Soils, plants and clay minerals
Subtitle: mineral and biologic interactions
By: Bruce Velde, Pierre Barré
Contributors: Barre, Pierre, Dr
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9783642034985; 9783642034992
Subjects: Plant-soil relationships; Soil mineralogy; Effect of minerals on; Plants; Mineral cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Description: This book considers the inter-relations between plants and minerals in an entirely new way, in that it introduces the notion of eco-engineering: i.e. the manipulation of the mineral world by the living world to the ends of the living world. These inter-relations are the basis for traditional agriculture and should be the basis for new, ecologically oriented land management disciplines, including agriculture itself. These relations also have an impact on surface geochemistry and determine pollution problems. A better understanding of this concept will lead to a renewed consideration of surface environmental problems.
Notes: Includes index.