-tropical region.

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

Land-use change is one of the main drivers of many environmental change processes.

This book describes the environment in Galicia (NW Spain), with researchers and professors presenting their own photographs of relevant aspects.

Biological remediation methods have been successfully used to treat polluted soils.

This book focuses on the impact of climate change on India, addressing environmental problems and conducting an analysis of the climate change impact on mitigation processes.

As the world population is exploding and alongside fluctuations in climate is also prevalent, there is an increasing stress on the food requirements of the population.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

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.

This book will focus on microbial services as an excellent strategy to face the current challenge of global agriculture, collecting the principal studies that used microbial services for improving cereal production, such as rice, beans, maize and wheat.

Fundamental Aspects of Pollution Control and Environmental Science, 5: Pesticides in the Soil Environment focuses on the effects of pesticide use on the quality of soil.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Greece.

This book introduces basic and practical information on fertigation to researchers, extension agents and growers.

This book provides an overview of arid and semi-arid lands conditions, their general characteristics, methods of management, conservation, exploitation and reclamation.

The use of catalytic converters for the purification of automotive exhaust gases is a relatively new technology which was brought into existence by social pressures for the preservation of acceptable environmental conditions.

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This book presents the basic concepts of quantitative soil science and, within this framework, it seeks to construct a new body of knowledge.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of remediation and rehabilitation techniques and strategies for contaminated and anthropogenically disturbed land.