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Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resi…
This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference. In addition to Introduction and Conclusion sections, the book is thematically divided into 7 sections, namely, 1) Land Use and Farming Systems, 2) Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield, 3) Soil Nutrient and Water Management for Carbon Sequestration, 4) Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands …
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- 978-3-319-09360-4
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- XXII, 665
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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
This book features review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge. It also proposes novel, environmentally friendly solutions that are based on integrated information from such fields as agroecology, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, economics and the social sciences. Coverage examines ways to produce food and energy in a sustainable way for huma…
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- Volume 18
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- 978-3-319-21629-4
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- VI, 319
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- Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion…
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- Volume 17
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- 978-3-319-16742-8
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- VI, 366
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- Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review…
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- 978-3-319-09132-7
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- IX, 407
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- Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Nematode Pathogenesis of Insects and Other Pests:Ecology and Applied Technolo…
Achieving a sustainable agriculture requires integrating advances in multiples disciplines, covering both fundamental and applied research in a common objective: enhancing crop health for better productions. This first volume of the Series “Sustainability in plant and crop protection” presents a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary compendium about the recent achievements in the use of ento…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-18266-7
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- XVII, 531
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- Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
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Mycorrhizal Networks
The last 25 years have seen significant advances in our understanding of the mycorrhizal fungi that colonize most of the world’s plants, and the mycorrhizal networks that form and extend into the soil beyond plant roots. In addition to a thorough review of recent research on mycorrhizal networks, this book provides readers with alternative perspectives. The book is organized into three sectio…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-7394-2
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- XVIII, 286
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- Ecological Studies
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Organic Amendments and Soil Suppressiveness in Plant Disease Management
This book provides a timely review of concepts in plant disease management involving microbial soil suppressiveness and organic amendments. Topics discussed include the impact of suppressive soils on plant pathogens and agricultural productivity, the enhancement of soil suppressiveness through the application of compost and the development of disease suppressive soils through agronomic manag…
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- 978-3-319-23075-7
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- 631.4 ORG
The Soils of Taiwan
Physical Geography
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- 978-94-017-9726-9
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The Soils of Iceland
In this new volume in the World Soil series, the various types of Icelandic soils, their different characteristics, their formation, degradation and erosion are reviewed. At the same time, the book also deals with the agriculture and land use in general to give a complete view of Icelandic soils. The first part details the natural parameters such as the climate and the geography of Iceland. It …
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- 978-94-017-9621-7
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The Soils of Antarctica
This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region. Soils have been studied in Antarctica for nearly 100 years. Although only 0.35% (45,000 km2) of Antarctica is ice-free, its weathered, unconsolidated material qualify as “soils”. Soils of Antarctica is richly illustrated with nearly 150 images and provisional maps are provided for …
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- 978-3-319-05497-1
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