Introduction -- Agroextractivism: the desert grows -- The economic rationality of agroextractivism -- Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness -- The government of the affects -- Agroecology in post-development settings -- Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology -- The future, behind.This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing t…
1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change and its impacts on Bhutan -- 3. Glaciers as indicators of changing climate in Himalaya -- 4. Land degradation in the Khyber mountains, Pakistan -- 5. Biodiversity Conservation in a Himalayan fringe -- 6. Spreading urban tentacles in the Scotland of the East -- 7. Blowing hot, blowing cold: The urban heat island effect in Srinagar -- 8. Protected areas in Bhu…
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…
Setting the Scene -- A Geographic Overview of Panama -- An Introduction to the Panama Canal Watershed -- Light and Shadows in the Management of the Panama Canal Watershed -- Geological Development of Panama -- The Upper Río Chagres Basin -- Igneous Geology and Geochemistry of the Upper Río Chagres Basin -- GIS-Based Stream Network Analysis for the Upper Río Chagres Basin, Panama -- Soils of …
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…
Large Processes with Small Targets: Rarity and Pollination in Rain Forests -- The Canopy Biology Program in Sarawak: Scope, Methods, and Merit -- Soil-Related Floristic Variation in a Hyperdiverse Dipterocarp Forest -- Plant Reproductive Phenology and General Flowering in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest -- A Severe Drought in Lambir Hills National Park -- The Plant-Pollinator Community in a Lowland …
Soil Factors Affecting Nutrient Bioavailability -- Decomposition and Mineralization of Nutrients from Litter and Humus -- Integrated Root Responses to Variations in Nutrient Supply -- Internal Regulation of Nutrient Uptake by Relative Growth Rate and Nutrient-Use Efficiency -- Biological Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Angiosperms in Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Homeostatic Processes for the Opt…
In the Land of the Mermaid: How Culture, not Ecology, Influenced Marine Mammal Exploitation in the Southeastern Caribbean -- Conserving the Pines of Guadalupe and Cedros Islands, Mexico: An International Collaboration -- Biodiversity Conservation in Bolivia: History, Trends and Challenges -- Peasant, Environment and Maize “Modernization” -- Planting Trees, Building Democracy: Sustainable Co…
State of the Art -- In Vitro Culture of Mycorrhizas -- Systematics -- The Monoxenic Culture of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as a Tool for Germplasm Collections -- The Monoxenic Culture of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as a Tool for Systematics and Biodiversity -- Life Cycle of Glomus Species in Monoxenic Culture -- Life History Strategies in Gigasporaceae: Insight from Monoxenic Culture -- In Vi…