Tropical Soils
Properties and Management for Sustainable Agriculture
Published on 9. October 2003
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-511598-7 (ISBN)
Description
Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, deals in general with the structure and function of agroecosystems at different levels of resolution. In this text/reference, the authors describe in terms of agroecology the tropical environments of sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin and Central America, focusing on production and management systems unique to each region.
Reviews / Votes
"Juo and Franzluebbers offer an overview of the properties and management for sustainable soils in a worldwide geographical region defined by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. . .The text is easy to read and well illustrated with figures that contain source citations; and authors have woven through the pros and cons of impacts of intensive land use on soils in the tropics."--CHOICE, S. G. Shetron"For agricultural and environmental planners, extension workers, farmers, and academics, Juo and Franzluebbers explain the characteristics of tropical soils that they hope will discourage attempts to transplant food production systems from temperate regions and so turn lush ecosystems into anthrogenic deserts." -SciTech.
"Juo and Franzluebbers offer an overview of the properties and management for sustainable soils in a worldwide geographical region defined by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn...The text is easy to read and well illustrated with figures that contain source citations; and authors have woven through the pros and cons of impacts of intensive land use on soils in the tropics."--CHOICE, S. G. Shetron
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous figures, tables & halftones
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-511598-7 (9780195115987)
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Anthony S. R. Juo | Kathrin Franzluebbers
Tropical Soils
Properties and Management for Sustainable Agriculture
E-Book
09/2003
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€65.99
Available for download
Persons
Juo, Anthony S.R. (Professor of Soils and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA)
Content
1. Introduction ; 2. Mineralogy ; 3. Soil Chemistry ; 4. Soil Physics ; 5. Soil Biology and Microbiology ; 6. Soil Fertility ; 7. Soil Formation and Classification ; 8. Major Soils of the Tropics: A Descriptive Classification Based on Clay Mineralogy ; 9. Soil Management: An Overview ; 10. Properties and Management of Kaolinitic Soils ; 11. Properties and Management of Oxidic Soils ; 12. Properties and Management of Smectitic Soils ; 13. Properties and Management of Allophanic Soils ; 14. Soils and Sustainable Agriculture