Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Landscape -- Chapter 2 -- Satluj Floodplain: Patterns of Landscape Transformation -- Chapter 3 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Hazardscape -- Chapter4 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Possible Green Habitat.This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception. As a landscape this floodplain entity evolves and sets a niche to distinctiv…
Introduction -- Soil research history -- Climate -- Geology and geomorphology -- Soil maps and major soil types -- Soil properties and its sustainability -- Soil classification -- Soil fertility and its security -- Land use and vegetation -- Soil pollution and its management -- Soils and humans -- Future soil issues.This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesi…
1.Impact of liquid whey waste on strength and stiffness of cement treated clay -- 2.Experimental Study of Erosion on Expansive Soil Slope Strengthened by HPTRM System -- 3.The geotechnical properties of water sensitive soils, loess -- 4.Experimental study on wet and dry cycle durability of solidified silt by zeolite and cement -- 5.Performance evaluation of low volume rural roads- A state-of-th…
Section 1 Problems of SUITMA diagnostic and classification -- Section 2 Spatial temporal variability of urban soils features and processes -- Section 3 Urban soils' functions and ecosystem services: from concepts to application -- Section 4 Bioremediation and reclamation of soils contaminated with oil products, heavy metals and radionuclide -- Section 5 Genesis, geography, soil features and pro…
History of soil research -- Geology and geomorphology -- Climate -- Vegetation -- Distribution and classification of soils -- Soils of the Pampean Region -- Soils from the Patagonian Region -- Northwestern Argentina Soils -- Soils of the Cuyo Region -- Soils of the Chaco Region -- Soils of the Mesopotamian Region -- Soils of Entre Rios -- Soils of Corrientes -- Soils of Misiones -- Soils of the…
Chapter 1: Methods to study Pedology and Edaphology of Indian Tropical Soils: An Overview -- Chapter 2: Evidence of Clay Illuviation in Soils of the Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP) and Red Ferruginous (RF) Soils -- Chapter 3: Clay Illuviation and Pedoturbation in SAT Vertisols Chapter 4: Cracking Depths in Indian Vertisols: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change -- Chapter 5: Unique Depth Dis…
Chapter 1: An Insight into Mycorrhiza Involved in Building Soil Health (Swami) -- Chapter 2: Integrated Soil Fertility Management (Yadav) -- Chapter 3: Mulching: An option to Improve Sustainable Soil Health (Gopalakrishnan) -- Chapter 4: Biofertilizers -- Chapter 5: Microbiome of rhizospheric soil and vermicompost and their applications in soil fertility, pest and pathogen management for sustai…
Part I: Words of Welcome from All Continents: -- Greeting to the launch of the Yearbook from an African Perspective -- Audit of Soil Governance .-Soils need international governance - A European perspective for the first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy -- North American Soils and World Food -- Soils Governance, an Australian perspective Striving for Land-Soil Sustai…
Gaining Insights on the Effects of Tree Species on Soils -- Effects of British Columbia Tree Species on Forest Floor Chemistry -- Nutrient Turnover, Greenhouse Gas Exchange and Biodiversity in Natural Forests of Central Europe -- Tree Species Effects on Nitrogen Cycling and Retention: A Synthesis of Studies Using 15N Tracers -- Tree Species Management and Nitrate Contamination of Groundwater: A…
Root nitrogen acquisition and assimilation -- Phosphate acquisition -- Root-based N2-fixing symbioses: Legumes, actinorhizal plants, Parasponia sp. and cycads -- Mycorrhizas: Gene to function -- Cluster roots: A curiosity in context -- The roots of carnivorous plants -- Roles of aquaporins in root responses to irrigation -- Mechanisms of plant resistance to metal and metalloid ions and potentia…