Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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
Book Title: Soil and Recycling Management in the Anthropocene Era
Editors: Gero Benckiser
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51886-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51885-1Published: 16 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51888-2Published: 17 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51886-8Published: 15 March 2021
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 172
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nature Conservation, Biogeosciences, Microbiology, Agriculture, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Landscape Ecology