Advances in Agronomy
- 1st Edition, Volume 178 - February 8, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Donald L. Sparks
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 2 6 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 2 6 1 - 6
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 178 contains a variety of updates and advances in agronomy, including chapters in this new release that cover Agroecological crop protection for sustai… Read more
Purchase options
Institutional subscription on ScienceDirect
Request a sales quoteAdvances in Agronomy, Volume 178 contains a variety of updates and advances in agronomy, including chapters in this new release that cover Agroecological crop protection for sustainable agriculture, The challenge in estimating soil compressive strength for use in risk assessment of soil compaction in field traffic, Drought, salt, and combined stresses in plants: Effects, tolerance mechanisms, and strategies, Soil inorganic carbon, the other and equally important soil carbon pool: Distribution, controlling factors, and the impact of climate change, and Improving nitrogen use efficiency and reducing nitrogen surplus through best fertilizer nitrogen management in cereal production: The case of India and China.
- Includes numerous, timely, state-of-the-art reviews on the latest advancements in agronomy
- Features distinguished, well recognized authors from around the world
- Builds upon this venerable and iconic review series
- Covers the extensive variety and breadth of subject matter in the crop and soil sciences
Scientists and practitioners in academe, government, and industry and students in an array of fields including crop and soil sciences, agronomy, plant biology, and environmental sciences
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Agroecological crop protection for sustainable agriculture
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Agroecological crop protection as an ambitious scientific field
- 3: Agroecological crop protection as an orderly strategy of best agronomic and landscape practices
- 4: Agroecological crop protection promoting social interactions among agricultural stakeholders
- 5: Research approaches to agroecological crop protection
- 6: Agroecological crop protection research needs
- 7: Methodological breakthroughs in agroecological crop protection
- 8: Supporting farmers in the transition to agroecological crop protection
- 9: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Declarations
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter Two: The challenge in estimating soil compressive strength for use in risk assessment of soil compaction in field traffic
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Soil precompression stress
- 3: Methodological approach
- 4: Results
- 5: Discussion of results
- 6: Perspectives and outlook
- 7: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Three: Drought, salt, and combined stresses in plants: Effects, tolerance mechanisms, and strategies
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Effects of combined water and salt stress on leaf physiologies
- 3: Mechanisms underlying morphological adaptations and physiological responses under combined stress
- 4: Mitigation and management strategies for improving water use efficiency and yield under stress combination
- 5: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Four: Soil inorganic carbon, the other and equally important soil carbon pool: Distribution, controlling factors, and the impact of climate change
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Soil inorganic carbon forms
- 3: SIC controlling factors
- 4: Vertical distribution of soil inorganic carbon
- 5: Global distribution of SIC and examples from different countries
- 6: A review of digital mapping of SIC stocks
- 7: SIC and SOC relationships
- 8: Human influence and climate-change effects on SIC
- 9: Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- References
- Chapter Five: Improving nitrogen use efficiency and reducing nitrogen surplus through best fertilizer nitrogen management in cereal production: The case of India and China
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Data sources and processing
- 3: Major fertilizer management practices and their effect on N use efficiency in India and China
- 4: Maximum N output in harvested yield under saturating N input regimes and N use efficiency in rice, wheat, and maize in India and China
- 5: Improvement in N use efficiency and cereal yield gains through site-specific and other fertilizer N management practices
- 6: Economic and environmental benefits of improved N use efficiency and crop yield
- 7: Overview of current agricultural schemes and fertilizer policies and their effect on N use efficiency
- 8: Recommendations on appropriate agricultural schemes, fertilizer policies, and institutional arrangement toward achieving higher N use efficiency
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 178
- Published: February 8, 2023
- No. of pages (Hardback): 316
- No. of pages (eBook): 316
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443192609
- eBook ISBN: 9780443192616
DS
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USARead Advances in Agronomy on ScienceDirect