Download or read book Microbiological Methods for Assessing Soil Quality written by Jaap Bloem and published by CABI. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a selection of microbiological methods which are applicable or already applied in regional or national soil quality monitoring programmes. An overview is given of approaches to monitoring, evaluating and managing soil quality (Part I), followed by a selection of methods which are described in sufficient detail to use the book as a practical handbook in the laboratory (Part II). Finally a census is given of the main methods used in over 30 European laboratories. The book is aimed at different levels: soil scientists, technicians, policy makers, land managers and students.

Download or read book Manual for Soil Analysis Monitoring and Assessing Soil Bioremediation written by Rosa Margesin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents detailed descriptions of methods for evaluating, monitoring and assessing bioremediation of soil contaminated with organic pollutants or heavy metals. Traditional soil investigation techniques, including chemical, physical and microbiological methods, are complemented by the most suitable modern methods, including bioreporter technology, immunological, ecotoxicological and molecular assays. Step-by-step procedures, lists of required equipment and reagents and notes on evaluation and quality control allow immediate application

Download or read book Methods for Assessing Soil Quality written by John Walsh Doran and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods for Assessing Soil Quality builds on two previous publications, Defining Soil Quality for a Sustainable Environment (SSSA spec. publ. 35, 1994) and Soil Health and Sustainability (Doran et al. 1996).

Download or read book North American Agroforestry written by Harold E. Gene Garrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Agroforestry Explore the many benefits of alternative land-use systems with this incisive resource Humanity has become a victim of its own success. While we’ve managed to meet the needs—to one extent or another—of a large portion of the human population, we’ve often done so by ignoring the health of the natural environment we rely on to sustain our planet. And by deteriorating the quality of our air, water, and land, we’ve put into motion consequences we’ll be dealing with for generations. In the newly revised Third Edition of North American Agroforestry, an expert team of researchers delivers an authoritative and insightful exploration of an alternative land-use system that exploits the positive interactions between trees and crops when they are grown together and bridges the gap between production agriculture and natural resource management. This latest edition includes new material on urban food forests, as well as the air and soil quality benefits of agroforestry, agroforestry’s relevance in the Mexican context, and agroforestry training and education. The book also offers: A thorough introduction to the development of agroforestry as an integrated land use management strategy Comprehensive explorations of agroforestry nomenclature, concepts, and practices, as well as an agroecological foundation for temperate agroforestry Practical discussions of tree-crop interactions in temperate agroforestry, including in systems such as windbreak practices, silvopasture practices, and alley cropping practices In-depth examinations of vegetative environmental buffers for air and water quality benefits, agroforestry for wildlife habitat, agroforestry at the landscape level, and the impact of agroforestry on soil health Perfect for environmental scientists, natural resource professionals and ecologists, North American Agroforestry will also earn a place in the libraries of students and scholars of agricultural sciences interested in the potential benefits of agroforestry.

Download or read book Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis Soil Health series Volume 2 written by Douglas L. Karlen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis Analyzing, comparing, and understanding soil health data The maintenance of healthy soil resources is instrumental to the success of an array of global efforts and initiatives. Whether they are working to combat food shortages, conserve our ecosystems, or mitigate the impact of climate change, researchers and agriculturalists the world over must be able to correctly examine and understand the complex nature of this essential resource. These new volumes have been designed to meet this need, addressing the many dimensions of soil health analysis in chapters that are concise, accessible and applicable to the tasks at hand. Soil Health, Volume Two: Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis provides explanations of the best practices by which one may arrive at valuable, comparable data and incisive conclusions, and covers topics including: Sampling considerations and field evaluations Assessment and interpretation of soil-test biological activity Macro- and micronutrients in soil quality and health PLFA and EL-FAME indicators Offering a practical guide to collecting and understanding soil health data, this volume will be of great interest to all those working in agriculture, private sector businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic-, state-, and federal-research projects, as well as state and federal soil conservation, water quality and other environmental programs.

Download or read book Methods of Soil Analysis Part 3 written by D. L. Sparks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough presentation of analytical methods for characterizing soil chemical properties and processes, Methods, Part 3 includes chapters on Fourier transform infrared, Raman, electron spin resonance, x-ray photoelectron, and x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopies, and more.

Download or read book Soil Quality Laboratory Methods for Determination of Microbial Soil Respiration written by British Standards Institute Staff and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soils, Quality, Soil testing, Laboratory testing, Microbiological analysis, Biological analysis and testing, Oxygen, Carbon dioxide, Microorganisms

Download or read book Soil Quality Test Kit Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Microorganisms as Indicators of Soil Health written by Mette Neiendam Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biology and Biotechnology of Patagonian Microorganisms written by Nelda Lila Olivera and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Argentinean Patagonia offers a great diversity of scarcely explored environments suitable for the bioprospection of biotechnological relevant microorganisms. This book provides readers with a concise and clearly illustrated treatment of outstanding topics of Patagonian microbiology and biotechnology. It covers a wide range of areas interesting to several audiences such as researchers, graduate students and professionals working on the industry food. Among the main topics we will discuss examples of environmental applications, such as heavy metal and hydrocarbon bioremediation, bioprospection of valuable molecules from extremophilic bacteria and yeasts, the use of Patagonian yeasts and lactic acid bacteria in fermented foods and beverages, aquaculture probiotics and yeasts for food biopreservation.

Download or read book Adaptive Soil Management From Theory to Practices written by Amitava Rakshit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stakeholders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems. As natural areas shrink and fragment, our ability to sustain economic growth and safeguard biological diversity and ecological integrity is increasingly being put to the test. In attempting to meet this unprecedented challenge, adaptive management is becoming a viable alternative for broader application. Adaptive management is an iterative decision-making process which is both operationally and conceptually simple and which incorporates users to acknowledge and account for uncertainty, and sustain an operating environment that promotes its reduction through careful planning, evaluation, and learning until the desired results are achieved. This multifaceted approach requires clearly defined management objectives to guide decisions about what actions to take, and explicit assumptions about expected outcomes to compare against actual outcomes. In this edited book, we address the issue by pursuing a holistic and systematic approach that utilizes natural resources to reap sustainable environmental, economic and social benefits for adaptive management, helping to ensure that relationships between land, water and plants are managed in ways that mimic nature.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Agrophysics written by Jan Gliński and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia of Agrophysics will provide up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environment and plant production. It will be a "first-up" volume which will nicely complement the recently published Encyclopedia of Soil Science, (November 2007) which was published in the same series. In a single authoritative volume a collection of about 250 informative articles and ca 400 glossary terms covering all aspects of agrophysics will be presented. The authors will be renowned specialists in various aspects in agrophysics from a wide variety of countries. Agrophysics is important both for research and practical use not only in agriculture, but also in areas like environmental science, land reclamation, food processing etc. Agrophysics is a relatively new interdisciplinary field closely related to Agrochemistry, Agrobiology, Agroclimatology and Agroecology. Nowadays it has been fully accepted as an agricultural and environmental discipline. As such this Encyclopedia volume will be an indispensable working tool for scientists and practitioners from different disciplines, like agriculture, soil science, geosciences, environmental science, geography, and engineering.

Download or read book Soil Quality Sampling Guidance on the Collection Handling and Storage of Soil for the Assessment of Aerobic Microbial Processes in Soil written by British Standards Institute Staff and published by . This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soils, Quality, Soil science, Sampling methods, Soil testing, Microbiological analysis, Laboratory testing, Biological analysis and testing, Samples, Reports, Transportation, Storage, Marking, Specimen preparation, Bibliography

Download or read book Selective thinning written by Gianni Bettini and published by Compagnia delle Foreste Srl. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una pubblicazione che descrive obiettivi e tecnica del trattamento selvicolturale proposto per le pinete artificiali di pino nero dell’Appennino. Si tratta di un diradamento di tipo selettivo finalizzato ad accrescere: la stabilità meccanica complessiva (funzione protettiva), la capacità di crescita delle piante (funzione produttiva), la differenziazione strutturale (funzione di aumento di biodiversità). Il manuale descrive le tecniche adottate che prevedono la scelta di piante candidate ed il taglio delle dirette concorrenti sul piano dominante. L’obiettivo è quello di aprire la copertura dando più spazio alle chiome per incrementarne sviluppo e la capacità fotosintetica e, contemporaneamente, determinare al suolo un diverso regime di luce, acqua e temperatura con conseguente aumento della biodiversità vegetale del sottobosco, quella livello dell’ambiente suolo (funghi, batteri, flora, mesofauna, nematodi) nonché la funzionalità complessiva dell’ecosistema. Il protocollo sperimentale prevede il confronto del diradamento selettivo con quello tradizionale e con il non intervento attraverso rilievi ante e post interventi specifici per l’analisi della biodiversità delle componenti di sottobosco e suolo di cui il manuale riporta le metodologie adottate. La trattazione si conclude con la descrizione delle due aree oggetto del progetto: Pratomagno e Monte Amiata e riporta caratteristiche e primi risultati relativi agli interventi di diradamento applicati. Del manuale sono state realizzate tre versioni linguistiche: italiano, inglese e spagnolo. Della versione italiana è stata realizzata anche una versione cartacea la cui distribuzione è prevista durante le attività di formazione e sensibilizzazione del progetto. Pubblication from SelPiBioLife Project [LIFE13 BIO/IT/000282]

Download or read book Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management written by Eugenio Martinez-Falero and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest management has evolved from a mercantilist view to a multi-functional one that integrates economic, social, and ecological aspects. However, the issue of sustainability is not yet resolved. Quantitative Techniques in Participatory Forest Management brings together global research in three areas of application: inventory of the forest variables that determine the main environmental indices, description and design of new environmental indices, and the application of sustainability indices for regional implementations. All these quantitative techniques create the basis for the development of scientific methodologies of participatory sustainable forest management.

Download or read book Assessment and Modeling of Soil Functions or Soil Based Ecosystem Services Theory and Applications to Practical Problems written by Philippe C. Baveye and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Agricultural Sustainability written by Ashok Kumar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To meet the food security needs of the 21st century, this book focuses on ecofriendly and sustainable production technologies based on plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). It is estimated that the global population could increase to 9 billion by 2050. Further, the amount of land devoted to farming has decreased. Soil is a living entity, and is not only a valuable natural resource for agricultural and food security, but also for the preservation of all life processes. Agricultural productivity rests on the foundation of microbial diversity in the soil, and in recent years, PGPR have emerged as an important and promising tool for sustainable agriculture. The injudicious use of agrochemicals by farmers has created a range of negative impacts, not only threatening the environment, but also destroying useful microorganisms in the soil. The efficient use of PGPR reduces the need for these chemicals while simultaneously lowering production costs. In turn, increased yields could provide a more favourable environment and encourage sustainability. This book assesses the impacts of PGPR on crops, environmental and socio-economic sustainability, and demonstrates these ecofriendly technologies’ three critical advantages, namely (a) enhanced crop productivity, (b) reduced application of agrochemicals, and (c) increased incomes for farmers. Besides offering an economically attractive and ecologically sound means of augmenting the nutrient supply and combatting soil-borne pathogens, PGPR play an important part in boosting soil fertility, bioremediation and stress management for the development of ecofriendly and sustainable agriculture.