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This book presents a comprehensive scientific overview of the components and processes that underpin the biological characteristics of soil fertility. It demonstrates the interdependence of soil biological fertility with physical and chemical characteristics of soil. The book highlights the enormous diversity of life in soil and the resulting effects that management of land can have on the contribution of this diverse community to soil fertility in an agricultural context. It is becoming more relevant to explore soil biological processes in terms of their contribution to soil fertility.

Soil biology. --- Soil fertility. --- Land use. --- Sustainable agriculture. --- Sols --- Utilisation du sol --- Agriculture durable --- Biologie --- Fertilité --- Environment. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Soil conservation. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Soil science. --- Plant Sciences. --- Low-input agriculture --- Low-input sustainable agriculture --- Lower input agriculture --- Resource-efficient agriculture --- Sustainable farming --- Agriculture --- Alternative agriculture --- Soils --- Fallowing --- Fertilizers --- Soil productivity --- Biology --- Natural history --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Fertilization --- Fertilizer movement --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Plants --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Earth sciences --- Floristic botany --- Soil Science. --- Plant Science.

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Soils would not exist without the complex and heterogeneous activities of microorganisms. For the third volume of Soil Biology, an international board of renowned scientists shed light on the significant role of these organisms. The following key topics are covered: Microorganisms in bioerosion, humification, mineralization and soil aggregation; Microbial energetics and microbes in biogeochemical processes such as carbon and nitrogen cycles and phosphorus bio-availability; Interactions in the mycorrhizosphere, e.g. between mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria; Impact of microbes on plant nutrient cycling and the possible effects of transgenic rhizospheres on soil fungi; Functions of microbes in specific soil compartments such as soil surface or toxic metal polluted soils; Regulation of microbial activities in functional domains that are influenced by biotic or abiotic factors; Use of marker genes and isotopes as examples for modern techniques in soil microbiology.

General ecology and biosociology --- bodembescherming --- General microbiology --- Pedology --- ecologie --- microbiologie --- bodemkunde --- Soil microbiology. --- Sols --- Microbiologie --- Bodemkunde --- Soil biology. --- Soil ecology. --- Soil. --- Soil microbiology --- Ecology --- Agriculture - General --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Biology --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Environment. --- Microbial ecology. --- Microbiology. --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Natural history --- Soil micro-organisms --- Soil microorganisms --- Soils --- Microbiology --- Soil biology --- Soilborne plant diseases --- Bacteriology --- Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Environmental microbiology --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Earth sciences

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This book reports on developments in Proximal Soil Sensing (PSS) and high resolution digital soil mapping. PSS has become a multidisciplinary area of study that aims to develop field-based techniques for collecting information on the soil from close by, or within, the soil. Amongst others, PSS involves the use of optical, geophysical, electrochemical, mathematical and statistical methods. This volume, suitable for undergraduate course material and postgraduate research, brings together ideas and examples from those developing and using proximal sensors and high resolution digital soil maps for applications such as precision agriculture, soil contamination, archaeology, peri-urban design and high land-value applications, where there is a particular need for high spatial resolution information. The book in particular covers soil sensor sampling, proximal soil sensor development and use, sensor calibrations, prediction methods for large data sets, applications of proximal soil sensing, and high-resolution digital soil mapping. Key themes: soil sensor sampling – soil sensor calibrations – spatial prediction methods – reflectance spectroscopy – electromagnetic induction and electrical resistivity – radar and gamma radiometrics – multi-sensor platforms – high resolution digital soil mapping - applications Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel is a scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia. Alex McBratney is Pro-Dean and Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture Food & Natural Resources at the University of Sydney in Australia. Budiman Minasny is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Agriculture Food & Natural Resources at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Environment. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Environmental sciences. --- Physical geography. --- Remote sensing. --- Geographical information systems. --- Soil conservation. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Géographie physique --- Télédétection --- Systèmes d'information --- Sols --- Noms géographiques --- Conservation --- Soils --- Digital soil mapping --- Remote sensing --- Propriété physicochimique du sol --- soil chemicophysical properties --- Relevé (des données) --- surveying --- Capteur --- Sensors --- Traitement d'images --- Image processing --- Spectrométrie --- Spectrometry --- Radar --- Système d'information géographique --- Geographical information systems --- Méthode statistique --- Statistical methods --- Digital soil mapping. --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Soil Science --- Soil Science (General) --- Agriculture -- Remote sensing. --- Soils -- Remote sensing. --- Agriculture - General --- Ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture --- Soil Science (General). --- Predictive soil mapping --- Earth (Soils) --- Mold, Vegetable --- Mould, Vegetable --- Soil --- Vegetable mold --- Earth sciences. --- Sedimentology. --- Geophysics. --- Soil science. --- Earth Sciences. --- Soil mapping --- Agricultural resources --- Plant growing media --- Regolith --- Land capability for agriculture --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Petrology --- Geography --- Control --- Prevention --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Soils - Remote sensing

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This book focuses on how hydrogeophysical methods can be applied to solve problems facing environmental engineers, geophysicists, agronomists, hydrologists, soil scientists and hydrogeologists. We present applications of hydrogeophysical methods to the understanding of hydrological processes and environmental problems dealing with the flow of water and the transport of solutes and contaminants. The majority of the book is organized as a series of process-driven chapters, each authored by leading experts. Areas covered include: infiltration and solute transport processes, biogeochemical functioning of soil-water systems, coastal groundwater interactions, cold region hydrology, engineered barriers and landfill processes. In addition, the book offers insight into the development of new data fusion methodologies, of value to many hydrogeophysical investigations, and provides an account how the rapidly developing self-potential technique can give valuable information about water fluxes and hydrochemical states within the subsurface.

Geophysics --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Soil pollution. Soil purification --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Pedology --- geophysics --- bodemkunde --- hydrologie --- verontreiniging --- bodembescherming --- milieutechnologie --- geofysica --- Groundwater --- Soil pollution --- Hydrogeology --- Eau souterraine --- Sols --- Hydrogéologie --- Géophysique --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Pollution --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B --- Eaux souterraines --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Physical geography. --- Soil conservation. --- Environmental pollution. --- Hydrogeology. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Environmental Physics. --- Terrestrial Pollution. --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Geography --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Environmental aspects --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Hydrology. --- Geophysics. --- Soil science. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental science --- Science --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Physics --- Aquatic sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Hydrogeophysics --- Groundwater contamination --- Improved risk assessment --- NATO