Soil Science, Sedimentology

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on decision support systems (DSS) in agriculture.The first chapter provides a review...

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on biodiversity management practices in agriculture.The first chapter reviews biodiv...

Soils are known to be an enormous reservoir of carbon and represent an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle. However, this reservo...

Microplastics in Agriculture and Food Science: Methods for Identification and Remediation presents fundamental insights into the sources of micropl...

Soil invertebrates make up diverse communities living in soil pores and on the soil surface, digging burrows and tunnels, processing organic matter...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

This open access book presents the state of the art in research on the characteristics of past earthquakes. It presents an overview of contemporary...

This book presents the accumulated data and current state of geological knowledge on Chinas main shale gas fields. It addresses a broad range of to...

This edited book addresses various aspects of sustainable land management, including existing policy norms and indigenous knowledge. It focuses on ...

This work is intended for advanced readers interested in methods of sustainable land management - the prevention and control of land degradation. I...

Anthropogenic activity has clearly altered the N cycle contributing (among other factors) to climate change. This book aims to provide new biotechn...

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions...

The aim of this Ph.D. was to develop a technology for the remediation of seleniferous soils/sediments and to explore microbial reduction of seleniu...

Nowadays, demands on modern civil engineering structures require not only safe technical solutions, but also additional approaches, involving ecolo...

The manufacture of plastic as well as its indiscriminate disposal and destruction by incineration pollutes atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic ec...

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input whil...

Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earths forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher leve...

Soil Biology is a state-of-the art review focusing on the linkage between biological processes that occur in the soil and their impact on soil qual...

The term soil health refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants, animals, and humans while also impro...

This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants, focusing on problems and their management by select...

Pesticide Interactions in Crop Production: Beneficial and Deleterious Effects evaluates the effects of pesticides on plants by exploring the physic...

Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline. Unfortunately, wides...

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes o...

The book is intended for practicing engineers in the oil industry, researchers, and graduate students interested in designing and simulating offsho...

Aeroponics: Growing Vertical covers aspects of the emerging technology, aeroponics, which is a sister to hydroponics, involving state-of-the-art co...

A comprehensive and practical overview of the state of the science, Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Inte...

Contaminants and Clean Technologies provides valuable information on environmental contaminants such as industrial pollutants, micropollutants, pes...

The citrus industry is one of the world's most important fruit production industries, but global climate change, pests, diseases, and improper hand...

Trace Elements in Abiotic and Biotic Environments helps readers understand the fundamental principles and phenomena that control the transfer of tr...

The book offers systematic dynamic analysis of soils and their engineering applications, including machine foundations, and aims to develop a clear...

Larger amounts of nutritious food are required to feed the growing world population, which is a great challenge due to water shortages and reduced ...

This book will introduce new physical approaches (include fractional derivative models, continuous time random walk methods and Hausdorff derivati...

Provides the first comprehensive review of the current state of the science on tills It is critical that glacial scientists continue to refine thei...

Digital Terrain Analysis, Third Edition, synthesizes the knowledge on methods and applications of digital terrain analysis and geomorphometry in th...

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

This book discusses indigenous practices and obstacles faced by farmers conducting shifting cultivation (jhum) in North-east India and suggests met...

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils. However, management ...

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

As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and ...

Infrared spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between infrared radiation and matter. Its application to the characterization of archaeologi...

Infrared spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between infrared radiation and matter. Its application to the characterization of archaeologi...

This updated second edition textbook explains the different technologies of agronomy to achieve a more sustainable agriculture, for undergraduate a...