Function of Soils for Human Societies and the Environment
Product code: SP266
Print publication date: 09/01/2007
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Resources and Economic Geology, Soils, Reduced while stocks last
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862392076
Author/Edited by: Edited by E Frossard, W E H Blum and B P Warkentin
Weight: 0.83kg
Number of pages: 208
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/266/1
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Special Publication 266
Earth sciences are becoming ever more concerned with how their disciplines, their research and teaching, need to become directly related to environmental and social concerns. The biology of the surface layers and at depth is increasingly important in the geosciences. A knowledge of biological and physical-chemical functions in terrestrial ecosystems (such as biomass production, filtering, buffering and transformation, water routing, and maintenance of biodiversity) that are studied in soil science provides a background for Earth sciences.
The papers in this volume address issues of soil formation, soil management, soil protection and the role of biodiversity that must be considered for a sustainable soil use. The papers are aimed at geoscientists in the broadest sense, and others concerned with soil use who will also find chapters relevant to their interests. Soils knowledge used within other Earth sciences is essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems, for the solutions of problems in environmental quality and for sustainable use of soils by humans.
Soil, human society and the environment, W E H Blum, B P Warkentin and E Frossard
Functions, services, and value of soil organic matter for human societies and the environment: a historical perspective, C Feller, R J Manlay, M J Swift and M Bernoux
Soils and greenhouse gases, J Leifeld
Soil as an important interface between agricultural activities and groundwater: leaching of nutrients and pesticides in the vadose zone, L F Bergstrom and F Djodjic
Understanding of a soil system derived from a single bed-rock for improved vineyard management in southern France, M Dosso, O Philippon and A Ruellan
Heavy metals in Swiss forest soils: modification of lithogenic and anthropogenic contents by pedogenetic processes and implications for ecological risk assessment, J Luster, S Zimmermann, C Zwicky, P Lienemann and P Blaser
Reuse of agricultural drainage water in central California: Photosustainability in soil with high levels of salinity and toxic trace elements, G S Banuelos and Z Q Lin
The effects of agricultural practices on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, J Jansa, A Wiemken and E Frossard
Soil sealing and soil properties related to sealing, W Burghardt
Cultural soilscapes, E C Wells
From agricultural geology to hydropedology: forging links within the twenty-first-century geoscience community, E R Landa
Australian examples of the role of soils in environmental problems, P A Hazelton
Policies for a sustainable use of soil resources, L Montanarella
Assessing anthropogenic inputs to soils by comparing element contents and their spatial distribution in O- and A-horizons, M Inácio, V Pereira and M Pinto
Nutrient balances for improving the use of non-renewable resources: experiences from Switzerland and Southeast Asia, H Menzi and P Gerber
Perspectives on the relationship between soil science and geology, F C Ugolini and B P Warkentin
