Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems
Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems

Author: Jr. Cairns

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1351419234

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Built on a strong foundation in restoration ecology, this unique handbook provides practitioners, academics, and managers with vital tools needed to plan for ecosystem conservation, to restore degraded ecosystems, to make cost-effective restoration decisions, and to understand important legal issues. Rehabilitation of Damaged Ecosystems, Second Edition boasts three completely new chapters and five major chapter revisions. Coastal wetlands restoration, watershed rehabilitation and management, mined land reclamation, revegetation of disturbed ecosystems, and river and stream restoration are only a few of the critical topics explored in this timely reference handbook. This Second Edition provides valuable, reliable data as well as practical methods and techniques for the ongoing fight to protect natural resources and restore damaged ecosystems.

Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems
Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems

Author: John Cairns, Jr.

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1994-12-27

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9781566700436

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Built on a strong foundation in restoration ecology, this unique handbook provides practitioners, academics, and managers with vital tools needed to plan for ecosystem conservation, to restore degraded ecosystems, to make cost-effective restoration decisions, and to understand important legal issues. Rehabilitation of Damaged Ecosystems, Second Edition boasts three completely new chapters and five major chapter revisions. Coastal wetlands restoration, watershed rehabilitation and management, mined land reclamation, revegetation of disturbed ecosystems, and river and stream restoration are only a few of the critical topics explored in this timely reference handbook. This Second Edition provides valuable, reliable data as well as practical methods and techniques for the ongoing fight to protect natural resources and restore damaged ecosystems.

Soil Science Working for a Living
Soil Science Working for a Living

Author: David Dent

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-19

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 331945417X

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This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil, air and water. The chapters are grouped in four main themes: soil development - properties and qualities; assessment of resources and risks; soil fertility, degradation and improvement and soil contamination, monitoring and remediation. It is a selection of papers presented at the Pedodiversity in Space and Time Symposium held at Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, 15-19 September 2015.

Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1
Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

Author: R C Ray

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-01-06

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1482280302

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In agriculture, microbial biotechnology covers a wide array of subjects ranging from biofertilizers to biological control of pests and diseases; from biological N 2 -fixation to lignocellulose degradation; from production of biomass and biofuels to genetically engineered plants. Similarly, microbial biotechnology in aquaculture touches several aspe