Handbook of Soil Sciences: Resource Management and Environmental Impacts, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781439803073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 830 str.

Huang, Pan Ming

Opis

This volume contains definitive descriptions of each major area in soil science; including its fundamental principles, appropriate methods to measure each property, and guidelines for the interpretation of the data for various applications. Several major subdisciplines of soil science are discussed using an abundance of tables.

Recenzje

"[The first volume] is a hefty tome separated into five sections: soil physics, chemistry, mineralogy, biology and biochemistry, and pedology. … Each chapter is a rich resource for choosing and discovering methodologies and understanding developments in soil science, and provides a database for equations needed in soil science. Non-soil scientists should not dismiss these handbooks since many chapters cross disciplines. … The list of authors for each chapter is truly impressive, with contributions from many eminent soil scientists. … The second volume contains a further 33 chapters broken into four parts: soil physical, chemical and biological interfacial interactions; soil fertility and plant nutrition; interdisciplinary aspects of soil science; and soil databases. Again, the calibre of the authors is exemplary and the comments made for the first volume apply equally to the second. … this is now my first ‘go to’ text for soil science and will be invaluable as a resource. I would highly recommend that libraries update their first edition and with these two new volumes."
—TJ Clough, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2013, Vol. 56, No. 1, 91-92.

Spis treści

Soil Physical, Chemical, and Biological Interfacial Interactions. Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition. Interdisciplinary Aspects of Soil Science. Soil Databases. Index.