Soil management

Part 1 of ebook "GIS applications in agriculture" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 1 - Application of GIS to integrated pest management on U.S. fish and wildlife service land; Chapter 2 - Nitrogen management in sugar beet using remote sensing and GIS; Chapter 3 - Using Historical management to reduce soil sampling errors; Chapter 4 - Developing productivity zones from multiple years of yield monitor data; Chapter 5 - Site-specific weed management in growers’ fields, predictions from hand-drawn maps;...

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Part 2 of ebook "GIS applications in agriculture" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 6 - Map quality assessment for site-specific fertility management; Chapter 7 - Gleaning more information from yield data; Chapter 8 - Soil salinity mapping using ArcGIS; Chapter 9 - Using GIS and on-the-go soil strength sensing technology for variable-depth tillage assessment; Chapter 10 - Collocating multiple self-generated data layers;...

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This study aimed to investigate the levels of contamination of potentially toxic trace elements in the soil of Dong Nai Province, Vietnam. To achieve this, the Instrument Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) method was employed to measure the concentrations of five potentially toxic trace elements, including manganese (Mn), arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), antimony (Sb), and zinc (Zn), across 30 soil samples collected from the region.

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Ebook "Fundamentals of soil science (8th edition)" revision of a bestselling text shows that soil is three-dimensional and dynamic. This concept is developed in the first two chapters and is built on throughout the book. Chapters 3 through 7 explore soil physical properties and water, with expanded coverage of tillage and traffic and an increased emphasis on water and wind erosion processes. Chapters 8 through 11 discuss the biological aspects of soils as well as their mineralogical and chemical properties.

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Ebook "Land degradation and desertification: Assessment, mitigation and remediation" reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and mitigation in 36 countries around the world. It includes background papers with continental and international perspectives dealing with land degradation and desertification studies. The book assembles various topics of interest for a large audience.

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Soil water in the coastal zones is more vulnerable to salinization. Soil-water vulnerability assessment is an effective tool for soil-water management. This study used the DRASTIC model, which is based on seven factors viz: Depth to soil water, recharge, soil-water bearing layer, soil media, topography, impact of root zone, and hydraulic conductivity to evaluate soil-water salinization potentiality of Ben Tre province.

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Ebook "Agronomic handbook: Management of crops, soils, and their fertility" covers both major agronomic fields. Containing essential data and information on the culture of the world's major agronomic grain, oil, fiber, and sugar crops grown on a wide range of soil types, Agronomic Handbook: Management of Crops, Soils, and Their Fertility serves as a practical reference on the management of crops and soils from planting to harvest.

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Ebook "Biointensive integrated pest management in horticultural ecosystems" deals with the most recent biointensive integrated approaches for pest management utilizing components such as bioagents [predators, parasitoids and pathogens (bacteria, fungi, viruses)], botanicals (biofumigation, oil cakes, FYM, compost, crop residues, green manuring and other organic amendments), arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, physical methods (hot water treatment of planting material, soil solarization), cultural methods (crop rotation, summer ploughing, fallowing, intercropping, pruning, mulching, spacing, plant...

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Ebook "Organic farming, prototype for sustainable agricultures" gathers 25 papers introduced in a first chapter. The first section investigates OF&F production processes and its capacity to benefit from the systems functioning to achieve higher self-sufficiency. The second one proposes an overview of organic performances providing commodities and public goods. The third one focuses on organics development pathways within agri-food systems and territories.

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Ebook "Biocontrol of lepidopteran pests: Use of soil microbes and their metabolites (Soil biology, Volume 43)" describes the various applications of entomopathogenic soil microorganisms in the management and control of the devastating lepidopteran pest. An introduction describes the insecticidal properties of viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes and their metabolites, as well as their applications in the context of crop improvement.

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Ebook "Conservation agriculture" is a ready reference on conservation agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. The book describes various elements of conservation agriculture; highlights the associated breeding and modeling efforts; analyses the experiences and challenges in conservation agriculture in different regions of the world; and proposes some pragmatic options and new areas of research in this very important area of agriculture.

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Ebook "Forest hydrology and catchment management: An Australian perspective" focusses on the issues of small streams, including catchment definition, slope, hydrograph formation, water quality measurement, and annual water yield. The world-wide management issues of sustaining riparian forests are examined, using the River Murray forests as an example. Finally a large amount of information is drawn together to examine the management of forested catchments for water supplies.

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Ebook "Community seed production sustainability in rice–wheat farming" analyzes the sustainability of community seed production under a rice–wheat farming system from microeconomic perspectives, considering how seed producers benefit from community seed production and how those benefits continue into the future. Seed producers’ performance in resource management, governance and marketing strategies indicates current benefits, whereas soil conservation and risk-management practices provide the basis for future benefits.

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Ebook "Composting for sustainable agriculture (Sustainable development and biodiversity, Volume 3)" will comprised various chapters on the role of beneficial bacteria in the composting process. The application is depicted to achieve the attainable productivity besides, in disease management and suppressiveness of organisms of phytopathogenic in nature. Significance of the compost elicits certain responses e.g. soil reclamation, soil fertility, soil health and disease management exhibit due to quality compost amendment in soil.

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Ebook "The mycota: A comprehensive treatise on fungi as experimental systems for basic and applied research (Industrial applications X, 2nd edition)" deal with the mechanisms of interactions between fungi and plants and consider pathogenic as well as mutualistic associations. Nobody involved in the manipulation of plant populations can afford to ignore the fungi, so pervasive and important are fungus/plant interactions for the well-being of plant communities, both managed and natural.

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Ebook "Advances in plant and animal boron nutrition: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on all Aspects of Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition" eviews all aspects of boron research in recent years and is based on the Third International Symposium on all Aspects of Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition which was held in Wuhan, P.R. China. This book is aimed at scientists, Masters or PhD students focusing on boron research field. Furthermore, it provides managers involved in agricultural production with an important reference to recent developments in boron nutrition research.

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Ebook "Carbon and nitrogen in the terrestrial environment" provides an integrated and wholesome view of the C and N cycling and interrelationships between different aspects in terrestrial ecosystems. Highlights issues related to C and N management in different ecosystems and their implications for the environment and global climate change, and the approaches to mitigate emission of greenhouse gases.

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Ebook "Organic farming, pest control and remediation of soil pollutants" gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

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Ebook "Plant adaptation and phytoremediation" featuring an international set of authors, is a key reference for researchers and environmental managers, as well as anyone involved in the mining industry or landscape remediation. The comprehensive coverage of current approaches to phytoremediation begins by examining the problem. It looks at natural and human-induced toxins, and their effects on natural vegetation as well as agricultural crops.

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Ebook "Precision crop protection - The challenge and use of heterogeneity" provides extensive information on the state-of-the-art of research on precision crop protection and recent developments in site-specific application technologies for the management of weeds, arthropod pests, pathogens and nematodes. It gives the reader an up-to-date and in-depth review of both basic and applied research developments.

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