Soil Health and Intensification of Agroecosystems
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-805317-1 (ISBN)
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.
Mahdi Al-Kaisi is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Agronomy, at Iowa State University. He has over 30 years of research and outreach expertise in the area of soil carbon dynamics and the interaction of climate and agriculture production systems. His research focuses on the effects of crops and tillage systems, crop residue, cover crops, and nitrogen application on soil carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions, and ecosystem services. As a result of his research, he developed many management tools such as soil carbon index for soils in Iowa, erosion and residue calculators. Dr. Al-Kaisi is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, the Soil Science Society of America, and Soil and Water Conservation Society. Birl Lowery is an Emeritus Professor of Soil Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). He held positions ranging from Assistant Professor to Professor from 1980 to 2014 at UW-Madison, and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences from 2010 to 2013. In 1973 he obtained a B.S. degree in Agricultural Education from Alcorn University, an M.A. degree in Agricultural Engineering in 1975 from Mississippi State University, and Ph.D. in Soil Physics in 1980 from Oregon State University. His area of research was applied soil physics, which included research on soil temperature and water regimes, erosion, compaction, contaminant flow in soil, and groundwater quality. He and his students and colleagues published their research findings extensively in a wide range of journals, proceedings, popular press, and book chapters. He has served as Associate Editor for numerous journals over his career.
1. Fundamentals and Functions of Soil Environment
2. Climate Variability Effects on Agriculture Land Use and Soil Services
3. Soil Health Concerns Facing Dryland Agroecosystems
4. Conservation Agriculture Systems to Mitigate Climate Variability Effects on Soil Health
5. Conventional Agricultural Production Systems and Soil Functions
6. Integration of Annual and Perennial Cover Crops for Improving Soil Health
7. Perennial-Based Agricultural Systems and Livestock Impact on Soil and Ecological Services
8. Intensified Agroecosystems and Their Effects on Soil Biodiversity and Soil Functions
9. Intensified Agroecosystems and Changes in Soil Carbon Dynamics
10. Agroecosystem Net Primary Productivity and Carbon Footprint
11. Nutrient Cycling and Soil Biology in Row Crop Systems under Intensive Tillage
12. Row-Crop Production Practices Effects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
13. Low-Input and Intensified Crop Production Systems Effects on Soil Health and Environment
14. Agroforestry Practices and Soil Ecosystem Services
15. Targeted Use of Perennial Grass Biomass Crops in and Around Annual Crop Production Fields to Improve Soil Health
16. Biotechnology Impacts on Soil and Environmental Services
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2017 |
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| Verlagsort | San Diego |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-12-805317-8 / 0128053178 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-805317-1 / 9780128053171 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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