Interdisciplinary Aspects of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Aspects of Agriculture, Soils & Soil Management in Agriculture, Geochemistry
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Overview
A single-source reference to biochemical cycles in soil, emphasizing basic principles and naturally occurring reactions. Presents all major aspects of nutrient cycling, including fluxes with other ecosystems, biochemical pathways and transformations, gains and losses, chemical fixation reactions, and plant availability. Environmental issues are integrated into the classical treatment of cycling processes. Two chapters are devoted exclusively to pollution of the environment. Surveys such topics as management of crop residues and maintenance of soil organic matter, use of soil for disposal of organic wastes, biological nitrogen fixation, denitrification, efficiency of fertilizer nitrogen use by plants, nitrates in food and water, chemistry and fate of phosphorus and sulfur and behavior of trace elements.Book Details
Published
January 29, 1986
Publisher
New York : Wiley, c1986.
Pages
400
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780471822189