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Soil organic matter (SOM) is a highly reactive constituent of the soil matrix. This volume of Advances in Soil Sciences explains pedological processes caused by increases in SOM content of depleted and degraded soils and demonstrates the link between soil organic matter stock and provisioning critical ecosystem services for nature and humans.

Soil organic matter is the primary determinant of soil functionality and is a source of ecosystem services critical to human well-being and nature conservancy. This volume of Advances in Soil Sciences discusses how conservation through restorative land use can increase carbon stock and soil health.

Faced with challenges of resource scarcity and environmental degradation, it is important to adopt innovative farming systems that maximize resource efficiency while protecting the environment. This volume focuses on principles and applications of soil-specific farming, providing information on rapidly evolving agricultural technologies. The boo

Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient, but global population growth has dramatically reduced the availability of phosphorus fertilizer resources. Despite this scarcity, there remain numerous problems associated with the excessive and inappropriate use of phosphorus leading to non-point source pollution and eutrophication of natural waters. I

Urban soil comprises geological material drastically disturbed by anthropogenic activities. Urban soils play a role in the production of food, aesthetics of residential areas, and pollutant dynamics. Properties of urban soils are normally not favorable to plant growth, are contaminated by heavy metals, and are compacted and sealed.

In natural ecosystems, nitrogen (N) is in short supply and an important control of numerous ecosystem functions. Understanding the N cycle is imperative to improve capacity to meet global N demands while reducing environmental impacts. The natural N cycle has been disturbed by the industrial process of fertilizer production resulting in climate

This book addresses global issues through soil management and outlines strategies of advancing sustainable development goals of the United Nations. It focuses on soil restoration as a strategy to mitigate climate change, the soil-food-water-climate nexus, soil and ecosystem services, as well as soil and carbon farming.

This volume discusses the relation between soil health and human health in relation to plant, animal, and human nutrition; pest and pathogen infection from soil; deficiency of micronutrients; toxicity of heavy metals; geophagy, and other factors.

This volume discusses the relation between soil health and human health in relation to plant, animal, and human nutrition; pest and pathogen infection from soil; deficiency of micronutrients; toxicity of heavy metals; geophagy, and other factors.

This book presents the concept of interacting processes in soil science. It attempts to develop a presentation of several areas of soil science in which one must consider interaction of processes in order to further understand the complexity of the soil system.

The most complete, nonpartisan source of reference on this hot agronomic topic available today, this book brings together a diverse group of papers and data to resolve the debate on the effects of soil erosion on carbon and atmospheric CO2.

Highlighting a tenfold increase in global fertilizer consumption between 2002 and 2016, the book explains the effects on the quality of soil, water, air and biota from overuse of chemical fertilizers.This book presents methods for enhancing the efficiency of fertilizer that can reduce the environmental footprint.

Bringing together international experts to explore land misuse and mismanagement practices that compromise soil quality around the globe, this volume assesses farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, examines land degradation and soil management in Brazil and China, and provides a comparison of systems in India and Ohio. It also addresses how cultural and spiritual beliefs may contribute to problems with soil quality. The book highlights the urgency of the issue and details achievable methods for improvement.

This work discusses important issues confronting soil management in current global conditions and examines the increasingly harmful impact of the greenhouse effect on various ecosystems. Policy issues and considerations are also reviewed.

This book addresses global issues through soil management and outlines strategies of advancing sustainable development goals of the United Nations. It focuses on soil restoration as a strategy to mitigate climate change, the soil-food-water-climate nexus, soil and ecosystem services, as well as soil and carbon farming.

Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient, but global population growth has dramatically reduced the availability of phosphorus fertilizer resources. Despite this scarcity, there remain numerous problems associated with the excessive and inappropriate use of phosphorus leading to non-point source pollution and eutrophication of natural waters. Identifying appropriate systems for managing soil phosphorus and reducing the risks of eutrophication are needed to minimize the environmental risks. This book focuses on the availability and recycling of phosphorus; regulatory and policy issues of sustainable phosphorus use; and water quality management in agroecosystems pertaining to phosphorus.

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

Faced with challenges of resource scarcity and environmental degradation, it is important to adopt innovative farming systems that maximize resource efficiency while protecting the environment. This volume focuses on principles and applications of soil-specific farming, providing information on rapidly evolving agricultural technologies. The book specifically addresses assessments of soil variability and application of modern innovations to enhance use efficiency of fertilizers, irrigation, tillage and pesticides through targeted management of soils and crops. Support tools are utilized to target site-specific constraints.

We must not only learn how to use the soil to furnish our immediate needs, but also ensure that the ability of the soil to sustain food production in the future is unimpaired. This, Advances in Soil Sciences, presents clear and concise reviews in all areas of soil science for everyone interested in this basic resource and man's influence on it.

Focuses on coupled processes in soil. This work covers topics including the effects of inorganic salts upon water flow, modeling of sorption, transport and transformation of organic solutes, and the effects of microorganisms on silicate clay minerals. It is suitable for researchers and students in soil science and soil and water engineering.

This will require increased efforts of both the developed and developing countries. Much of the technology that is so successful for crop production in the developed countries cannot be utilized directly in the developing countries.

This series, Advances in Soil Science, presents clear and concise reviews in all areas of soil science for everyone interested in this basic resource and man's influence on it.

One of the most basic resources, perhaps the most basic of all, for meeting these needs is the soil. We must not only learn how to use the soil to furnish our immediate needs, but also ensure that the ability of the soil to sustain food production in the future is unimpaired.

Several countries that were food importers just a few years ago are food exporters today. Although the world as a whole has surplus food supplies, there are millions of people without adequate food to exist, and there are additional millions who have a bare subsistence diet at best.

This will require increased efforts of both the developed and developing countries. Much of the technology that is so successful for crop production in the developed countries cannot be utilized directly in the developing countries.

From the beginning of agriculture until about 1950, increased food production came almost entirely from expanding the cropland base. The world's irrigated land in 1950 totaled 94 million hectares but increased to 140 million by 1960, to 198 million by 1970, and to 271 million hectares in 1985.