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Status of the Worlds Soil Resources
Goal of this guide is to make clear these essential connections between human well-being and the soil, and to provide a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured.
Author(s): Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
648 Pages 
The purpose of this web resource is to provide fundamental concepts for managing nutrients in tropical soils and container crop production. Topics covered includes: Soil composition, Soil profile Factors that cause differences in soil behavior and performance, Goals of Modern Nutrient Management, Soil-Nutrient Relationships, Soil Acidity and Liming, Essential Nutrients, Soil Fertility Evaluation, Fertilizer Material, Fertilizer Placement.
Author(s): The University of Hawai
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Land Degradation and Desertification
This book is organized into two sections. The first section covers three major aspects, viz., an understanding of patterns of land degradation and desertification for developing mitigation strategies, land-atmosphere interaction from response of land cover to climate change effects of Karst rocky desertification. The last section dwells on the relationship between soil degradation and crop production and an examination on how land degradation impacts the quality of soil in communal rangelands.
Author(s): Abiud Kaswamila
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This class presents the application of principles of soil mechanics. It considers the following topics: the origin and nature of soils; soil classification; the effective stress principle; hydraulic conductivity; stress-strain-strength behavior of cohesionless and cohesive soils and application to lateral earth stresses; bearing capacity and slope stability; consolidation theory and settlement analysis; and laboratory and field methods for evaluation of soil properties in design practice.
Author(s): Prof. Charles Ladd and Dr. Lucy C. Jen
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Status of the Worlds Soil Resources
Goal of this guide is to make clear these essential connections between human well-being and the soil, and to provide a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured.
Author(s): Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
648 Pages
This book explains the following topics: Soil Physics - Solids, Water, Heat, Soil aeration, solute transportation, Effects of cattle grazing on soils in coniferous forests, Soil Chemistry: Ion adsorption and exchange, Soil organic matter, Soil Biology - Soil organisms, Physiology and environment of soil organisms, Soil Fertility - Soil as a source of plant nutrients and Nutrient cycles.
Author(s): The University of British Columbia
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This volume is designed to be a complete manual for all but amateur cultivators. The object of this volume is to condense, and present in an intelligible form, all important established facts in the science of soil-culture. The author claims originality, as to the discovery of facts and principles, in but few cases.
Author(s): J. H. Walden
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