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Soil Biology Books

There are many online resources where you can find free Soil Biology books to download in PDF format, including online textbooks, ebooks, lecture notes, and more, covering basic, beginner, and advanced concepts for those looking for an introduction to the subject or a deeper understanding of it.

Fundamentals of Soil Science

This note describes the following topics: Soil Forming Processes, Aerial Photography, Soil Classification and Land Capability Classification, Soil Physical Properties, Soil Structure and Consistency, Densities of Soil, Porosity and Soil Color, Soil Air and Temperature, Soil Water, Soil Colloids, Ion Exchange, Soil pH and Nutrient Availability, Soil Organic Matter, Soil Environmental Quality and Quality of Irrigation Water .

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The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms

This note explains the following topics: Habits Of Worms, The Amount Of Fine Earth Brought Up By Worms To The Surface, The Part Which Worms Have Played In The Burial Of Ancient Buildings, The Action Of Worms In The Denudation Of The Land, The Denudation Of The Land.

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Soil Biology Primer

This PDF covers the following topics related to Soil Biology : The Soil Food Web, the Food Web & Soil Health, Bacteria, Soil Fungi, Soil Protozoa, Nematodes, Arthropods, Earthworms.

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Soil Erosion

In the first section of this book on soil erosion, an introduction to the soil erosion problem is presented. In the first part of the second section, rainfall erosivity is estimated on the basis of pluviograph records and cumulative rainfall depths by means of empirical equations and machine learning methods. In the second part of the second section, a physically-based, hydrodynamic, finite element model is described for the computation of surface runoff and channel flows.

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Soil Nutrient Management

The purpose of this web resource is to provide fundamental concepts for managing nutrients in tropical soils and container crop production. Topics covered includes: Soil composition, Soil profile Factors that cause differences in soil behavior and performance, Goals of Modern Nutrient Management, Soil-Nutrient Relationships, Soil Acidity and Liming, Essential Nutrients, Soil Fertility Evaluation, Fertilizer Material, Fertilizer Placement.

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Soil Science Introduction

This note covers the following topics: Soil Physical Properties, Soil-water potential- concepts and measurement, Saturated water flow, Water flow in unsaturated soils, Field soil water regime, Solute movement, Gas flow, Heat transfer, Spatial and temporal variability of soil physical properties.

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Land Degradation and Desertification

This book is organized into two sections. The first section covers three major aspects, viz., an understanding of patterns of land degradation and desertification for developing mitigation strategies, land-atmosphere interaction from response of land cover to climate change effects of Karst rocky desertification. The last section dwells on the relationship between soil degradation and crop production and an examination on how land degradation impacts the quality of soil in communal rangelands.

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Soil Fertility

Soil Fertility book presents nine chapters written by renowned soil fertility experts from Africa, Asia and South America. The book is divided into two sections. Section 1, Biological Processes and Integration of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers for Soil Fertility Improvement, examines biological processes that can enhance the soil fertility. The second section, Improving Fertilizer Recommendation and Efficiency, looks at the state-of-the-art in leaf sampling and analysis.

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Advanced Soil Mechanics

This class presents the application of principles of soil mechanics. It considers the following topics: the origin and nature of soils; soil classification; the effective stress principle; hydraulic conductivity; stress-strain-strength behavior of cohesionless and cohesive soils and application to lateral earth stresses; bearing capacity and slope stability; consolidation theory and settlement analysis; and laboratory and field methods for evaluation of soil properties in design practice.

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Status of the Worlds Soil Resources

Goal of this guide is to make clear these essential connections between human well-being and the soil, and to provide a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured.

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Soil Science Lecture Notes

This book explains the following topics: Soil Physics - Solids, Water, Heat, Soil aeration, solute transportation, Effects of cattle grazing on soils in coniferous forests, Soil Chemistry: Ion adsorption and exchange, Soil organic matter, Soil Biology - Soil organisms, Physiology and environment of soil organisms, Soil Fertility - Soil as a source of plant nutrients and Nutrient cycles.

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Soil Culture

This volume is designed to be a complete manual for all but amateur cultivators. The object of this volume is to condense, and present in an intelligible form, all important established facts in the science of soil-culture. The author claims originality, as to the discovery of facts and principles, in but few cases.

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Lessons on Soil

The book is intended to help children to study nature. This book covers the following topics: What is the soil made of, more about the clay, what lime does to clay, some experiments with the sand, the plant food in the soil, the dwellers in the soil, the soil and the plant, cultivation and tillage, the soil and the countryside, how soil has been made.

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Soil Biology and Land Management (PDF 20P)

This note covers the following topics: the goal of soil biology management, why should land managers understand soil biology?, the underground community, what controls soil biology?, general management strategies, considerations for specific land uses, cropland, forestland, rangeland, assessment and monitoring.

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