Soil Constraints and Productivity

Nanthi Bolan, M. B. Kirkham, Nanthi Bolan, M. B. Kirkham

• Editorial: CRC Press
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000879292
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Biological Sciences
• Categoría: Botany

Identifying, interpreting, and managing soil constraints are major challenges, especially when multiple constraints occur in the same soil at various depth zones. Although amelioration tools and strategies are available to manage some of these constraints, field adoption of these technologies is a major challenge to the farming community. Soil Constraints and Productivity helps in identifying and understanding soil constraints, focusing on management practices to alleviate problems associated with these restrictions, and their impacts on crop productivity.

Soil Constraints and Productivity aims to:

• Describe various strategies suitable for mitigating soil constraints
• Provide data on cost-benefit analysis of managing soil constraints
• Provide case studies of managing soil constraints to increase productivity

Soil is essential for the doubling of major grain production proposed to be necessary to avoid major food security collapses in the future. This book will be a key resource for soil and environmental scientists, farmers, students majoring in agricultural and environmental sciences, and crop consultants.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Editors
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 Overview of Salinity in Arable Soils: Global Perspectives
• Chapter 2 Plant-Based Strategies for the Sustainable Management of Soil Contamination
• Chapter 3 Green and Sustainable Remediation as an Option to Manage and Recover Soil Polluted by Anthropogenic Activities
• Chapter 4 Trace Elements and the Sustainability of Agricultural Systems
• Chapter 5 Chromium Contamination in Soil from Mining Activities: A Constraint for Crop Production and Potential Mitigation Strategies
• Chapter 6 Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils: From Bioavailability to Productivity
• Chapter 7 Silent Alienation of Soils through Microplastic in the Anthropocene – A Constraint for Soil Productivity?
• Chapter 8 Elemental Loads with Phosphate Fertilizers: A Constraint for Soil Productivity?
• Chapter 9 Soil Crust: Formation, Influence on Soil Productivity, and Management
• Chapter 10 Hydrochar Production for Soil Environmental Improvement
• Chapter 11 Using Biochar-Based Nitrogen Fertilizers to Enhance the Productivity of Low Fertility Soils
• Chapter 12 Biochar for Sustainable Soils, Agriculture, and Climate Change Mitigation
• Chapter 13 Nutrient Depletion in Salt-Affected Soils and Yield Reduction
• Chapter 14 Use of Biochar for the Amelioration of Problem Soils
• Chapter 15 Use of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Remediating Soils Constrained by Metal(loid) Contamination
• Chapter 16 Endophytic Microbes for Sustainable Crop Production and Soil Health Maintenance in Toxic Trace Element-Contaminated Soil
• Chapter 17 Allelopathy: A Natural Factor Constraining or Supporting the Productivity of Soils?
• Chapter 18 Managing Multiple Constraints to Crop Production in Dispersive Soils
• Chapter 19 Sandy Soil Constraints: Organic and Clay Amendments to Improve the Productivity of Sandy Soils
• Chapter 20 Subsoil Acidity and Aluminum Toxicity: Measurement, Formation, and Management Strategies in Conservation Farming Systems
• Chapter 21 Management of Acid and Acid Sulfate Soils
• Chapter 22 Mapping and Modelling Soil Constraints
• Chapter 23 A Critique of the Language of ‘Constraints’ and Its Consequences for Soil Management
• Chapter 24 Soil Constraints on Ecosystem Productivity and Their Management in Oil Sands Reclamation
• Chapter 25 Organic Carbon Turnover as Affected by Agricultural Activities in a Semitropical Zone of China
• Chapter 26 Management of Soil Constraints in China with a Biochar Amendment: A Case Study in Paddy Fields in Subtropical China
• Chapter 27 Sugarcane Cultivation in Saline Soils of India
• Chapter 28 Soil Constraints and Management Options for Sustainable Rainfed Production Systems of India
• Chapter 29 Soil Salinity and Sodicity in India – Adaptation and Mitigation Options
• Chapter 30 Potassium in Soils of India: Strategies for Sustainable Crop Productivity, Food, and Nutritional Security
• Chapter 31 Assessment of the Soil Resources of Sub-Saharan Africa in Relation to Food Security: Perspectives Past, Present, and Future
• Chapter 32 Effects of Biochar Application on Subtropical Mudstone Soils in Taiwan
• Chapter 33 Cover Crops to Protect Soil during Winter in the Great Plains of the USA
• Index