Soil Science: Agricultural and Environmental Prospectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

Soil is the most important natural non-renewable resource developed over a longer period of time due to weathering of rocks and subsequently enrichment of organic matter. Soil provides habitat for numerous microorganisms and serves as a natural medium for plant growth, thereby providing the plants with anchorage, nutrients and water to sustain the growth. Soil also serves as a universal sink for all types of pollutants, purifies ground water and is a major reserve of carbon in the universe. The role of soils to provide ecosystem services, maintenance of environmental/human health and ensuring the food security makes it as the most important and basic natural resource. Soil Science helps us to elaborate and understand how the soils provide all these services. Soil Science also provides us the basic knowledge dealing with the origin of the soil parent material, weathering of parent material and the formation of soils, morphological, physico-chemical and biological features of soils, classification of soils and role of soils in the provision and maintenance of ecosystem services, food security and environmental quality. This book encompasses the various processes, functions and behaviour of soils very comprehensively to acquaint the students of soil, plant and environmental sciences about their role to perform different agricultural and environmental functions.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Khalid Rehman Hakeem • Javaid Akhtar • Muhammad Sabir
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	430
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-34449-2
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant reproduction & propagation > General
LSN:	3-319-34449-8
Barcode:	9783319344492

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