Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author: Petra Marschner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540680276

This book presents a comprehensive overview of nutrient cycling processes and their importance for plant growth and ecosystem sustainability. The book combines fundamental scientific studies and devised practical approaches. It contains contributions of leading international authorities from various disciplines resulting in multidisciplinary approaches, and all chapters have been carefully reviewed. This volume will support scientists and practitioners alike.

Cycling of Mineral Nutrients in Agricultural Ecosystems

Cycling of Mineral Nutrients in Agricultural Ecosystems
Author: M Frissel
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0444601546

Cycling of Mineral Nutrients in Agricultural Ecosystems contains the papers presented in the first international environmental symposium of the Royal Netherlands Land Development Society held at Amsterdam on 1976. The symposium is cosponsored by the International Association for Ecology and Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company. This compilation reflects the exchange of information and ideas by specialists and participants of the symposium. The book is comprised of nine chapters, which cover the following concepts of nutrient cycling in agricultural ecosystems: principles and control of nutrient cycling; description and classification of agro-ecosystems; nutrient cycling data from different countries; and general discussion on nutrient balances, changes in soil pools, manipulations, and future researches. This book also offers potential background and perspectives for further studies on nutrient cycling in agro-ecosystems, presenting a view on what directions future research should take. This volume will be an invaluable reference source for environmental science students and professionals. Research workers in agriculture and other environmental disciplines will also find this book useful.

Fauna in Soil Ecosystems

Fauna in Soil Ecosystems
Author: Gero Benckiser
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1997-01-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780824797867

Offers an integrated presentation of the microbial, agronomic and recycling aspects of soil faunal potentials, emphasizing agricultural ecosystems and furnishing methods for modelling food webs. The text covers morphology, reproduction, abundances, basic requirements, competition, predation, parasitism, nutrient cycling and phytopathological interactions, soil physics and agricultural management, plus methods to quantify soil faunal groups.

Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author: A. F. Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1990
Genre: Biogeochemical cycles
ISBN:

A source of information for environmental scientists involved in research of the inputs, cycling and losses of nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems. A division has been made into a series of sections, dealing in turn with inputs, losses, turnover and plant uptake

Proceedings...

Proceedings...
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1983
Genre:
ISBN:

The key to the agricultural ecosystem; Ecology and agriculture; Research in agricultural ecosystems; Opportunities for research on nutrient cycling in agricultural ecosystems in Scotland; Opportunities for research in agricultural ecosystems; Opportunities for research on nitrient cycling in agricultural ecosystems in Scotland; Opportunities for research in agricultural ecosystems: Sweden; Traditional and innovative approaches to agriculture on Amazon Brasil Tierra Firme Sites; Agroecosystems of the Great Plains of North America; Research in agricultural ecosystems: North Central United States; Nutrient cycling research needs in Northeastern agriculture; Soil and water resources available for agricultural development in the Southeastern United States; Nutrient balances in agricultural ecosystems; Use of microcosms for monitoring nutrient-cycling processes in agroecosystems; Factors influencing nitrogen fluxes in a small Ontario agricultural watershed; N and P in soils and runoff of three coastal plain land uses; Nitrogen inputs and outputs for an irrigated corn ecosystem in the northwest corn belt; Movement of nutrients and sediment from a subsurface drainage system; Element mass balances for South Carolina coastal plain watersheds; Hydrology and nutrient and sediment movement from southeastern coastal plain watersheds; Nutrient cycling in a southeastern United States Agricultural Watershed; Agricultural management techniques and nutrient-cucling processes; N-15 abundances in Virgin Soils and their fertilized analogues; Nitrogen fertilization, mineralization, and leaching under irrigation in the midwest; The influence of roots on nutrient leaching and uptake; Gaseous ammonia transport in a cattle-pasture system; Fate of nitrogen from NH4N03 and broiler litter applied to coastal bermudagrass; Effects of litter-free poultry manure on nitrogen mineralization and yields of sudangrass and sorghum x sudangrass cultivars; Nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in shallow reservoirs used for agricultural drainage water treatment; Crop residue removai: the effects on soil erosion and nutrient loss; The effects of tillage on the nitrogen cycle in corn and wheat production; Nutrient and sediment losses associated with conventional and reduced-tillage agricultural practices; Effect of tillage on nutrient cycling in southeastern coastal plain agroecosystems; Riparian vegetation as filters of nutrients exported from a coastal plain agricultural watershed; Models of nutrient cycling in agricultural ecosystems; Biogeochemical cycles and ecological hierarchies; Identification and characterization of ecosystems at different integrative levels; Simulation of soil organic matter formations and mineralization in semiarid agroecosystems; Modeling nutrient cycling in agroecosystems; Simulation models of nitrogen flux in conventional and no-tillage agroecosystems; CREAMS: a system for evaluating best management practices.

Food Webs

Food Webs
Author: Gary A. Polis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461570077

Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and examines the complexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food web research. Food Webs features material on the role of nutrients, detritus and microbes in food webs, indirect effects in food webs, the interaction of productivity and consumption, linking cause and effect in food webs, temporal and spatial scales of food web dynamics, applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries, and ecosystem stress. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history influences on food webs. In addition, numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literature are presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.