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Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth's Critical Zone : Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
2017.
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| Colección: | Advances in agronomy ;
v. 142. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Quantifying and Managing Soil Functions in Earth�s Critical Zone: Combining Experimentation and Mathematical Modelling; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter One: Soil Functions in Earth�s Critical Zone: Key Results and Conclusions; 1. Introduction; 2. Research Methods; 3. Overview of Results; 4. Discussion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter Two: Soil Water Characteristics of European SoilTrEC Critical Zone Observatories; 1. Introduction; 2. Material and Methods; 2.1. Sites; 2.2. Climate and Hydrological Characteristics
- 2.3. Soil Sampling and Soil Physical Laboratory Analyses2.4. Soil Water Characteristics; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 4.1. Leptosols: Damma Glacier CZO (D1, D2, D3) and Koiliaris CZO (K3); 4.2. Cambisols: Damma Glacier CZO (D4), Slavkov Forest CZO (S3), and Koiliaris CZO (K4, K5); 4.3. Fluvisols: Marchfeld CZO (M1, M2, M3) and Koiliaris CZO (K1, K2); 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; Appendix; References; Chapter Three: Reduced Subsurface Lateral Flow in Agroforestry System Is Balanced by Increased Water Retention Capacity: ... ; 1. Introduction; 2. Materials and Methods
- 2.1. Study Site and Land Uses2.2. Rainfall Simulation; 2.3. Estimation of Subsurface Lateral Flow by Water Balance; 2.4. Inverse Modeling of Subsurface Lateral Flow; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 4.1. Generation of Subsurface Lateral Flow; 4.2. The Role of Soil Structure on Subsurface Lateral Flow Generation; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Four: Interception of Subsurface Lateral Flow Through Enhanced Vertical Preferential Flow in an Agroforestry Syst ... ; 1. Introduction; 2. Materials and Methods; 2.1. Experimental Site
- 2.2. Dye-Tracing Experiment Without Rainfall Simulation2.3. Dye-Tracing Experiment With Rainfall Simulation; 2.4. Image Analysis; 3. Results; 3.1. Vertical and Horizontal Dye-Staining Patterns Without Rainfall; 3.2. Horizontal Dye-Staining Patterns After a Simulated Rainfall; 4. Discussion; 4.1. Agroforestry System Influences on Vertical Preferential Flow Pathways; 4.2. Agroforestry System Influences on Subsurface Lateral Flow; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References
- Chapter Five: Effects of Dry and Wet Sieving of Soil on Identification and Interpretation of Microbial Community Composition1. Introduction; 2. Materials and Methods; 2.1. Study Sites and Soil Sampling; 2.2. Soil Fractionation; 2.2.1. Dry Sieving; 2.2.2. Wet Sieving; 2.3. DNA Extraction; 2.4. Quantitative-PCR; 2.5. Amplicon Sequencing; 2.6. Statistical Analysis; 3. Results; 3.1. Aggregates Distribution; 3.2. Microbial Gene Abundance; 3.3. Bacterial Diversity; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References