Visual soil evaluation : realizing potential crop production with minimum environmental impact /
Contributor(s): Ball, Bruce C [editor.] | Munkholm, Lars J [editor.].
Publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CAB International, 2015Description: xi, 160 pages : ill., col. plates ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780644707; 1780644701; 9781780647456; 178064745X.Subject(s): Crops and soils | Soils -- Analysis | Soils -- Quality | Soil structure | Soil chemistryDDC classification: 631.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 631.4 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0064315 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Describing soils structures, rooting and biological activity and recognizing tillage effects, damage and recovery in clayey and sandy soils -- Assessing structural quality for crop performance and for agronomy (VESS, VSA, SOILpak, Profil Cultural, SubVESS) -- Reduction of yield gaps and improvement of ecological function through local-to-global applications of visual soil assessment -- Visual evaluation of grassland and arable management impacts on soil quality -- Choosing and evaluation soil improvements by subsoiling and compaction control -- Valuing the neglected : Lessons and methods from an organic, anthropic soil system in the outer hebrides -- Evaluating land quality for carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient leaching -- Soil structure under adverse weather/climate conditions -- The expanding discipline and role of visual soil evaluation.