| Description |
xxvii, 1476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Acid mine drainage / W.B. Galiano and J.M. Bigham -- Acid rain and N deposition / George F. Vance -- Acid sulfate soils, definition and classification / Delvin S. Fanning -- Acid sulfate soils, formation / Martin C. Rabenhorst, Delvin S. Fanning and Steven N. Burch -- Acid sulfate soils, management / Michael D. Melville and Ian White -- Acid sulfate soils, problems / Martin C. Rabenhorst and Delvin S. Fanning -- Aeration measurement / R.E. Sojka and H.D. Scott -- Aeration, tillage effects on / D.J. Horne and R.E. Sojka -- Aggregation / Sjoerd W. Duiker -- Aggregation, fragmentation, and structural stability measurement / M. Diaz-Zorita, J.H. Grove and E. Perfect -- Aggregation and organic matter / Cynthia A. Cambardella -- Alfisols / Rienk Miedema -- Allphanes / Jodi L. Johnson-Maynard -- Amendments/Amerliorants / David C. McKenzie -- Amorphous minerals / April L. Ulery -- Anaerobic processes / Paul A. McDaniel -- Andisols / Jon Chorover -- Animals and ecosystem functioning / Alan J. Franzluebbers -- Animals, microbial interactions and nutrient cycling / Lisa Cole and Richard Bardgett -- Ants / Walter G. Whitford -- Archaeology, soil and / J.E. Foss -- Arid soils / H. Curtis Monger -- Atterberg limits / Thomas Baumgartl -- Bacteria / Mary Ann Bruns -- Biological nitrogen fixation / Robert H. Burris -- Biological nitrogen fixation, forms and regulating factors / Ken E. Giller and Paul Mapfumo -- Biological nitrogen fixation, techniques to enhance / David F. Herridge -- Biota / Lev O. Karpachevsky and Mikhail L. Karpachevsky -- Boreal forest, soils of the / G. Mazhitova -- Boron and Molybdenum / Umesh C. Gupta and J.A. MacLeod -- Bulk density / Kwong Yin Chan |
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Calcification / Janis L. Boettinger -- Calcium / Zdenko Rengel -- Carbonates / Douglas W. Ming -- Chemical composition / Goro Uehara -- Chemisorption / N.J. Barrow -- Chlorine / Uzi Kafkafi and Guohua Xu -- Classification, Australia and New Zealand / R.F. Isbell and A.E. Hewitt -- Classification, Chinese / Zitong Gong -- Classification, French / Jean-Paul Legros -- Classification, need for / Stephen Nortcliff -- Classification, Russian / Maria Gerasimova -- Classification, South African / Jeffrey Hughes -- Classification systems, major / Lars Krogh -- Clay, charge properties of / Christopher J. Matocha -- Clay minerals / C.D. Barton and A.D. Karathanasis -- Clay minerals, weathering and alteration of / A.D. Karathanasis -- Climate / A.N. Gennadiyev and S.S. Chernyanskii -- Cobalt and iodine / Ronald G. McLaren -- Collembola / Steve P. Hopkin -- Color / Robin Thwaites -- Compaction / William E. Wolfe -- Computer modeling of water management / L.R. Ahuja and l. Ma -- Conservation tillage / Jack Cline and Robert Hendershot -- Consistence / Ray McBride -- Consolidation / Tarunjit Singh Butalia -- Controlled traffic / Randall C. Reeder -- Copper / Judith F. Pedler and David R. Parker -- Crop root response to soil temperature in temperate regions / Thomas C. Kaspar -- Crop rotation and farming systems: smallholder farming systems and agroforestry systems / S. Hauser, L. Norgrove and T. Nyobe -- Crop rotation and farming systems: temperate zones / M.R. Carter -- Crop rotation and farming systems; tropics and subtropics and swelling soils / D.M. Freebarin, G.D. Smith, R.D. Connolly and J.N. Tullberg -- Croplands / B.A. Stewart and Robin O'Malley |
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Debris flow / Jan-Yau Lu -- Degradation / Rosa M. Poch and Jose A. Martinez-Casasnovas -- Degradation, biological / Ibrahim Ortas -- Degradation, chemical / M. Rifat Derici -- Degradation, critical limits of soil properties and irreversible / Anthony R. Dexter and Michael A. Zoebisch -- Degradation, food aid needs in low-income countries and / Shahla Shapouri and Stacey Rose -- Degradation, food security on a global scale and / Michael A. Zoebisch and Eddy De Pauw -- Degradation, food security on a local/eco-regional scale and / Sara J. Scherr -- Degradation, food security, poverty and / Pierre Crosson -- Degradation, global assessment of / Selim Kapur and Erhan Akca -- Degradation, greenhouse effect and / Eddy De Pauw and Michael A. Zoebisch -- Degradation, Physical / Michael A. Zoebisch and Anthony R. Dexter -- Degradation, quality and / Rattan Lal -- Desertification / Paul T. Tueller -- Desertification, extent of / Victor R. Squires -- Desertification, greenhouse effect and / Sherwood B. Idso and Craig D. Idso -- Desertification impacts on landscapes, biodiversity, and human populations / David Mouat and Judith Lancaster -- Desertification, productivity and / Kris M. Havstad -- Desertification, reversing / David Tongway and John Ludwig -- Desertization / Henry Noel Le Houerou -- Diagnostic horizons / E.M. Bridges -- Diurnal freeze / Thaw: temperature and water distribution / Joseph L. Pikul, Jr. -- Drainage, aeration, and trafficability / Norman R. Fausey -- Drainage and anaerobiosis / Robert O. Evans |
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Earthworms / Patrick J. Bohlen -- Ecology and the cycling of carbon and nitrogen / Alan J. Franzleubbers -- Economics of soil management in developing countries / Stefano Pagiola -- Economics of soil management in the United States / Jeffrey W. Hopkins -- Enchytraeidae / Marie Jesus Iglesias Briones -- Entisols / L.T. West -- Erosion / Dennis C. Flanagan -- Erosion assessment / John Boardman -- Erosion control by agronomic practices / Glenn A. Weesies, David L. Scherta and William F. Kuenstler -- Erosion control, soil conservation and / Eric T. Craswell -- Erosion, controlling irrigation -induced / R.E. Sojka and D.L. Bjorneberg -- Erosion on disturbed lands / William J. Elliot -- Erosion and global change / Taolin Zhang and Xingxiang Wang -- Erosion impacts, On/off site impacts / Jerry l. Hatfield -- Erosion and landscape development, scale (space and time factors) / Jon Harbor -- Erosion and productivity, human life / Neroli Pedro Cogo and Renato levien -- Erosion and sedimentation control amendment techniques for / X.-C. (John) Zhang -- Erosion and sedimentation control, engineering techniques for / Jose Miguel Reichert and Elemar Antonino Cassol -- Erosion and sedimentation control, vegetative techniques for / Samson D. Angima -- Erosion, snowmelt (Winter erosion processes) / Donald K. McCool -- Erosion tolerance / soil loss tolerances / David L. Schertz and Mark A. Nearing -- Erosion by water / David Favis-Mortlock -- Erosion by water, empirical models / John M. Laflen -- Erosion by water, hybrid models / Jeffrey G. Arnold, Kevin W. King and Jimmy R. Williams -- Erosion by water, modeling / Calvin W. Rose -- Erosion by water, process-based modeling / M.A. Nearing -- Erosion and water quality / Andreas Klik -- Erosion by wind, climate change and / Alan Busacca and David Chandler -- Erosion by wind, control measures / Gary L. Tibke -- Erosion by wind-driven rain / G. Erpul, L.D. Norton and D. Gabriels -- Erosion by wind, effects on soil quality and productivity / John Leys -- Erosion by wind, field measurement of / Ted M Zobeck -- Erosion by wind, Global hot spots of / Andrew Warren -- Erosion by wind, Micrometeorology of / Giles Wiggs -- Erosion by wind, principles of / Larry D. Stetler -- Erosivity and erodibility / Peter I.A. Kinnell -- Evaporation / William P. Kustas -- Evolution: the role of the soil seed bank / Paul B. Cavers and David J. Susko |
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Fauna and microflora: macrofauna / Judy Tisdall -- Fertility, environmentally compatible management of / Bal Ram Singh -- Fertility evaluation systems / Ram C. Dalal and A. Subba Rao -- Fertility, low input and traditional methods of maintaining / Miguel Altieri -- Fertilizer application, Methods of / John Ryan -- Fertilizers, Leaching losses / P.G. Saffigna and I.R. Phillips -- Fertilizers, Mineral / B.L. Bumb and L.L. Hammond -- Fertilizers, Organic / Gary J. Gascho -- Fertilizers, Urban waste and sludges as / R.O. Maguire and J.T. Sims -- Flooding tolerance of crops / Tara T. VanToai, Getachew Boru and Jianhuan Zhang -- Fluid flow, Challenges modeling / John L. Nieber -- Forest ecosystems, Nutrient cycling in / Neil W. Foster and J.S. Bhatti -- Forest ecosystems, soils associated with major / Ken Van Rees -- Forest soils / N.B. Comerford -- Forest soil properties and site productivity / Paul A. Arp and Helmut H. Krause -- Fungi / Serita Frey -- Gas and vapor phase transport / Dennis E. Rolston -- Gelisols / James G. Bockheim -- Geology, soil and / K.R. Olson -- Global resources / Paul F. Reich and Hari Eswaran -- Global warming, carbon sequestration to mitigate / Sherwood B. Idso and Keith E. Idso -- Grassland, soils of the / D.D. Malo -- Greenhouse effect, World soils and / Rattan Lal -- Greenhouse gas fluxes, Measurement of / Oswald Van Cleemput and Pascal Boeckx -- Gully erosion / Fenli Zheng and Chi-hua Huang -- Gypsic soils / J. Herrero and J. Boixadera -- Hard setting soils / Richard S.B. Greene -- Health / R.F. Harris and D.E. Romig -- Heat flux / Thomas J. Sauer -- Heavy metals / M.J. McLaughlin -- History / Fred P. Miller -- History to early-mid 20th century / John P. Tandarich -- Human society, soil and / Rattan lal -- Hydraulic conductivity / Jacob H. Dane, March Jalbert and Jan W. Hopmans -- Hydrologic cycle, Soils role in the / Keith R.J. Smettem |
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Inceptisols / John M. Galbraith and Robert J. Engel -- Indigenous soil management / Karl Herweg -- Industrial waste / Warren Dick -- Infiltration properties / Walter J. Rawls -- Inorganic carbon analysis / L.R. Drees and C.T. Hallmark -- Inorganic carbon: climate and time / Lee Nordt -- Inorganic carbon; composition and formation / H. Curtis Monger and Larry P. Wilding -- Inorganic carbon and the global C cycle / William H. Schlesinger -- Inorganic carbon: global stocks / L.P. Wilding, L.C. Nordt and J.M. Kimble -- Inorganic carbon: Land use impacts / Donald l. Suarez -- Inorganic carbon modeling / Leslie McFadden and Ronald Amundson -- Insect survival, effect of subzero temperature on / M.M. Ellsbury -- Ion exchange / Bryon W. Tache -- Irrigation / Jack Keller -- Irrigation efficiency / Terry A. Howell -- Irrigation erosion / D.L. Bjorneberg and R.E. Sojka -- Irrigation: an historical perspective / R.E. Sojka, D.L. Bjorneberg and J.A. Entry -- Irrigation and soil salinity / J.D. Rhoades -- Land capability analysis / Michael J. Singer -- Land capability classification / Thomas E. Fenton -- Land evaluation / J. Herbert Huddleston -- Landforms / C.G. Olson -- Land restoration, principles of / Richard W. Bell -- Land use, historic / J. Douglas Helms, Hari Eswaran and Paul Reich -- Land use planning, GIS in / Egide Nizeyimana and Jacob Opadeyi -- Landscape / George Hall -- Landscape relationships / Timothy A. Quine -- Landslide and landcreep / Hau-Jung Shieh and Jau-Yau Lu -- Leaching and illuviation / L.E. Moody -- Liming and lime materials / M.K. Conyers |
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Macroporosity / Daniel Gimenez -- Magnesium / N.S. Bolan, K. Arulmozhiselvan and P. Paramasivam -- Manure, compost and biosolids / Bahman Eghball and Kenneth A. Barbarick -- Metal-Clay interactions / Dean Hesterberg -- Methane emissions in rice, mitigation options for / Kazuyuki Yagi -- Methane emissions from rice paddies, Factors affecting / Ronald L. Sass -- Methane in flooded rice / Ronald L. Sass -- Mineland reclamation and soil carbon sequestration / Basant A. Akala and Rattan Lal -- Minerals, Primary / Nikolaos I. Barbayiannis and Vissarion Z. Keramidas -- Minerals, secondary / Deborah A. Soukup -- Mites / Hans Klompen -- Modern civilization, Soils and / K.R. Olson -- Mulch farming / Rattan Lal -- Nematodes / Christien H. Ettema -- Nitrogen and its transformations / Oswald Van Cleemput and Pascal Boeckx -- Nitrous oxide from agricultural soils, Emission of / J.R. Freney -- Nitrous oxide emissions: sources, sink, and strategies / Katsu Minami -- No Till / Paul W. Unger -- Nonpoint source pollution / Ravendra Naidu, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Peter Dillon, Rai Kokana, Ray Corell and Walter Wenzel -- Nutrient deficiency and toxicity symptoms / Noel J. Grundon -- Nutrient diffusion, bioavailability and plant uptake / Niels Erik Nielsen -- Nutrient interactions in soil-plant systems / F.S. Zhang, J. Shen and Y-G. Zhu -- Nutrient-water interactions / Ardell D. Halvorson -- Organic matter accumulations / Sylvie A. Quideau -- Organic matter and global C cycle / Keith Paustian -- Organic matter, global distribution in world ecosystems / W.M. Post -- Organic matter in the landscape / H.H. Janzen, B.H. Ellert and D.W. Anderson -- Organic matter management / R. Cesar Izaurralde and Carlos C. Cerri -- Organic matter modeling / Pete Smith -- Organic matter and nutrient dynamics / Charles W. Rice -- Organic matter structure and characterization / Georg Guggenberger -- Organic matter turnover / J. Six and J.D. Jastrow -- Organisms and soil food webs / David C. Coleman -- Oxisols / S.W. Buol |
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Particle density / Keith R.J. Smettem -- Particle packing / S.C. Gupta and D.P. Thoma -- Particle shape / Brian M. Schafer -- Pedogenic silica accumulation / Katherine J. Kendrick -- Pedological modeling / Ronald Amundson -- Pedotransfer functions / J.H.M. Wosten -- Permafrost: soil temperature/special problems / Douglas L. Kane and Julia Boike -- Petrocalcic horizons, Soils with / Alain Ruellan -- pH / Grant W. Thomas -- Planet and human society, soil as a heritage of / Fred P. Miller -- Plant available water / Argyrios Gerakis and Joe T. Ritchie -- Plant nutrient availability, intensity, quantity and buffer power / Ram C. Dalal -- Plant nutrient sufficiency and requirements / K.L. Sahrawat -- Plastic properties / Gunnar Kirchhof -- Plinthite and petroplinthite / Eswaran Padmanabhan and Hari Eswaran -- Point source pollution / Ravendra Naidu, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Peter Dillon, Rai Kokkana, Ray Correll and Walter Wenzel -- Polar regions, soils of the / Charles Tarnocai and Iain Campbell -- Pollutants, Persistent organic / Mark Radosevich and E. Danielle Rhine -- Pollution / Zulkuf Kaya -- Porosity and pore size distribution / Keith C. Cameron and Graeme D. Buchan -- Potassium / Philippe Hinsinger -- Precision agriculture, engineering aspects / Joel T. Walker, Reza Ehsani and Matthew O. Sullivan -- Precision agriculture, nutrient cycling and / Robert J. Lascano -- Productivity, influence of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on / Douglas G. Maynard -- Properties and productivity of soil: tillage erosion / Tom E. Schumacher -- Protozoa / B.S. Griffiths |
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Quality / E.G. Gregorich -- Quality, critical limits and standardization / M.R. Carter -- Quality and erosion / Craig Ditzler -- Quality indicators / Graham Sparling -- Quality and production of carbon and nitrogen gases / Philippe Rochette, Renald Lemke and Sean MGinn -- Quality and productivity / M.J. Beare -- Quality, soil and water / T.M. Nissen and M.M. Wander -- Quality and sustainable agriculture / John W. Doran and E.G. Gregorich -- Radionuclides / Philip M. Jardine -- Redox phenomena / Bruce R. James -- Rehabilitation, indicators and monitoring of / David Jasper -- Rehabilitation of minerals processing residue (tailings) / L.R. Hossner and H. Shahandeh -- Rehabilitation after open cut mines / Douglas J. Dollhopf -- Rehabilitation of waste rock and overburden dumps / M.V. Gey, R.D. O'Brien and A.J. Mills -- Remote sensing and GIS integration / Egide Nizeyimana -- Remote sensing of soil moisture, passive and active microwave / E.D. Warner and G.W. Petersen -- Rendzina / Thomas E. Fenton -- Resilience / M.M. Tenywa, J.G.M. Majaliwa and A. Lufafa -- Resilience, land use, soil management, and / S.J. Park -- Resilience and quality / Rattan Lal -- Resilience and restoration / Frits W.T. Penning de Vries and Eric T. Craswell -- Resources, agricultural productivity, and food security / Keith Wiebe -- Restoration ecology / Richard Hobbs -- Restoration, success and completion criteria for / S.C. Ward -- Revegetation of landfill sites / G.Y.S. Chan and M.H. Wong -- Rocks / Vsevolod V. Dobrovolsky -- Satellite mapping / Bruce E. Frzier -- Scaling effects / Yakov A. Pachepsky, Walter J. Rawls and John W. Crawford -- Seepage / Patricia M. Gallaher -- Selenium / Gunnar Gissel-Nielsen -- Serpentinitic soils / R. Burt and M.A. Wilson -- Sesquioxides / Joey N. Shaw and Larry T. West -- Shrinkage / D. McGarry and D.F. Yule -- Silicon and sodium / Jian Feng Ma -- Slaking, dispersion, and crust formation / Hwat Bing So |
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Sodic soils / Pichu Rengasamy -- Sodic soils, formation, and global distribution of / Brian Murphy -- Sodic soils, irrigation farming and / David Burrow -- Sodic soils, processes, characteristics and classification of / Pichu Rengasamy -- Sodic soils, reclamation of / G.J. Flerchinger -- Soil water content / T.J. Jackson -- Soluble salts, translocation and accumulation of / Jimmie L. Richardson -- Spectral mixtures, soil-plant / A.R. Huete -- Spodosols / Delbert Mokma -- Structure / Eileen J. Kladivko --- Structure, earthworms, and / M.J. Shipitalo -- Structure, managing below ground / K.A. Olsson and B. Cockroft -- Structure, pedological concepts and water flow / Clinton C. Truman and Donald P. Franzmeier -- Structure, plant establishment and / D.L. Karlen -- Structure, roots and / Alvin J.M. Smucker -- Subirrigation / Norman R. Fausey -- Sulfate and sulfide minerals / Delvin S. Fanning and Steven N. Burch -- Sulfur / Silvia Haneklaus, Elke Bloem and Ewald Schnug -- Surface area, specific / L.A. Graham Aylmore -- Surface management / Kwong Yin Chan -- Sustainability and integrated nutrient management / G.S. Saroa and Rattan Lal -- Temperature measurement / Kevin McInnes -- Termites / David E. Bignell and John A. Holt -- Terrace relationships : tillage erosion / Seth M. Dabney -- Testing / Yash P. Kalra and J.S. Bhatti -- Texture / Harold R. Geering and Hwat Bing So -- Thermal environment of seasonally frozen soil affected by crop and soil management / Brenton S. Sharratt |
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Tillage erosion, description and process of / Michael J. Lindstrom -- Tillage erosion, measurement techniques of / David A. Lobb -- Tillage erosion, Relationship to water erosion / Gerard Govers -- Tillage and gas exchange / D.C. Reicosky -- Time and space, Soils in / Neil E. Smeck and C. Lee Burras -- Tropics and sub-tropics, soils of the / Hari Eswaran and Eswaran Padmanabhan -- Turbations / Robert C. Graham -- Turfgrass, protection of soil and water with / James A. Murphy and Stephanie L. Murphy -- 21st Century, role of soils in the / Richard W. Arnold -- Ultisols / Joey N. Shaw -- Urban soils and construction sites / W. Burghardt -- Value to humans / W.E. Larson -- Vertisols / Wouter A. Blokhuis -- Volatilization of ammonia from agricultural soils / P.G. Saffigna and J.R. Freney -- Water conservation in soil / Paul W. Unger -- Water harvesting / Gary Frasier -- Water relations in frozen soil / John M. Baker -- Water retention in soil / S.C. Gupta and D. Wang -- Water use efficiency, enhancing / David C. Nielsen -- Watershed approach / Timothy R. Green and Jan van Schilfgaarde -- Weathering / Dominique righi -- Wetlands and biodiversity / Jean-Claude Lefeuvre and Virginie Bouchard -- Wetland and carbon sequestration / Virginie Bouchard and Matthew Cochran -- Wetland conservation, Policy for / Clayton Rubec -- Wetland, Economic value of / Gayatri Acharya -- Wetlands and methane emission / Anna Joabsson and Torben Rojle Christensen -- Wetlands sedimentation and ecological engineering / Timothy C. Granata and Jay Martin -- Wetlands / Ralph W. Tiner -- Windblown dust / Dale Gillette -- World reference base for soil resources / Jozef Deckers, Paul Driessen, Freddy Nachtergaele and Otto Spaargaren |
| Summary |
Provides complete information on chemistry, analysis, and evaluation of soils and geography and focuses on agriculture development in the third world, particularly through research on sustainable management of natural resources, soil productivity and environmental quality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Soils -- Encyclopedias.
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Soil science -- Encyclopedias.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Author |
Lal, R.
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| LC no. |
2001522633 |
| ISBN |
082470634X acid free paper |
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