Handbook of Soil Acidity

by Zdenko Rengel (Editor)

Overview

This handbook offers effective strategies to modify and adjust crop production processes to decrease the toxicity of soil contaminants, balance soil pH, improve root growth and nutrient uptake, and increase agricultural yield. The Handbook of Soil Acidity provides methods to, measure soil acidity, determine the major causes of soil acidification, c

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135546151
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	01/17/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Zdenko Rengel is Professor and Head of the Soil Science and Plant Nutrition Department University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. The author or editor of over 160 journal articles and book chapters, and three books, including the Handbook of Plant Growth (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), he is section editor of Plant and Soil, the Journal of Plant Nutrition, and the Journal of Crop Production. A member of the International Plant Nutrition Council and the Western Australia Advisory Committee for Management of Soil Acidity, among other organizations, he received the B.Sc. degree (1980) in biology and the M.Sc. degree (1984) in cell biology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the Ph.D. degree in agronomy/botany from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Table of Contents

Preface, Contributors, 1. Soil Acidification: The World Story, 2. Role of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Cycles in Soil Acidification, 3. Role of Plant Cation/Anion Uptake Ratio in Soil Acidification, 4. Acid Inputs into the Soils from Acid Rain, 5. Quantifying the Acid Balance for Broad-Acre Agricultural Systems, 6. Modeling Acidification Processes in Agricultural Systems, 7. Using Geographic Information Systems (GISs) in Soil Acidification Risk Assessments, 8. Micro-and Macroscale Heterogeneity of Soil Acidity, 9. Measurements of H+ Fluxes and Concentrations in the Rhizosphere, 10. Toxic Elements in Acid Soils: Chemistry and Measurement, 11. Using Lime to Ameliorate Topsoil and Subsoi1 Acidity, 12. Role of Organic Matter in Alleviating Soild Acidity, 13. Fertility Management of Tropical Acid Soil for Sustainable Crop Production, 14. Role of the Genotype in Tolerance to Acidity and Aluminum Toxicity, 15. Managing Soil Acidification Through Crop Rotations in Southern Australia, 16. Managing Acidification and Acidity in Forest Soils, 17. Role of pH in Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils, Index