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Soil management --- Soils
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Volume 183 comprises five timely chapters that will be of interest to the readership. Chapter 1 presents a timely review on soil security and how to strategize for the future. In Chapter 2, John Ryan, a distinguished soil scientist, provides a thoughtful and interesting reflection on his career in the Middle East. Chapter 3 covers biodegradable plastics as alternatives for polyethylene mulch films. Chapter 4 discusses biosensing technology interventions for the determination of nitrate and nitrite contamination in the environment and in foods. Chapter 5 provides a review on the use of microbial fertilization as an alternative to synthetic chemical fertilization in present-day farming.
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Soil Health and Intensification of Agroecosystems examines the climate, environmental, and human effects on agroecosystems and how the existing paradigms must be revised in order to establish sustainable production. The increased demand for food and fuel exerts tremendous stress on all aspects of natural resources and the environment to satisfy an ever increasing world population, which includes the use of agriculture products for energy and other uses in addition to human and animal food. The book presents options for ecological systems that mimic the natural diversity of the ecosystem and can have significant effect as the world faces a rapidly changing and volatile climate. The book explores the introduction of sustainable agroecosystems that promote biodiversity, sustain soil health, and enhance food production as ways to help mitigate some of these adverse effects. New agroecosystems will help define a resilient system that can potentially absorb some of the extreme shifts in climate. Changing the existing cropping system paradigm to utilize natural system attributes by promoting biodiversity within production agricultural systems, such as the integration of polycultures, will also enhance ecological resiliency and will likely increase carbon sequestration.
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