Soil and Recycling Management in the Anthropocene Era
Editors: Benckiser, Gero (Ed.)
- Discusses the physicochemistry and biology of soils
- Describes how soils serve as historical records
- Provides organic and precision farming approaches for achieving plant demand-adapted fertilization
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This book discusses soil and recycling management in the Anthropocene era. Nitrogen shortage is one of nature’s most important productivity regulators, but since the advent of technical nitrogen fixation (TNF), biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) input has nearly doubled, particularly in grass and arable lands covering over 13 million km2 of the Earth’s surface. This book explores how monoculture grass, arable lands and forests are often over fertilized with TNF, animal slurries, sewage sludge, or municipally produced composts, and as a result, flora and fauna that have adapted to a nitrogen shortage in the soil will have to adjust to a surplus; those that are unable to adapt will disappear.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Soil and Recycling Management in the Anthropocene Era
- Editors
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- Gero Benckiser
- Series Title
- Environmental Science
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-51886-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-51886-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-51885-1
- Series ISSN
- 1431-6250
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 260
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
- Topics
