M. Wood: Environmental Soil Biology

Cover: 9780751403435 | Environmental Soil Biology | M. Wood | Taschenbuch | ix | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Environmental considerations are playing an increasingly important role in determining management strategies for soil and land. Many important environmental issues involve aspects of the biology of soil, and these issues cannot be considered satisfactorily in isolation from a general understanding of soil biology as a whole. This is the second edition of a book first published in 1989 and now thoroughly rewritten to focus on soil ecology and environmental issues. The first part of the book provides an introduction to soils, its inhabitants, and their activities. The second part covers the influence of man on the natural cycles of soil. Topics such as acid rain and nitrogen fertilizers are considered alongside pesticides and genetically modified organisms. A new final chapter has been added which considers how, as we move towards the next millennium, we can apply the concept of sustainability to issues such as global climate change and farming systems. The book is directed at advanced undergraduate and immediate postgraduate students in environmental science and soil ecology, with students of physical geography and earth sciences as an important secondary market.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Soil as a habitat for organisms.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The soil environment.- 2 Life in the soil.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Microbial biomass.- 2.3 The soil inhabitants.- 2.4 Plant roots.- 2.5 Summary.- 3 Biological processes in soil.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 What do organisms require for life?.- 3.3 Selected biochemical processes.- 3.4 Soil enzymes.- 3.5 Sources of substrates for heterotrophs.- 3.6 Substrate quality.- 3.7 Microbial biomass and nutrient cycling.- 3.8 Summary.- 4 Soil formation and development.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Pedogenesis.- 4.3 Weathering of rock.- 4.4 Organic matter.- 4.5 Profile development.- 4.6 The influence of man.- 5 Environmental issues.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Acidification.- 5.3 Salinity.- 5.4 Heavy metals.- 5.5 Chernobyl and radioactivity.- 5.6 Nitrate leaching.- 5.7 Pesticides.- 5.8 Introduced organisms.- 6 Soil biology - into the next millennium.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Sustainability - so what's new?.- 6.3 Environmental quality.- 6.4 Soils and global climate change.- 6.5 Biodiversity.- 6.6 Sustainable agricultural systems.- 6.7 Man and the Earth.- References and further reading.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1995
Fachbereich:	Bau- und Umwelttechnik
Genre:	Importe , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	ix 150 S.
ISBN-13:	9780751403435
ISBN-10:	0751403431
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wood, M.
Auflage:	Second Edition 1995
Hersteller:	Springer Netherland Springer Netherlands
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	M. Wood
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.08.1995
Gewicht:	0,26 kg