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Fertilizers : components, uses in agriculture and environmental impacts / Fernando López-Valdez, Fabian Fernández-Luqueno, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Biotechnology in agriculture, industry and medicine series.
- Biotechnology in Agriculture, Industry and Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fertilizers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book describes many important principles of fertilizer management and the environmental pollution problems due to the indiscriminate soil fertilization rate. The long-term impacts of organic or mineral fertilizer use have implications on soil fertility, crop yields, water quality, climatic change, greenhouse gas emissions, etc. Twelve chapters provide the state of the art of some important topics on subsistence agriculture, modern agronomy, and technological improvements which have sharply increased yields from cultivation, with a special emphasis on the sustainable management and environmental impact of commercial and nontraditional fertilizers. Without a doubt, this book is a valuable contribution to the agricultural sciences and it would not have been possible without the invaluable contributions, immeasurable acknowledgements, and recognized expertise from the authors.
- Contents:
- Sec. I. Traditional fertilizers
- Mineral nitrogen fertilizers : Environmental impact of production and use
- Environmental impact of phosphate fertilizers and by-products on agricultural soils
- Sec. II. Organic fertilizers
- Achievement of zero emissions by the bioconversion of fishery wastes into fertilizer
- Biochar
- Sec. III. Biofertilizers
- Comparative study of bio- and chemical fertilization in strawberry production
- Biofertilizers as complements to synthetic and organic fertilization
- Sec. IV. Non-conventional fertilizers
- Silicon fertilizers : Agricultural and environmental impacts
- Non-traditional ameliorants
- Effects of nanofertilizers on plant growth and development, and their interrelationship with the environment
- Sec. V. Improving fertilizer applications
- Modification of the properties of natural rubber by copolymerization with a biopolymer for a controlled release of urea fertilizer
- Effect of various mulch materials on sod-podzolic soil and field crops yield
- Radiological impact of fertilizers : Production and use.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63321-058-8
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