Soil hides most of the time, but it’s important. Dig into the layers of soil and learn how it is made. Find out how soil helps plants and other living things thrive. Are you ready to get your hands dirty?
In this book, Richard Bardgett discusses soil and the many, and sometimes surprising, ways that humanity has depended on it throughout history, and still does today.
This book demonstrates how minerals, trace elements, organic matter, soil organisms and fertilizers affect soil, plant and animal health.
Discusses the properties of soil, how it is formed, and why it is vital to survival on earth.
A scientist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change
This 7-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations.
Graham, R. C., W. R. Guertal, and K. R. Tice. 1994. The pedologic nature of weathered rock. In D. L. Cremeens et al., eds. Whole Regolith Pedology. Spec. Publ. 34. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, pp. 21–40.
This is the second edition of a book first published in 1989 and now thoroughly rewritten to focus on soil ecology and environmental issues.
This book is not another fanciful guide on how to continuously manipulate and amend your soil to try and keep it productive. This book will change the way you think about and manage your soil. It may even change your life.
This open access book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States.
Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, deals in general with the structure and function of agroecosystems at different levels of resolution.