Advances in measuring soil health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Otten, Wilfred

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Soil health is an equivocal concept that takes on different meanings depending on the application and the investigator. The proposed content of this comprehensive volume will give more meaning to 'soil health', bringing together a range of measurement approaches, modelling and decision support tools, with an ultimate aim to improve soils."
Professor Paul Hallett, University of Aberdeen, UK

Understanding and measuring the different dimensions of soil health is key to achieving regenerative agriculture. There has been a wealth of research on developing better analytical techniques to measure the biological, physical and chemical properties of soils.

Advances in measuring soil health reviews these developments and their implications for better management of farm soils. The volume begins by reviewing advances in measuring soil biological activity such as earthworms and fungi as indicators of soil health. The collection also surveys developments in measuring soil physical properties through advances in visual, imaging and geophysical techniques, as well as the methods used to measure chemical properties such as soil organic carbon. It concludes by looking at how measurement can be translated into farming practice through soil health indicators and decision support systems.

With its distinguished editor and expert authors, Advances in measuring soil health will be a standard reference for university and other researchers in soil and crop science, government and other agencies responsible for the health of agricultural soils, companies providing soil monitoring services, and farmers wishing to know more about the latest developments in soil monitoring.

Dr Wilfred Otten is Professor of Soil Biophysics at Cranfield University, UK. He was the President of the British Soil Science Society (2017-2018), and is a Fellow of the Institute of Soil Science. Professor Otten is internationally-renowned for his research on measuring and modelling physical, chemical and microbial processes in soil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786764287
• Artikelnr.: 62058226

Autorenporträt

Dr Wilfred Otten is Professor of Soil Biophysics at Cranfield University, UK. He was the President of the British Soil Science Society (2017-2018), and is a Fellow of the Institute of Soil Science. Professor Otten is internationally-renowned for his research on measuring and modelling physical, chemical and microbial processes in soil.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Measuring soil biological activity
1.Assessing soil health by measuring fauna: Felicity Crotty, Royal
Agricultural University, UK;
2.Quantifying earthworm species as indicators of soil health: Jackie
Stroud, Rothamsted Research, UK;
3.Quantification of fungi and fungal traits in soil: Andy Taylor, James
Hutton Institute, UK;
Part 2 Measuring soil physical and chemical properties
4.Advances in visual techniques to assess soil structure: Mansonia Pulido,
Aarhus University, Denmark;
5.Imaging soil structure to measure soil functions and soil health: Sasha
Kravchenko, Michigan State University, USA;
6.Geophysical methods to assess soil physical conditions: Richard Whalley,
Rothamsted Research, UK;
7.Advances in techniques to assess soil erodibility: Jane Rickson,
Cranfield University, UK;
8.Advances in measuring mechanical properties of soils in relation to soil
health: Muhammad Naveed, University of West London, UK;
9.Advances in instrumental techniques to assess soil chemistry: Francisco
Calderon, USDA-ARS, USA;
10.Spectral mapping of soil organic carbon: Bas van Wesemael, Université
Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;
Part 3 From measurement to management
11.Developing soil health indicators for improved farm soil management:
Elizabeth Stockdale, Head of Farming Systems - NIAB, UK;
12.Developing decision support systems for farm, soil management: Matt
Aitkenhead, James Hutton Institute, UK;