EAN: 9783443010904

ESSENTIALS OF SOIL SCIENCE - WINFRIED E H BLUM ...

This book is a concise  yet comprehensive modern introduction to soil science and describes the
development of soils  their characteristics and their material composition as well as their
functions in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Soil functions include the delivery of goods
and services for the human society  such as food  clean water  and the maintenance of
biodiversity. The book is profusely illustrated with many coloured figures and tables to
accompany the text and ease its understanding. Particularly the chapter on soil classification
based on the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB)  features numerous colour pictures
of typical soil profiles to facilitate understanding the characteristics of particular soil
types. Chapters on soil protection and remediation and soil monitoring and the history of soil
sciences conclude the book together with a very comprehensive alphabetical index  allowing for
a quick and easy orientation about the most important terms in soil sciences. The book
addresses all those  who want to orient themselves about soils  their functions  their
importance in terrestrial and aquatic environments and their contribution to the actual and
future development of the human society  such as teachers  practitioners and students in the
fields of agriculture  forestry  gardening  terrestrial and aquatic ecology and environmental
engineering  and of course  beginning students of soil science. For classroom use  we offer
classroom sets of 10 copies and 20 copies which you may order through your bookstore or
directly online by following the respective link.

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