Soils Under Stress

Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine. His student and friend, Volodymyr Vernadsky, went on to create trans-disciplinary environmental sciences and the concept of Earth as a living organism, famously taken up by James Lovelock. That spring of ideas still flows and the researches captured in this volume are relevant to present-day problems, and not only in Ukraine. Soils hav…

The Soils of Libya

This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya. Soils are the source of all life; there can be no life without them. Further, each soil has its own history and its present conditions, which have been shaped by many different factors (e.g. climate, biota, parent material, and relief or topography). The book, divided into eight chapters, provides extensive information on Libyan soils. Chapter…

Soil and Recycling Management in the Anthropocene Era

This book discusses soil and recycling management in the Anthropocene era. Nitrogen shortage is one of nature’s most important productivity regulators, but since the advent of technical nitrogen fixation (TNF), biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) input has nearly doubled, particularly in grass and arable lands covering over 13 million km2 of the Earth’s surface. This book explores how monocu…

Soil Spectral Inference with R

This book provides a didactic overview of techniques for inferring information from soil spectroscopic data, and the codes in the R programming language for performing such analyses. It is intended for students, researchers and practitioners looking to infer soil information from spectroscopic data, focusing mainly on, but not restricted to, the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. …

The Soils of Aotearoa New Zealand

This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system. Starting with an overview of the importance and distribution of New Zealand soils, it subsequently provides essential information on each of the 15 New Zealand soil orders in separate chapters. Each chapter, illustrated with diagrams and photographs in colo…

The Soils of Japan

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in Japan. First, it offers general descriptions of the country’s climate, geology, geomorphology, and land use, the history of the Japanese soil classification system and characteristics and genesis of major soil types follow. For each region – a geographic/administrative region of the country – there is…

Sclerotia Grains in Soils

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments. The chapters contain the results and discussions on the ecologic…

Geospatial Technologies for Crops and Soils

The sustainable development of the agriculture sector is the only option to meet the demands of increased and economically viable production in a changing climate. This means there is a need to introduce the latest technologies to enhance production, and also help policymakers make decisions for the future. Geospatial technologies & tools, such as remote sensing, geographical information system…

The Soils of Nevada

This book discusses Nevada in the context of the history of soil investigations; soil-forming factors; general soil regions; soil geomorphology; taxonomic structure of the soils; taxonomic soil regions; soil-forming processes; benchmark, endemic, rare, and endangered soils; and use of soils. With an average mean annual precipitation of 175 mm (7 in), Nevada is the driest state in the USA. Mo…

Saline and Alkaline Soils in Latin America

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of saline and alkaline soils in Latin America, known for having one of the most extensive surface of salt-affected soils in the world. It is organized along two main axes: soils and vegetation. The book discusses the occurrence of such soils in the region, focusing mainly in management strategies for their sustainable use, and it presents acco…

Seismic Hazards and Risk

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Some of the themes include seismic risk assessment, engineering seismology, wave propagation, remote sensing applications for geohazards,en…

Seismic Design and Performance

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Some of the themes include seismic design of deep & shallow foundations, soil structure interaction under dynamic loading, marine structure…

STABILITY ANALYSIS OF EARTH SLOPES

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0-422-23689-1

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ix, 102 p. 23 cm

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624.151 Hua s

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SOIL SCIENCE: The Soil as a Natural Resource, FOUR…

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4th

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978-0-632-06455-7

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ix, 384 p.; 24 cm.

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631.4 Whi p

Soil Dynamics

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. A strong emphasis is placed on connecting academic research and field practice, with many examples, case studies, best practices, and discu…

Soils, Land and Food: Managing the land during the twenty-first century

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0-521-82065-0

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x, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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631.4 Wil s

MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO SOIL, RHIZOSPHERE AND PLANT MICROORGANISM ANALYSIS

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978-1-84593-0622

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ix, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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631.51 Mol m

Bioengineering Case Studies: Sustainable Stream Bank and Slope Stabilization

"Bio-Stabilization Case Studies: Treatment and Performance Evaluation" 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. Bio-stabilization (or soil bioengineering) refers to the use of plant materials, primarily live cuttings, arranged in the ground in…

Evolution Mechanism on Structural Characteristics of Lead-Contaminated Soil i…

This book highlights the use of Solidification/Stabilization (S/S) to treat lead-contaminated soils, which are widely present in China. It reveals the evolutionary mechanism of the structural characteristics of Pb contaminated soil during the S/S process. In addition, the book systematically analyzes laws influencing the S/S process and its internal mechanisms, and develops new models for the s…

CROPS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

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1-56022-912-8

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421 p.; 22 cm

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632.1 Pri c

Improved Crop Quality by Nutrient Management

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0-7923-5850-3

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xiii, 310 p.; 25 cm.

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631.4 Imp i

Internal Erosion in Earthdams, Dikes and Levees

This book gathers the peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Working Group on Internal Erosion in Embankment Dams, Levees and Dikes, and their Foundations (EWG-IE), held in Milano, Italy, on 10-13 September 2018. The meeting served as a fertile platform for discussion, sharing sound knowledge and introducing novel ideas on issues related to soil interna…

Practical Farming : A Plain Book on Treatment of the Soil and Crop Production

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v, 394 p. ; 24 cm

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631.51 Mas p

SOILS SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED, FIFTH EDITION

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978-0-8138-1823-8

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viii, 246 p. ; 24 cm

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631.4 Eas s

SOIL Morphology, Genesis and Classification

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xx, 395 p.; ill.; 25 cm

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631.4 Fan s

Managing Soil Quality Challenges in Modern Agriculture

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0-85199-671-X

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vii, 163 p. ; 23 cm

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631.4 Man m

Environmental Soil Chemistry

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2

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0-12-656446-9

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xiii, 145 p. ; 23 cm

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631.41 Env e

Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems

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978-1-5744-583-1

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v, 163 p. ; 23 cm

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621.4 Bio b

SELECTED PAPERS IN SOIL FORMATION & CLASSIFICATION

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978-0-891-18896-4

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xii.432 hlm; 23 cm

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631.4 2 Sel s

Interactions between Soil Particles and Microorganisms : Impact on the Terres…

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ISBN/ISSN

0-471-60790-8

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xv, 265 p. ; 23 cm

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579.1757 Int i