Soil Science: Fundamentals to Recent Advances (Paperback)

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 Agricultural Soils.- 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-a-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 Sufficiency Range 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.