Principles of agronomy for sustainable agriculture

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This textbook explains the various aspects of sustainable agricultures to undergraduate and graduate students. The book first quantifies the components of the crop energy balance, i.e. the partitioning of net radiation, and their effect on the thermal environment of the canopy. The soil water balanc...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Villalobos, Francisco J., Fereres, E. (Elias)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Subjects:
Sustainable agriculture.
Agronomy.
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • PART A: CROPS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to agricultural systems
  • Chapter 2. The soil. Physical and chemical properties
  • Chapter 3. Radiation balance
  • Chapter 4. Wind and turbulence
  • Chapter 5. Air temperature and humidity
  • Chapter 6. Soil temperature
  • Chapter 7. The energy balance
  • Chapter 8. Water balance: Infiltration, runoff and percolation
  • Chapter 9. Evapotranspiration and crop water requirements
  • PART B: DETERMINANTS OF CROP PRODUCTIVITY Chapter 10 Crop development and growth
  • Chapter 11 Photosynthesis and respiration
  • Chapter 12 Density and competition
  • Chapter 13. Potential productivity
  • Chapter 14 Water-limited productivity
  • Chapter 15. Other limitations to crop productivity
  • PART C: SOWING, SOIL MANAGEMENT AND SOIL CONSERVATION
  • Chapter 16. Planting and sowing
  • Chapter 17. Tillage
  • Chapter 18. Soil erosion and soil conservation
  • PART D: WATER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF SALINITY
  • Chapter 19. Irrigation systems
  • Chapter 20. Irrigation scheduling
  • Chapter 21. Deficit irrigation
  • Chapter 22. Control of salinity
  • PART E: FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT
  • Chapter 23. Fertilizers
  • Chapter 24. N fertilization
  • Chapter 25. P, K and other nutrients
  • Chapter 26. Fertigation
  • PART F: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND OTHER TECHNIQUES
  • Chapter 27. Windbreaks, agroforestry
  • Chapter 28. Temperature modification
  • Chapter 29. Frost control
  • Chapter 30. Control of weeds and other biotic factors
  • Chapter 31. Application of herbicides and other biotic control agents
  • Chapter 32. Harvest and conservation
  • Chapter 33. New tools and methods in agronomy: remote sensing, site specific agriculture and simulation modeling applications
  • PART G: Cropping systems
  • Chapter 34. Cropping and farming systems
  • Chapter 35. Farming and the sustainability of food systems.

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