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Category : Soil management
Languages : en
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A Guide to Soil Health and Visual Soil Assessment
Author: Visual Soil Assessment
Author: Trevor Graham ShepherdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781877468759
Category : Soil management
Languages : en
Pages :
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Cornell Soil Health Assessment Training Manual
Author: Beth K. GuginoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967650746
Category : Soil biology
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Soil Health Analysis, Set
Author: Douglas L. KarlenPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0891189904
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Volume 1 briefly reviews selected “Approaches to Soil Health Analysis” including a brief history of the concept, challenges and opportunities, meta-data and assessment, applications to forestry and urban land reclamation, and future soil health monitoring and evaluation approaches. Volume 2 focuses on “Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis” including an overview and suggested analytical approaches intended to provide meaningful, comparable data so that soil health can be used to guide restoration and protection of our global soil resources.
Laboratory Guide for Conducting Soil Tests and Plant Analysis
Author: Jr., J. Benton JonesPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420025295
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
With the help of this guide, you can use obtained test results to evaluate the fertility status of soils and the nutrient element status of plants for crop production purposes. It serves as an instructional manual on the techniques used to perform chemical and physical characteristic tests on soils. Laboratory Guide for Conducting Soil Tests and Pl
Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis (Soil Health series, Volume 2)
Author: Douglas L. KarlenPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0891189823
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
Approaches to Soil Health Analysis (Soil Health series, Volume 1)
Author: Douglas L. KarlenPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0891189807
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Approaches to Soil Health Analysis A concise survey of soil health analysis and its various techniques and applications The maintenance of healthy soil resources provides the foundation for an array of global efforts and initiatives that affect humanity. 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, fragile 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 One: Approaches to Soil Health Analysis provides a well-rounded overview of the various methods and strategies available to analysists, and covers topics including: The history of soil health and its study Challenges and opportunities facing analysists Meta-data and its assessment Applications to forestry and urban land reclamation Future soil health monitoring and evaluation approaches Offering a far-reaching survey of this increasingly interdisciplinary field, 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.
Soil Analysis
Author: K. I. PeverillPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643063765
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A practical guide to soil tests for Australian soils and conditions.
Guidelines for Soil Description
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251055212
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Soils are affected by human activities, such as industrial, municipal and agriculture, that often result in soil degradation and loss. In order to prevent soil degradation and to rehabilitate the potentials of degraded soils, reliable soil data are the most important prerequisites for the design of appropriate land-use systems and soil management practices as well as for a better understanding of the environment. The availability of reliable information on soil morphology and other characteristics obtained through examination and description of the soil in the field is essential, and the use of a common language is of prime importance. These guidelines, based on the latest internationally accepted systems and classifications, provide a complete procedure for soil description and for collecting field data. To help beginners, some explanatory notes are included as well as keys based on simple test and observations.--Publisher's description.
Visual Soil Evaluation
Author: Bruce C. BallPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1780644701
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Visual Soil Evaluation (VSE) provides land users and environmental authorities with the tools to assess soil quality for crop performance. This book describes the assessment of the various structural conditions of soil, especially after quality degradation such as compaction, erosion or organic matter loss. Covering a broad range of land types from abandoned peats to prime arable land, this useful handbook assesses yield potential across a range of scales. It also appraises the use of VSE in determining the potential of different land types for carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient leaching, and for diagnosing and rectifying erosion and compaction in soils.