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Essentials of Soil Science

By Winfried Blum

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Essentials of Soil Science

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This book is a concise, yet comprehensive modern introduction to soil science and describes the development of soils, their characteristics and their material composition as well as their functions in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Soil functions include the delivery of goods and services for the human society, such as food, clean water, and the maintenance of biodiversity. The book is profusely illustrated with many coloured figures and tables to accompany the text and ease its understanding. Particularly the chapter on soil classification, based on the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB), features numerous colour pictures of typical soil profiles to facilitate understanding the characteristics of particular soil types. Chapters on soil protection and remediation and soil monitoring and the history of soil sciences conclude the book together with a very comprehensive alphabetical index, allowing for a quick and easy orientation about the most important terms in soil sciences. The book addresses all those, who want to orient themselves about soils, their functions, their importance in terrestrial and aquatic environments and their contribution to the actual and future development of the human society, such as teachers, practitioners and students in the fields of agriculture, forestry, gardening, terrestrial and aquatic ecology and environmental engineering, and of course, beginning students of soil science. For classroom use, we offer classroom sets of 10 copies and 20 copies which you may order through your bookstore or directly online by following the respective link.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
171
Release Date:
2018-01-08
Publication Date:
2018-01-08
Publisher:
Borntraeger Gebrueder
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3443010903
ISBN13:
9783443010904
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
384 g
Height:
172 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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