Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture (Advances in Agroecology)
Contributors: Fred Magdoff (Editor); Ray R. Weil (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: May 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780849312946
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Agriculture & related industries; Chemistry; Soil science, sedimentology; Technology; Humus; Agricultural Economics; Soil Chemistry; Technology & Industrial Arts; Sustainable agriculture; Science/Mathematics; Soil ecology; Agriculture - Agronomy; Agriculture - Soil Science; Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture; Nature / Ecology; Agriculture - General
First sentence: Soil scientists have developed the concept of soil quality (SQ) to describe the fitness of soils to perform particular ecosystem functions (Karlen et al., 2001).