Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Natural and Agricultural Tropical Ecosystems
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Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Natural and Agricultural Tropical Ecosystems


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Soil fertility is one of the most important fundamental factors regulating yield and productivity in both the agricultural and natural ecosystems of the tropics and therefore its maintainence presents one of the most important challenges to their sustainable use. In particular, declining soil fertility on small-holdings is a serious and increasing problem in Africa and other parts of the world. The product of a symposium held at the University of Zimbabwe in May 1996, this book presents information on the ecological processes and management practices which affect soil fertility and examines methods by which these can be integrated, to obtain economically feasible solutions. It is partly the result of ten years research by the internationally funded Soil Biology and Fertility Project in Zimbabwe, and includes contributions by researchers from other countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. The chapters are grouped into five sections, examining nutrient dynamics in soil, decomposition of crop residues, tree-soil-crop interactions in agroforestry and ecosystem dynamics, and finally considering prospects for the future. This book is essential reading for agronomists, soil scientists and ecologists with an active interest in tropical regions and is an important reference for decision-makers in land use and development in tropical countries. It will also be of interest to students of agronomy, tropical biology and ecology.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Nutrient Dynamics in Soil 1: Organic Matter Turnover in Tropical Land-use Systems 2: Organic Carbon and Plant Nutrients in Soils under Maize in Chinamhora Communal Area, Zimbabwe 3: Isotopic Composition of Organic Carbon in Some Soils of Semiarid Africa 4: Tropical Legumes: Providers and Plunderers of Nitrogen 5: The Role of Legume Quality in Soil Carbon Dynamics in Savannah Ecosystems 6: Water-dispersable Clay in Aggregates of Forest and Cultivated Soils in Southern Nigeria Part II: Decomposition of Crop Residues 7: The Use of Tree Prunings as Sources of Nitrogen for Maize 8: Crop and Soil Recovery of Nitrogen from Nitrogen-15-labelled Maize (Zea mays L.) Residue 9: Use of Coffee Husks as an Organic Amendment to Improve Soil Fertility in Ugandan Banana Production 10: Root Decomposition, Nitrogen Release and Effects on Maize Performance 11: Assessment of Plant-litter Quality Related to Short-term Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization in Soil Part III: Tree-Soil-Crop Interactions in Agroforestry Systems 12: Influence of Savannah Trees and Shrubs on Understorey Grasses and Soils: New Directions in Research 13: Tree-Soil-Crop Interactions in Sequential and Simultaneous Agroforestry Systems 14: The Influence of Scattered Parinari curatellifolia and Acacia sieberana Trees on Soil Nutrients in a Grassland Pasture and in Arable Fields Part IV: Ecosystems Dynamics 15: Comparative Ecosystem Characteristics of a Miombo Woodland and an Adjacent Agricultural Field (Zimbabwe) 16: Simulation of Nitrogen Leaching and Plant Uptake in the Maize Root Zone Under Rain-fed Conditions in Malawi Part V: Reflections on Present and Future Agriculture in the Tropics 17: Investigating Soil Fertility in Africa: Some Reflections from Research in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe 18: Advocating Choice: Options for Soil-fertility Management on Small-scale Farms of the Eastern Zambian Plateau 19: Towards an Analytical Framework for Land-use Change 20: Ten Years of Soil Biology and Fertility: Where Next?


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  • ISBN-13: 9780851992181
  • Publisher: CABI Publishing
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 336
  • ISBN-10: 0851992188
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1998
  • Language: English


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