Advances in Agronomy
- 1st Edition, Volume 76 - January 29, 2002
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Donald L. Sparks
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 1 3 6 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 4 0 2 - 1
Advances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture. The Science Citation Index, 1986, reports an impact factor over 2,459 and a cited… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture. The Science Citation Index, 1986, reports an impact factor over 2,459 and a cited half-life over 10 years.Volume 76 contains five excellent reviews on topics of great interest to crop and soil scientists as well as others in various fields. Chapter 1 is concerned with the potential of tropical soils to sequester carbon. Topics that are covered include soil inorganic and organic pools and dynamics, loss of soil organic pools from tropical soils, and potential for C sequestration in tropical soils. Chapter 2 covers the applications of crop/soil simulation models in tropical agricultural systems. Chapter 3 deals with interorganismal signaling in suboptimum environments with emphasis on legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Chapter 4 discusses the surface chemistry and function of microbial biofilms. The authors discuss biofilm formation and matrix architecture and general features and properties. Chapter 5 deals with vegetable crop scheduling and prediction. Topics that are covered include identification of stages of growth and development and experimental approaches for developing scheduling and prediction models.
Advances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture. The Science Citation Index, 1986, reports an impact factor over 2,459 and a cited half-life over 10 years.
Volume 76 contains five excellent reviews on topics of great interest to crop and soil scientists as well as others in various fields. Chapter 1 is concerned with the potential of tropical soils to sequester carbon. Topics that are covered include soil inorganic and organic pools and dynamics, loss of soil organic pools from tropical soils, and potential for C sequestration in tropical soils. Chapter 2 covers the applications of crop/soil simulation models in tropical agricultural systems. Chapter 3 deals with interorganismal signaling in suboptimum environments with emphasis on legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Chapter 4 discusses the surface chemistry and function of microbial biofilms. The authors discuss biofilm formation and matrix architecture and general features and properties. Chapter 5 deals with vegetable crop scheduling and prediction. Topics that are covered include identification of stages of growth and development and experimental approaches for developing scheduling and prediction models.
Volume 76 contains five excellent reviews on topics of great interest to crop and soil scientists as well as others in various fields. Chapter 1 is concerned with the potential of tropical soils to sequester carbon. Topics that are covered include soil inorganic and organic pools and dynamics, loss of soil organic pools from tropical soils, and potential for C sequestration in tropical soils. Chapter 2 covers the applications of crop/soil simulation models in tropical agricultural systems. Chapter 3 deals with interorganismal signaling in suboptimum environments with emphasis on legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Chapter 4 discusses the surface chemistry and function of microbial biofilms. The authors discuss biofilm formation and matrix architecture and general features and properties. Chapter 5 deals with vegetable crop scheduling and prediction. Topics that are covered include identification of stages of growth and development and experimental approaches for developing scheduling and prediction models.
Professionals and students in the field of agronomy and plant, soil, and environmental sciences.
1. The Potential of Soils of the Tropics to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect -R. Lal
2. Applications of Crop/Soil Simulation Models in Tropical Agricultural Systems -Robin Matthews, William Stephens, Tim Hess, Tabitha Middleton, and Anil Graves
3. Interorganismal Signaling in Suboptimum Environments: The Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis -F. Zhang and D.L. Smith
4. Surface Chemistry and Function of Microbial Biofilms -M.A. Chappell and V.P. Evangelou
5. Crop Scheduling and Prediction-Principles and Opportunities with Field Vegetables -D.C.E. Wurr, J.R. Fellows, and K. Phelps
2. Applications of Crop/Soil Simulation Models in Tropical Agricultural Systems -Robin Matthews, William Stephens, Tim Hess, Tabitha Middleton, and Anil Graves
3. Interorganismal Signaling in Suboptimum Environments: The Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis -F. Zhang and D.L. Smith
4. Surface Chemistry and Function of Microbial Biofilms -M.A. Chappell and V.P. Evangelou
5. Crop Scheduling and Prediction-Principles and Opportunities with Field Vegetables -D.C.E. Wurr, J.R. Fellows, and K. Phelps
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 76
- Published: January 29, 2002
- No. of pages (eBook): 241
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124013629
- eBook ISBN: 9780080544021
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Donald L. Sparks
DONALD L. SPARKS is the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Francis Alison Professor at the University of Delaware. He is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of kinetics of biogeochemical processes and surface chemistry of natural materials. His research has focused on fate and transport of trace metals in soil and water, soil remediation, water quality, and carbon sequestration in soils. Dr. Sparks is the author of two previous editions of Environmental Soil Chemistry and more than 350 refereed papers and book chapters. He is fellow of five scientific societies, and he has been the recipient of major awards and lectureships including the Geochemistry Medal from the American Chemical Society, the Liebig Medal from the International Union of Soil Sciences, the Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal from the European Geosciences Union. Dr. Sparks served as president of the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, has served on advisory committees for several national laboratories and national and international centers and institutes, and served as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Soil Sciences and other NAS Committees.
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Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USARead Advances in Agronomy on ScienceDirect