Visual Soil Evaluation: Realizing Potential Crop Production with Minimum Environmental Impact
- ISBN-10
- 1780644701
- ISBN-13
- 9781780644707
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10-23
- Publisher
- CABI
- Authors
- Bruce C. Ball, Lars J. Munkholm
Description
Visual Soil Evaluation (VSE) provides land users and environmental authorities with the tools to assess soil quality for crop performance. This book describes the assessment of the various structural conditions of soil, especially after quality degradation such as compaction, erosion or organic matter loss. Covering a broad range of land types from abandoned peats to prime arable land, this useful handbook assesses yield potential across a range of scales. It also appraises the use of VSE in determining the potential of different land types for carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient leaching, and for diagnosing and rectifying erosion and compaction in soils.
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