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Environmental Soil Science (second edition)
Kim H. Tan
Marcel Dekker
2000
480 pages, illustrated ISBN 0824703405
£50.00
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This second edition presents completely new material on several topics, including aspects of:
- abiotic, biological, and biochemical weathering of minerals in soils;
- microbial compounds such as enzymes, hormones, mucigel, and extracellular polysaccharides;
electric double layer theory;
- desertification and soil degradation as natural processes of aging;
- low-input sustainable agriculture, and
- schemes for cultivating crops in outer space.
Contents
Soils and the environment;
inorganic soil constituents;
organic constituents;
gas phase in soils;
liquid
phase;
soil physics in the environment;
electro-chemical properties of solid constituents;
soils and crop production;
soilless agriculture;
biotechnology in soil science and agriculture;
soil and pollution.
Appendices: atomic weights
of the major elements in soils;
international System of Units (SI); factors for converting US units into SI units; US weights and measures.
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