Sustainable Soil Management

ISBN-13: 9781926895215 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 246 str.

Deidre Rooney

Opis

Soil is one of our most precious natural resources, providing a range of ecosystem functions and services, while supporting huge biodiversity. In this new book, the focus is on soil management for agriculture and the environment. Changing land-use practices and the role of soil biological diversity has been a major focus of soil science research over the past couple of decades, a trend that is likely to continue. The information presented in this book point to a holistic approach to soil management. The first part of the book looks at the land use effects on soil carbon storage, which considers how a range of factors include carbon sequestration in soils. The second part of the book presents research investigating the interactions between soil properties, plant species, and the soil biota.Soil Science Management highlights some of the most important contemporary issues concerning land management, nutrient cycling, and soil carbon and leads to more holistic approaches to sustainable land management in the future.

Spis treści

Land Use Effects on Soil Carbon Storage: Carbon Storage in Soils of Southeastern Nigeria Under Different Management Practices. Simulated Responses of Soil Organic Carbon Stock to Tillage Management Scenarios in the Northwest Great Plains. . Altitudinal Variation in Soil Organic Carbon Stock in Coniferous Subtropical and Broadleaf Temperate Forests in Garhwal Himalaya. Dynamics of Carbon Pools in Post-Agrogenic Sandy Soils of Southern Taiga of Russia. Soil Biotic Interactions: Role of Earthworms in Tropics with Emphasis on Indian Ecosystems. Nutrient Status of Vermicompost of Urban Green Waste Processed by Three Earthworm Species—Eisenia fetida, Eudrilus eugeniae, and Perionyx excavates. The Effect of Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris L.) Population Density and Soil Water Content Interactions on Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Soils. Responses of Ammonia-Oxidising Bacterial Communities to Nitrogen, Lime, and Plant Species in Upland Grassland Soil. Can We Predict How Earthworm Effects on Plant Growth Vary with Soil Properties? Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems.

O autorze

Dr. Deirdre Rooney is currently employed in the agriculture department at Askham Bryan College, York (UK) as a lecturer in environmental and biological sciences. She graduated from University College Dublin with a BSc (Honours) in botany and subsequently completed a PhD in the field of microbial ecology, investigating soil nitrogen dynamics in grassland ecosystems. She has since carried out further research in soil microbiology, with a specific focus on plant-soil interactions, including those of soil bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi.