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Book New Zealand Soils on CD

Download or read book New Zealand Soils on CD written by P. L. Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents examples of New Zealand soils, with pictures and interactive activities. Shows the variety and array of New Zealand soil types, and introduces methods for describing soil features and the New Zealand soil classification.

Book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soils and Groundwater Pollution and Remediation

Download or read book Soils and Groundwater Pollution and Remediation written by P. M. Huang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing population densities of Asia, Africa and Oceania are in conflict with the ecosystem. A growing demand for food and fiber causes agriculture to rely heavily upon chemical fertilization, herbicides and pesticides. Rising industrial output creates higher contamination from cadmium, lead, selenium, and other metals. Soils and Groundwater Remediation explores the toxic levels of metals, radionuclides, inorganics, and anthropogenic organic compounds found in the soils and groundwater of Asia, Africa and Oceania. This 14 chapter book reviews the distribution, transformation, and dynamics of the pollutants. The authors also reflect on the impact of Acid-rain. The contributors to this book are well-known scientists from Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, and Kenya. The authors address their findings to researchers, educators, government regulators, and students. As the title suggests, the book is ultimately concerned with remediation. Huang and Iskandar feel "the potential for restoring ecosystem health ... in these areas is enormous." The contributions of Soils and Groundwater Remediation will bring science closer to achieving that possibility.

Book The Soils of Aotearoa New Zealand

Download or read book The Soils of Aotearoa New Zealand written by Allan E. Hewitt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system. Starting with an overview of the importance and distribution of New Zealand soils, it subsequently provides essential information on each of the 15 New Zealand soil orders in separate chapters. Each chapter, illustrated with diagrams and photographs in colour, includes a summary of the main features of the soils in the order, their genesis and relationships with landscapes, their key properties including examples of physical and chemical characteristics, and their classification, use, and management. The book then features a chapter on soils in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica and concludes by considering New Zealand soils in a global context, soil-formation pathways, and methods used in New Zealand to evaluate soils and assist in land-management decisions. Information about how to access detailed information via links to the Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research website is also included.

Book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theories and Methods for Minimizing Cadmium Pollution in Crops

Download or read book Theories and Methods for Minimizing Cadmium Pollution in Crops written by Zhongyi Yang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cadmium (Cd) contamination has raised increasingly global concern on food safety. The book was composed to bring comprehensive and valuable thoughts about the food safety management against heavy metal contamination. In this book, current status of cadmium contamination in agricultural soils and crops is systematically summarized. In order to reduce the risk of Cd pollution in crops, Cd pollution-safe cultivar (Cd-PSC) strategy, i.e. identifying, breeding and applying the cultivars with particularly low Cd accumulation capacity in edible parts even when grown in Cd contaminated soil, is proposed as a most effective, low-cost and environmental-friendly method for minimizing Cd pollution in crops. To describe the framework of the Cd-PSC strategy, a series research results on water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk) are summarized as a typical case. The latest findings about the Cd-PSCs of water spinach, including cultivar variation in shoot Cd accumulation, identification and verification of low- and high-Cd accumulating cultivars, stability of Cd accumulation capacity at the cultivar level, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of the cultivar-dependent Cd uptake, transfer and accumulation, breeding methods for improving Cd-PSCs, and so on, have been covered. This book will provide valuable theoretical and practical understandings for controlling Cd pollution in crops grown on agricultural soils with known or unknown risk of Cd contamination.

Book Dynamics  Mobility and Transformation of Pollutants and Nutrients

Download or read book Dynamics Mobility and Transformation of Pollutants and Nutrients written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 623435-28a.gifVolume A deals with the dynamics, mobility and transformation of pollutants and nutrients. Soil is a dynamic system in which soil minerals constantly interact with organic matter and microorganisms. Close association among abiotic and biotic entities governs several chemical and biogeochemical processes and affects bioavailability, speciation, toxicity, transformations and transport of xenobiotics and organics in soil environments. This book elaborates critical research and an integrated view on basic aspects of mineral weathering reactions; formation and surface reactivity of soil minerals with respect to nutrients and environmental pollutants; dynamics and transformation of metals, metalloids, and natural and anthropogenic organics; effects of soil colloids on microorganisms and immobilization and activity of enzymes, and metabolic processes, growth and ecology of microbes. It offers up-to-date information on the impact of such a processes on soil development, agricultural production, environmental protection, and ecosystem integrity.

Book Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 192

Download or read book Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 192 written by George Ware and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book publishes detailed scientific review articles on all aspects of environmental contamination and associated toxicological consequences. The book will facilitate the task of accessing and interpreting cogent scientific data. It is likely to be of interest to researchers, resource managers, and policy administrators.

Book Cadmium in Soils and Plants

    Book Details:
  • Author : M.J. McLaughlin
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9401144737
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Cadmium in Soils and Plants written by M.J. McLaughlin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over forty years ago, concern was first focussed on cadmium contamination of soils, fertilisers and the food chain. Adverse effects on human health were first highlighted nearly 30 years ago in Japan with the outbreak of Itai-itai disease. Since then, substantial research data have accumulated for cadmium on chemistry in soils, additions to soils, uptake by plants, adverse effects on the soil biota and transfer through the food chain. However, this information has never been compiled into a single volume. This was the stimulus for the Kevin G. Tiller Memorial Symposium "Cadmium in Soils, Plants and the Food Chain", held at the University of California, Berkeley, in June 1997 as part of the Fourth International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements. This symposium brought together leading scientists in the field of cadmium behaviour in soils and plants, to review the scientific data in the literature and highlight gaps in our current knowledge of the subject. This series of review papers are presented here and deal with the chemistry of cadmium in soils, the potential for transfer through the food chain and management to minimise this problem. We hope this information provides a sound scientific basis to assist development of policies and regulations for controlling cadmium in the soil environment.

Book Status of Cadmium  Lead  Cobalt and Selenium in Soils and Plants of Thirty Countries

Download or read book Status of Cadmium Lead Cobalt and Selenium in Soils and Plants of Thirty Countries written by Mikko Sillanpää and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil and plant data, methodology and interpretation; Analytical methods; methods of soil analysis; Methods of plant analysis; Expression of analytical data and statistical methods used; Evaluation of results of plant and soil analysis; Background data; Cadmium; Comparison of cadmium contents of the two indicator crops; Soil factors affecting the behavior of cadmium in soils and plants; Calibration of AAAc-EDTA extractable soil Cd with pH; Plant and soil cadmium in relation to fertilizer and soil phosphorus; Lead; Comparison for lead of the two indicator crops; Soil factors affecting the behaviour of lead in soils and plants; Cobalt; Selenium; Calibration of AAAc-EDTA extractable Se with contents of organic carbon in soils; Status of Cadmium, Lead, Cobalt andSelenium by countries; Europe and Oceania; Belgium; Background data; New data; Finland; Hungary; Italy; Malta; New Zealand; Latin America; Argentina; Brazil; Ecuador; Mexico; Peru; Far East; India; Republic of Korea; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Near East; Egypt; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey; Africa; Ethiopia; Ghana; Malawi; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Tanzania; Zambia; National average analytical data on soils and plants.

Book Encyclopedia of Soil Science

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Soil Science written by Rattan Lal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 2804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and Improved Global Edition: Three-Volume Set A ready reference addressing a multitude of soil and soil management concerns, the highly anticipated and widely expanded third edition of Encyclopedia of Soil Science now spans three volumes and covers ground on a global scale. A definitive guide designed for both coursework and self-study, this latest version describes every branch of soil science and delves into trans-disciplinary issues that focus on inter-connectivity or the nexus approach. For Soil Scientists, Crop Scientists, Plant Scientists and More A host of contributors from around the world weigh in on underlying themes relevant to natural and agricultural ecosystems. Factoring in a rapidly changing climate and a vastly growing population, they sound off on topics that include soil degradation, climate change, soil carbon sequestration, food and nutritional security, hidden hunger, water quality, non-point source pollution, micronutrients, and elemental transformations. New in the Third Edition: Contains over 600 entries Offers global geographical and thematic coverage Entries peer reviewed by subject experts Addresses current issues of global significance Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Third Edition: Three Volume Set expertly explains the science of soil and describes the material in terms that are easily accessible to researchers, students, academicians, policy makers, and laymen alike. Also Available Online This Taylor & Francis encyclopedia is also available through online subscription, offering a variety of extra benefits for researchers, students, and librarians, including: Citation tracking and alerts Active reference linking Saved searches and marked lists HTML and PDF format options Contact Taylor and Francis for more information or to inquire about subscription options and print/online combination packages. US: (Tel) 1.888.318.2367; (E-mail) [email protected] International: (Tel) +44 (0) 20 7017 6062; (E-mail) [email protected]

Book Phosphate in Soils

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. Magdi Selim
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2018-10-08
  • ISBN : 148223680X
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Phosphate in Soils written by H. Magdi Selim and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by One of the Best Specialists in Soil Science Recent studies reveal that Phosphorus (P) in the form of phosphate, a macronutrient essential for plant growth, and crop yields can influence the bioavailability, retention, and mobility of trace elements, metal(loid)s, and radio nuclides in soils. When this occurs, phosphates can affect the dynamics of heavy metals and influence soil characteristics, impacting soil mobility and toxicity. Phosphate in Soils: Interaction with Micronutrients, Radionuclides and Heavy Metals utilizes the latest research to emphasize the role that phosphate plays in enhancing or reducing the mobility of heavy metals in soil, and the soil-water-plant environment. It provides an in-depth understanding of each heavy metal species, and expands on phosphate interactions in geological material. Composed of 12 chapters, this text: Provides an overview of the reactions of metal(loid)s and common P compounds that are used as fertilizer in soils Emphasizes the effect of phosphorus on copper and zinc adsorption in acid soils Discusses findings on the influence of phosphate compounds on speciation, mobility, and bioavailability of heavy metals in soils as well as the role of phosphates on in situ and phytoremediation of heavy metals for contaminated soils Places emphasis on the influence of phosphate on various heavy metals species in soils, and their solubility/mobility and availability Provides extensive information on testing various high phosphate materials for remediation of heavy metal, micronutrients, and radionuclides contaminated sites Explores the reactivity of heavy metals, micronutrients and radionuclides elements in several soils Presents a case study illustrating various remediation efforts of acidic soils and remediation of Cu, Zn, and lead (Pb) contaminated soils around nonferrous industrial plants Emphasizes the significance of common ions (cations and anions) on phosphate mobility and sorption in soils, and more The author includes analytical and numerical solutions along with hands-on applications, and addresses other topics that include the transport and sorption modeling of heavy metals in the presence of phosphate at different scales in the vadose zone.