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Plant-parasitic nematodes are one of multiple causes of soil-related sub-optimal crop performance. This book integrates soil health and sustainable agriculture with nematode ecology and suppressive services provided by the soil food web to provide holistic solutions. Biological control is an important component of all nematode management programmes, and with a particular focus on integrated soil biology management, this book describes tools available to farmers to enhance the activity of natural enemies, and utilize soil biological processes to reduce losses from nematodes.

Plant nematodes --- Soil management.

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This book provides an in-depth exploration of the STICS soil-crop model, a sophisticated tool designed to simulate cropping systems. It offers a comprehensive conceptual framework, equations, and practical applications of the model, which integrates soil and crop processes to assist in agricultural management and decision-making. The book covers various aspects of the model, including plant phenology, growth dynamics, nutrient uptake, yield formation, and interactions with environmental factors such as climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. It aims to aid researchers, agricultural scientists, and policymakers in understanding and optimizing crop management practices. The authors discuss the evolution of cropping systems models, emphasizing their role in addressing contemporary agricultural challenges.

Agricultural systems. --- Soil management.

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Agricultural engineering --- Agronomy --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Soil management

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Deserts --- Morphogenesis --- climate --- human population --- Soil management

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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.

Soil biology. --- Soil management. --- Soils and nutrition.