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  title info:
    title: Soils, Ecosystem Processes, and Agricultural Development
    sub title: Tropical Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
  name:
    name part: Funakawa, Shinya.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ja
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 392 p. 126 illus., 55 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture. The chapters describe and analyze the ecological and technical countermeasures available for mitigating environmental degradation due to the increasing agricultural activities by humans, based on our scientific understanding of traditional agriculture in the tropics. This is an effective approach, as such ecological and technical tools previously involved in traditional activities are expected to be easily incorporated into present agricultural systems. The book starts with a rather classical pedological issue and analyzed traditional agricultural practices with different resource management strategies in terms of their modification of natural biological processes. It focuses on the present situation of tropical agriculture; that is, resource utilization in modern agriculture after application of technical innovation (increased application of chemical fertilizers as well as agricultural chemicals). Here, possible technical approaches to resource management that reasonably support agricultural production whilst mitigating environmental degradation are discussed. The negative impacts of agricultural development on our environment are rapidly growing, yet we are increasingly dependent on the agricultural sector for food and energy. The situation is similar in the tropics, where subsistence agriculture with low input management has long comprised most agricultural systems. Comparison of ecological and/or agronomical studies between different continents are still rare; therefore, this analysis may help clarify what is an essential problem when considering technical transportation beyond continents and/or between temperate and tropical regions.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction (Shinya Funakawa) -- Part I. Distribution of clay minerals in tropical Asia and Africa with special reference to parent materials (geology) and climatic conditions -- 2. Parent materials and climate control secondary mineral distributions in soil in Kalimantan, Indonesia (Tetsuhiro Watanabe and Supiandi Sabiham) -- 3. Influence of climatic factor on clay mineralogy in humid Asia—Significance of vermiculitization of mica minerals under a udic soil moisture regime (Shinya Funakawa and Tetsuhiro Watanabe) -- 4. Soil-forming factors determining the distribution patterns of different soils in Tanzania with special reference to clay mineralogy (Shinya Funakawa and Method Kilasara) -- 5. Soil fertility status in equatorial Africa—A comparison of the Great Rift Valley regions and central/western Africa (Shinya Funakawa and Takashi Kosaki) -- 6. Significance of active aluminum and iron on organic carbon preservation and phosphate sorption/release in tropical soils (Tetsuhiro Watanabe) -- Part II Ecosystem processes in forest-soil systems under different geological, climatic, and soil conditions -- 7. Soil acidification processes under different geological and climatic conditions in tropical Asia (Kazumichi Fujii and Arief Hartono) -- 8. Savannazation of African tropical forest critically changed the soil nutrient dynamics in East Cameroon (Soh Sugihara) -- 9. Ecosystem processes of Ferralsols and Acrisols in forest-soil systems of Cameroon (Makoto Shibata) -- Part III Human adaptation of agricultural practices in upland soils under different bio-climatic conditions in tropical Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa -- 10. Changes in elemental dynamics after reclamation of forest and savanna in Cameroon and comparison with the case in Southeast Asia (Makoto Shibata) -- 11. Shifting cultivation in northern Thailand with special reference to the function of the fallow phase (Shinya Funakawa) -- 12. Slash and burn agriculture in Zambia (Kaori Ando and Hitoshi Shinjo) -- 13.…
  note: edited by Shinya Funakawa.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Soil science
  subject:
    topic: Soil conservation
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Soil Science & Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  classification: QH541.5.S6
  classification: S622-627
  classification: 631.4
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9784431564843
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56484-3
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    record creation date: 170516
    record change date: 20170516131935.0
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