Author by: Daniel HillelLanguange: enPublisher by: ElsevierFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 27Total Download: 157File Size: 44,8 MbDescription: Environmental Soil Physics is a completely updated and modified edition of the Daniel Hillels previous, successful books, Introduction to Soil Physics and Fundamentals of Soil Physics. Hillel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, one of the true leaders in the field of environmental sciences. The new version includes a chapter and problems on computational techniques, addresses current environmental concerns and trends. Author by: Daniel HillelLanguange: enPublisher by: ElsevierFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 24Total Download: 553File Size: 43,9 MbDescription: Part 1: Basic relationships; Soil physics and soil physical characteristics; Water properties in relation to porous media. Part 2: The solid phase; Particle sizes, shapes, and specific surface; Clay, the colloidal component; Soil structure and aggregation.
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Part 6: The field water cycle; Water entry into soil; Surface runoff and water erosion; Redistribution and retention of soil moisture; Groundwater drainage and pollution; Evaporation from bare soil and wind erosion. Part 7: Soil-plant-water relations; Plant uptake of soil moisture; Water balance and energy balance in the field; Irrigation and water-use efficiency. Author by: David MasonLanguange: enPublisher by: Rico PublicationsFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 9Total Download: 192File Size: 53,9 MbDescription: 5,600 Exam Prep questions and answers. Ebooks, Textbooks, Courses, Books Simplified as questions and answers by Rico Publications.
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Author by: David MasonLanguange: enPublisher by: Rico PublicationsFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 21Total Download: 751File Size: 40,5 MbDescription: 5,600 Exam Prep questions and answers. Ebooks, Textbooks, Courses, Books Simplified as questions and answers by Rico Publications. Very effective study tools especially when you only have a limited amount of time. They work with your textbook or without a textbook and can help you to review and learn essential terms, people, places, events, and key concepts. Author by: Daniel HillelLanguange: enPublisher by: ElsevierFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 13Total Download: 943File Size: 52,9 MbDescription: Soil in the Environment is key for every course in soil science, earth science, and environmental disciplines. This textbook engages students to critically look at soil as the central link in the function and creation of the terrestrial environment.
For the first time, Dr. Hillel brilliantly discusses soils as a natural body that is engaged in dynamic interaction with the atmosphere above and the strata below that influences the planet's climate and hydrological cycle, and serves as the primary habitat for a versatile community of living organisms. The book offers a larger perspective of soil’s impact on the environment by organizing chapters among three main processes: Physical, Chemical, and Biology. It is organized in a student-friendly format with examples, discussion boxes, and key definitions in every chapter. The book provides students of geology, physical science, and environmental studies with fundamental information and tools for meeting the natural resource challenges of the 21st century, while providing students of soil science and ecology with the understanding of physical and biological interactions necessary for sustainability. First textbook to unite soil science and the environment beyond what is traditionally taught Incorporates current knowledge of such hot topics as climate change, pollution control, human expropriation of natural resources, and the prospects for harmonious and sustainable development Organized in a student-friendly format with examples, discussion boxes, and key definitions in every chapter Full color throughout. Author by: Kim H.
TanLanguange: enPublisher by: CRC PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 69Total Download: 543File Size: 48,6 MbDescription: Completely revised and updated, incorporating almost a decade’s worth of developments in this field, Environmental Soil Science, Third Edition, explores the entire reach of the subject, beginning with soil properties and reactions and moving on to their relationship to environmental properties and reactions. Keeping the organization and writing style that made previous editions bestsellers, the author addresses the definitions of environmental science, ecology, and soil science, underscoring their combination into environmental soil science. The book highlights the live biological constituents that make up the soil, exploring the changes made by agricultural operations and other human activities that lead to changes in the environment and our natural ecosystem. These include causes, effects, and solutions for acid rain, global warming, and destruction of the ozone layer.
The author also provides extensive coverage of soilless agriculture, hydroponics, fish farming, vanishing biodiversity due to the destruction of jungles and the rain forest, and what to do about it. Author by: Rattan LalLanguange: enPublisher by: CRC PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 74Total Download: 117File Size: 46,7 MbDescription: Principles of Soil Physics examines the impact of the physical, mechanical, and hydrological properties and processes of soil on agricultural production, the environment, and sustainable use of natural resources.
The text incorporates valuable assessment methods, graphs, problem sets, and tables from recent studies performed around the globe and offers an abundance of tables, photographs, and easy-to-follow equations in every chapter. The book discusses the consequences of soil degradation, such as erosion, inhibited root development, and poor aeration. It begins by defining soil physics, soil mechanics, textural properties, and packing arrangements. The text continues to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of soil structure and explain the significance and measurement of bulk density, porosity, and compaction. The authors proceed to clarify soil hydrology topics including hydrologic cycle, water movement, infiltration, modeling, soil evaporation, and solute transport processes.
They address the impact of soil temperature on crop growth, soil aeration, and the processes that lead to the emission of greenhouse gases. The final chapters examine the physical properties of gravelly soils and water movement in frozen, saline, and water-repellant soils.
Reader-friendly and up-to-date, Principles of Soil Physics provides unparalleled coverage of issues related to soil physics, structure, hydrology, aeration, temperature, and analysis and presents practical techniques for maintaining soil quality to ultimately preserve its sustainability. Author by: Wenceslau Geraldes TeixeiraLanguange: enPublisher by: SpringerFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 10Total Download: 615File Size: 46,8 MbDescription: The importance to preserve soil and water have is increasingly recognized. Agricultural practices and ecological trends both affect and are affected by soil physical properties. The more frequency of natural disasters, as landslides and thunderstorms addresses the importance to integrate soil characteristics in predictive models.
Soil physics research has grown considerably specially in the use of innovative sensors, soil databases, and modeling techniques have been introduced into soil water relationship and environmental monitoring. Those advances are thoroughly dispersed in articles and conference proceedings In this volume, the authors will bring together the effectiveness of many new field and lab sensors and examine the current state-of-the-art in modeling and data analysis.
It also includes innovative approaches and case studies in tropical soils. Future directions in soil physics research are given by key researchers in this discipline. Author by: William A. JuryLanguange: enPublisher by: John Wiley & SonsFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 39Total Download: 450File Size: 46,9 MbDescription: Soil solid phase. Characteristic of the primary particles.
Composite soil properties. Water retention in soil. Properties of water. Soil water content. Energy state of water in soil. Analysis of systems at equilibrium. Measurement of components of water potential.
Water characteristic function. Water movement in soil. Water flow under natural conditions. Spatial variability and transport. Field water balance.
Field measurement of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity. Soil thermal regime. Atmospheric energy balance. Soil surface energy balance. Heath flow in soil.
Soil aeration. Gas transport. Chemical transport in soil. Methods of analyzing spatial variations of soil properties. Author by: Daniel HillelLanguange: enPublisher by: Academic PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 78Total Download: 123File Size: 48,6 MbDescription: This book is a unified, condensed, and simplified version of the recently issued twin volumes, Fundamentals of Soil Physics and Applications of Soil Physics. Nonessential topics and complexities have been deleted, and little prior knowledge of the subject is assumed. An effort has been made to provide an elementary, readable, and self-sustaining description of the soil's physical properties and of the manner in which these properties govern the processes taking place in the field.
Consideration is given to the ways in which the soil's processes can be influenced, for better or for worse, by man. Sample problems are provided in an attempt to illustrate how the abstract principles embodied in mathematical equations can be applied in practice. The author hope that the present version will be more accessible to students than its precursors and that it might serve to arouse their interest in the vital science of soil physics.