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Volcanic Unrest
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Jurgen Neuberg, Bettina Scheu, Joachim Gottsmann
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Nutrient use efficiency is a measure of how efficiently plants use
the available mineral nutrients to produce economic produce.
Improving nutrient use efficiency is very much essential under
current scenario besides an understanding of the nutrient dynamics
in soil-plant system."Enhancing nutrient use efficiency: Concepts,
methods, and management interventions" is a comprehensive book
which has a compilation of topics related to enhancement of
nutrient use efficiency of various crops and cropping systems.
Although it depends on the ability to plants to take up the
nutrients from the soil, management practices have a key role to
intervene the use efficiency. This book has 27 chapters written by
eminent researchers in the field and addresses multifaceted
approaches to enhance the nutrient use efficiency. Improving
nutrient use efficiency is a prerequisite to reducing production
costs in the wake of escalating cost of agricultural inputs in
farming besides minimizing environmental contamination. Soil
physical management is the foremost strategy to enhance the
nutrient use efficiency. Hand held devices are popular among the
farmers for nitrogen management in rice in several parts of the
country, besides slow release nitrogenous fertilizers. Experiences
from Long term fertilizer experiments and soil test crop response
correlation are of immense use to understand the nutrient dynamics
in soil and in turn designing practices for higher use efficiency.
Besides describing the concepts and methods of nutrient use
efficiency, management practices for dry land crops and cropping
systems, cereal based cropping systems, rainfed pulses based
cropping systems, soybean based cropping systems, sugarcane based
cropping systems, cotton based cropping systems, tobacoo and oil
seed based cropping systems, rapeseedmustard based cropping systems
and spices based cropping systems are also dealt in this book and
would serve as a resource guide for enhancing nutrient use
efficiency in various crops and cropping systems
This book comprises 31 chapters on advances in soil-plant systems
for improving nutrient use efficiency with four major themes viz.
1. Introduction and Fundamentals of Soil Plant Atmosphere Continuum
and nutrient use efficiency 2. Soil physical, chemical, biological
and agronomic management for improving NUE 3. Plant physiological,
genetic & molecular biological basis for improving nutrient
uptake & use efficiency 4. Climate change aspects related to
soil and plant systems for improving NUE. Besides the book also
include few chapters on analytical techniques and instrumentation
for the study of nutrient use efficiency with respect to
physico-chemical and biological parameters.
Weather and climate play an important role in animal husbandry and
livestock production. While climate determines the adaptability of
a particular animal in a given region, weather determines animal
health and day-to-day performance. Altogether twenty seven chapters
are included in this book, covering basic aspects of atmospheric
phenomena and its applications in the field of animal agriculture.
In nutshell, the textbook revolves around basic concepts of
livestock meteorology, effects of various weather elements and
indices on animal physiology, relevance of modification of
microclimate, livestock advisory based on weather forewarning,
effects of weather and climate on diseases including UV radiation
effects, meteorological instruments, units and computations,
statistical methods in livestock meteorology and climatology of
India. This is unique publication and is of immense use to the
students, faculty members, researchers, scientists and students of
animal husbandry, livestock meteorology, climate science. climate
change and animal agriculture. It will be a reference material to
all those who are interested to understand the impact of weather
and climate on animal husbandry and livestock management. The
Editors' earnest hope is that the textbook will be widely read and
discussed among the scientific community in the field of climate
change and animal agriculture.
Due to unprecedented growth in population and the resultant massive
mining of energy resources, especially the non-renewable resources
and also water resources, these resources have gradually become
scarce commodities. Hence the geoscientists and the technocrats
from all over the world have embarked into many fold research
programmes for locating newer reservoirs of these resources and
also to develop models to conserve and sustainably exploit them. As
this involves the total understanding of the rock types, tectonic
architecture, geomorphology and reservoir conditions, the Geomatics
technology comprising Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System
(GIS), etc have been found to be vital tools in the inventory and
management of these resources; While the former due to its
synoptivity, multispectral nature and repeativity and the latter by
virtue of its capability to store, manipulate and model huge volume
of spatial and non-spatial data. Divergent geological provinces and
processes are brought out deserving concepts and methods on
geology, 3D visualization of subsurface lineaments, SRTM based
lineament mapping, spatio-linear modeling of hard rock aquifer
systems, 3D visualization of oil bearing structures, etc., both as
field geologists and as researchers.
The book "Landslide Research- The DST's Initiatives" is a
compilation of over 21 Scientific articles on various aspects of
Landslides viz: Overviews, Earth system processes and Landslides,
Landslide hazard Zonation mapping, Geotechnical investigations,
instrumentation and early warning of Landslides, Satellite based
monitoring of Landslides, site specific investigations etc. These
articles are the outcome of the studies carried by various
academicians, researchers and the research institutions under the
funding of NRDMS/DST in different geological provinces of Indian
subcontinent. These articles provide wider and deeper spectrum of
information on earth system processes like post collision tectonics
of Shillong plateau, Churachandpur-Mao fault and up-warping of
Tirumalai hills and the Landslides; different geo-spatial and
geo-statistical techniques and optimisation of methods for
Landslide hazard zonation mapping from Western Ghats of South
India, BIS based methods of LHZ mapping and Geotechnical
investigations encompassing RMR, SMR & Kinematic studies of
landslides of northeastern region; instrumentation and forewarning
of Jakhri Landslides, wireless sensor based Landslide monitoring of
Munnar (Kerala); SAR interferometery based monitoring of Nainital
and Mansadevi landslides; and site specific landslides studies of
Kailasaur (Himalayas), Rawana slides (Himachal Pradesh),
geophysical studies of Landslides of Mizoram region, Malin
landslides (Maharashtra), techniques of diagnosing active movements
from Nilgiris etc.
Heat Transport and Energetics of the Earth and Rocky Planets
provides a better understanding of the interior of the Earth by
addressing the processes related to the motion of heat in large
bodies. By addressing issues such as the effect of self-gravitation
on the thermal state of the Earth, the effect of length-scales on
heat transport, important observations of Earth, and a comparison
to the behavior of other rocky bodies, readers will find clearly
delineated discussions on the thermal state and evolution of the
Earth. Using a combination of fundamentals, new developments and
scientific and mathematical principles, the book summarizes the
state-of-the-art. This timely reference is an important resource
for geophysicists, planetary scientists, geologists, geochemists,
and seismologists to gain a better understanding of the interior,
formation and evolution of planetary bodies.
Semi-Lagrangian Advection Methods and Their Applications in
Geoscience provides a much-needed resource on semi-Lagrangian
theory, methods, and applications. Covering a variety of
applications, the book brings together developments of the
semi-Lagrangian in one place and offers a comparison of
semi-Lagrangian methods with Eulerian-based approaches. It also
includes a chapter dedicated to difficulties of dealing with the
adjoint of semi-Lagrangian methods and illustrates the behavior of
different schemes for different applications. This allows for a
better understanding of which schemes are most efficient, stable,
consistent, and likely to introduce the minimum model error into a
given problem. Beneficial for students learning about numerical
approximations to advection, researchers applying these techniques
to geoscientific modeling, and practitioners looking for the best
approach for modeling, Semi-Lagrangian Advection Methods and Their
Applications in Geoscience fills a crucial gap in numerical
modeling and data assimilation in geoscience.
Global Change and Forest Soils: Cultivating Stewardship of a Finite
Natural Resource, Volume 36, provides a state-of-the-science
summary and synthesis of global forest soils that identifies
concerns, issues and opportunities for soil adaptation and
mitigation as external pressures from global changes arise. Where,
how and why some soils are resilient to global change while others
are at risk is explored, as are upcoming train wrecks and success
stories across boreal, temperate, and tropical forests. Each
chapter offers multiple sections written by leading soil scientists
who comment on wildfires, climate change and forest harvesting
effects, while also introducing examples of current global issues.
Readers will find this book to be an integrated, up-to-date
assessment on global forest soils.
This book is intended to be the most complete and up-to-date guide
to the geology and fossils of the New Forest, providing a wealth of
information of interest to both the amateur fossil collector and
the professional geologist. It includes some 200 field photographs,
palaeogeographic maps, digitised borehole/outcrop logs, and
geological cross sections. Also included is a tour of the regional
geological evolution of southern England since the Permian Period
(-280 million years ago), based on deep boreholes and coastal
exposures, including the world-famous Jurassic coast of Dorset and
east Devon. The author discusses the petroleum geology of southern
England and the New Forest and gives a detailed overview of the
stratigraphy of the Hampshire Basin, followed by related aspects of
economic geology within this area, including ironstones, freshwater
aquifers, geothermal energy, sand, clay and peat resources.
Finally, there is an up-to-date and complete account of the
principal fossil localities, together with a comprehensive gallery
of photographs with accompanying descriptions of the most abundant
fossils within the New Forest National Park.
This book discusses the fundamental principles of different
branches of geology prescribed in the syllabus, so that the
students acquire basic knowledge of the subject. The book consists
of basic concepts and practical aspects of these subjects as
prescribed syllabus of Civil and Mining Engineering courses in
various Universities and Institutes.
Energy and water have been fundamental to powering the global
economy and building modern society. This cross-disciplinary book
provides an integrated assessment of the different scientific and
policy tools around the energy-water nexus. It focuses on how water
use, and wastewater and waste solids produced from fossil fuel
energy production affect water quality and quantity. Summarizing
cutting edge research, it describes the scientific methods for
detecting contamination sources in the context of policy and
regulations. The authors highlight the growing evidence that fossil
fuel production, from both conventional and unconventional sources,
leads to water quality degradation, while regulations for the water
and energy sector remain fractured and highly variable across and
within countries. This volume will be a key reference for scholars,
industry professionals, environmental consultants and policy makers
seeking information on the risks associated with the energy cycle
and its impact on the environment, particularly water resources.
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