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Soil Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Soil Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Soil Biology, 59
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This book gathers the latest insights into soil health and its
sustainability, providing an up-to-date overview of the various
aspects of soil quality and fertility management, e.g.,
plant-microbe interactions to maintain soil health; and the use of
algal, fungal and bacterial fertilizers and earthworms for
sustainable soil health and agricultural production. It first
discusses the past, present, and future scenarios of soil health,
and then explores factors influencing soil health, as well as the
consequences of degradation of soil health for sustainable
agriculture. Lastly it highlights solutions to improve and maintain
soil health so as to achieve greater productivity and
sustainability without damaging the soil system or the environment.
Soil health is defined as the capacity of a soil to function within
ecosystem frontiers, to sustain biological productivity, to
maintain environmental quality and to promote plant, animal and
human health. Soil health is established through the interactions
of physical, chemical and biological properties, e.g., soil
texture, soil structure, and soil organisms. Healthy soil provides
adequate levels of macro- and micronutrients to plants and contains
sufficient populations of soil microorganisms. As a result of the
increasingly intensified agriculture over the past few decades,
soils are now showing symptoms of exhaustion and stagnating or
declining crop yields. Exploring these developments as well as
possible solutions based on holistic and sustainable approaches,
this book is a valuable resource for researchers in the area of
soil and environmental science, agronomy, agriculture, as well as
students in the field of botany, ecology and microbiology.
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