Humberto Blanco

Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services A comprehensive resource on cover crops and their role in soil ecosystems Cover crops are a reemerging strategy to improve and maintain the services that soils provide. They can have an enormous affect on agricultural outcomes, preventing soil erosion, restoring vital soil nutrients, sequestering C from the atmosphere, and more. The successful management and use of cover crops is therefore critical to ensure soil ecosystem services are maintained or improved not only to meet our demands for food, fuel, fiber, and feed but also to reduce pollution and improve the soil. Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services provides a heavily researched and highly readable introduction to cover crops and their role in soil ecosystems. It ranges from a detailed discussion of cover crop biomass production to a thorough treatment of soil ecosystems and their vulnerabilities. The result is an essential guide to a critical area of agricultural science. Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services readers will also find: * Detailed treatment of cover crop biomass production, soil erosion, greenhouse gas fluxes, nitrate leaching, soil C sequestration, and more * Discussion of emerging issues, including extreme weather events and the economics of cover crop farming * Wide-ranging summaries of interdisciplinary soil and cover crop research Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services is a useful reference for students and researchers at all levels of study relating to cover crop agriculture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780891186410
• Artikelnr.: 68165190

Autorenporträt

Humberto Blanco is Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Overview of Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services

Chapter 2. Cover Crop Biomass Production

Chapter 3. Soil Environment

Chapter 4. Water Erosion

Chapter 5. Wind Erosion

Chapter 6. Nutrient Losses: Algal Bloom and Anoxia

Chapter 7. Soil Gas Emissions

Chapter 8. Carbon Sequestration

Chapter 9. Soil Water

Chapter 10. Weed Management

Chapter 11. Nutrient Management

Chapter 12. Crop Yields

Chapter 13. Grazing and Harvesting

Chapter 14. Economics

Chapter 15. Adaptation to Climatic Fluctuations

Chapter 16. Opportunities, Challenges, and Future of Cover Crops