Strongly grounded in the scientific method and evidence, "The Environment: Science, Issues, and Solutions" presents an organized, accessible, building block approach that introduces the principles of ecology. This book examines the effects of technology use and the unprecedented…
This book, whose primary aim is to describe liquefaction processes and their implications for marine structures such as pipelines, sea outfalls, quay walls and caisson breakwaters, discusses the subject of soil liqeufaction in the marine environment. In addition, the physics of …
Advances in understanding soil functionality are being realised by harnessing omics technologies such as metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, proteomics and volatilomics.
This book contains 31 chapters, grouped into 7 parts, which provides a link between the complexity of the scientific knowledge on soil carbon, and how this knowledge can be applied for multiple benefits, and the complexity of the policy and practice arenas where soil and land ma…
Gary Zimmer is recognized for improving farming by restoring soils. Arguing that an optimally productive soil contains a balance of inorganic minerals, organic materials and living organisms, he relies less on modern improvements than on "the things we’ve learned by improving fe…
Table of contents: Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Phosphorus in Agriculture and Its Environmental Implications, A Sharpley and S Rekolainen Estimating the Contribution from Agriculture to the Phosphorus Load in Surface Water, S D Lennox, R H Foy, R V Smith and C Jordan Ph…
Combines traditional approaches in soil microbiology and biochemistry with techniques in molecular microbial ecology. This book includes methods to analyse the presence and importance of nucleic acids and proteins both inside and outside microbial cells, the horizontal gene tran…
"Terra preta, meaning "black earth" in Portuguese, is a very dark, fertile soil first made by the original inhabitants of the Amazon Basin at least 2,500 years ago. According to a growing community of international scientists, this ancient soil, sometimes referred to as biochar,…
