Soil Science: Fundamentals to Recent Advances

This compilation has been designed to provide a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical update for scientists working in the broad field of soil science. The book explores all possible mechanisms and means to improve nutrient use efficiencies involving developing and testing of nanofertilizers, developing consortia based microbial formulations for mobilization of soil nutrients, and engineering of nutrient efficient crops using molecular biology and biotechnological tools. This is an all-inclusive collection of information about soil science. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, soil scientists, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of soil science, quantitative ecology, earth sciences, GIS and geodetic sciences, as well as geologists, geomorphologists, hydrologists and landscape ecology. National and international agriculture and soil scientists, policy makers will alsofind this to be a useful read.

Chapter 1. Managing Soil Resources for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 2. Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics, Stabilization and Environmental Implication.- Chapter 3. Soil Organic Carbon: Past, Present and Future Research.- Chapter 4. Below-ground carbon storage and dynamics.- Chapter 5. Soil Biodiversity and Community Composition for Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 6. Rhizodeposition: an Unseen Teaser of Nature and its Prospects in Nutrients Dynamics.- Chapter 7. Soil Indicators and Management Strategies for Agro-environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 8. Conservation agriculture in reshaping below ground microbial diversity.- Chapter 9. Saline and Sodic Ecosystems in the Changing World.- Chapter 10. Approaches in Advanced Soil Elemental Extractability: Catapulting Future Soil-Plant Nutrition Research.- Chapter 11. Liquid Biofertilizer: A Potential Tool Towards Sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 12. Biochar Role in Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from AgriculturalSoils.- Chapter 13. Nanotechnology is an Art for Native Nutrient Mobilization and Enhanced Use Efficiency.- Chapter 14. Nanotechnology in Environmental Soil Science.- Chapter 15. Importance of Soil Heterogeneity in Variety Testing Programs.- Chapter 16. Environmental and societal implications of soil response to increasing agricultural demands,- Chapter 17. Soil centric approaches towards climate resilient agriculture.- Chapter 18. Functional Diversity Management through Microbial Integrity for Sustainability.- Chapter 19. The Effect of Crops and Farming Systems on Soil Quality: A Case study.- Chapter 20. Role of Biochar on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration in Soil: Opportunities for Mitigating Climate change.- Chapter 21. Employment of seed priming as a salt-stress mitigating approach in agriculture: challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 22. Microbial Approaches for Bio-Amelioration and Management of Salt Affected Soils.- Chapter 23. Role of zeolites in improving nutrient and water storage capacity of soil and their impact on overall soil quality and crop performance.- Chapter 24 Sulfur in Soil: Abiotic Stress Signaling, Transmission and Induced Physiological Responses in Plants.- Chapter 25. Reducing methane emission from lowland rice ecosystem.- Chapter 26. Potential and Risk of Nanotechnology Application in Agriculture vis-à-vis Nano micronutrient Fertilizers.- Chapter 27. Introduction to drone technology  for natural resource management in agriculture.- Chapter 28. High-throughput estimation of soil nutrient and residue cover: a step towards precision agriculture.- Chapter 29. Global development in Soil Science Research: Agriculture Sensors and Technologies.- Chapter 30. Soil science research and development in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Chapter 31. The frontiers in soil science research: An African perspective.- Chapter 32. Improvement of Soil quality by solid waste recycling: A Global Perspective. Chapter 33. Nutrient SufficiencyRange of Soils and Plants in Singapore.- Chapter 34. Calcareous Oolitic Limestone Rockland Soils of the Bahamas: Some Physical, Chemical and Fertility Characteristics. Chapter 35. Consequences of anthropogenic disturbance on variation of soil properties and food security: An Asian story.- Chapter 36. Natural Resource Management and Conservation for Smallholder farming in India: Strategies and Challenges.- Chapter 37. Soil and Water Management in India: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 38. Indian Fertiliser Policy: Retrospect and Prospect.- Chapter 39. Long Term Fertilizer Experiments in India: Achievements and Issues for Future Research.- Chapter 40. Micronutrient deficiency stress in soils of India: tackling it to alleviate hidden hunger.- Chapter 41. Pesticides pollution in soils and sediment in India: Status, impact and countermeasures.- Chapter 42. Climate-Smart Soil Management: Prospect and Challenges in Indian Scenario.