Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Optimizing the Growth and N Status of Containerized Australian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) Seedings with Exponential Nitrogen Loading
(Xiaogang Ding, and Qian He, Guangdong Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, China, and others)
Chapter 2. Soil Carbon Stocks in Different Vegetation Types of Azad Jammu and Kashmir State in the Western Himalayas
(Hamayun Shaheen, and Shahzad Naseer Awan, Department of Botany, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan)
Chapter 3. Biological Soil Crusts Distribution in Artemisia Ordosica Communities along a Grazing Pressure Gradient in Mu Us Sandy Land, Northern China
(Junhong Zhang, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, China)
Chapter 4. Wood Ash as Alternative Fertilizer in Degraded Pasture Area
(Edna Maria Bonfim-Silva, Ana Paula Alves Barreto Damasceno, and Jefferson Vieira José, Institute of Agricultural and Technological Sciences, Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering. Federal University of Mato Grosso, Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, Brazil)
Chapter 5. The Watershed Management of Badland Areas (Calanchi) in Southern Italy
(Francesco Gentile, and Giovanni Romano, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy)
Chapter 6. Developing a ‘Green’ Pipeline and Building an Ecological Corridor: Effects of Pipeline Construction-Related Disturbances on Soil Properties and Restoration
(Peng Shi, and Yan Zhang, Institute of Water Resources and Hydro-electric Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China, and College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an, China)
Chapter 7. Criteria for Selecting Soil Quality Indicators: Contributions to Sustainable Management of Soils
(Diane Cristina Stefanoski, Cícero Célio de Figueiredo, Glenio Guimarães Santos, and Robélio Leandro Marchão, University of Brasilia, Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary, Brasilia, DF, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 8. Land Preparation Technique and Vegetation Type Commonly Determine Soil Properties, Surface Runoff and Erosion after Long-Term Land Stabilization Measures in a Dry Hilly Catchment of China
(Yang Yu, Wei Wei, and Liding Chen, State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basins, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China, and others)
Chapter 9. The Role of Management and Landscape on Aggregate Characteristics within the Soil Active Layer
(Kenneth M. Wacha, Jerry L. Hatfield, Thanos Papanicolaou, and Christian Dold, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, IA, USA, and others)
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Reviews
“The topic of the book is very interesting and valuable. The book is clearly written and well structured. Firstly in Chapters 1-3, the authors introduce the situation of soil erosion and the method to control this kind of natural hazards. Then a series of holistic approaches for watershed management have been presented in Chapters 4-9. Innovative ideas together with solid proofs may be found throughout the book.” – Xiangzhou Xu, Full Professor, PhD Supervisor, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Audience
Universities, forest management agencies, research institutions.
Keywords
Soil erosion, soil management, karst ecosystems, soil properties, soil quality
