The Soils of Iran

Mohammad Hassan Roozitalab, Hamid Siadat, Abbas Farshad (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 255 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-69046-9 (ISBN)

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This unique book addresses Iran's extremely rich soil diversity and resources, which have developed under various climatic conditions ranging from dry to humid conditions. Featuring contributions by a group of respected experts on Iranian soils and agriculture, it provides comprehensive information on the management approaches needed for sustainable soil utilization and conservation under such conditions, and the attendant challenges. As such, it offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in soils and agriculture in Iran, but also in other Middle East and North African countries with similar climatic conditions.
The book contains 14 chapters which illustrate the long history of indigenous knowledge and soil research, climate, geology and geomorphology, vegetation cover, soil forming factors and processes, major soils, properties and their classification. Furthermore, it presents past climate change and paleosols, agroecological zones, soil fertility, soil biology and biotechnology, human induced land degradation and "soil management in space and time". In the end, major challenges facing the soil resources of the country are defined and recommendations are made to face the future challenges.

M H Roozitalab,H Siadat and A. Farshad are well known soil scientists from Iran with wide experiences and deep knowledge on soil resources of the country. M. H Roozitalab and H Siadat have been awarded as distinguished soil scientists by Soil Science Society of Iran for their longstanding contribution to the advances of soil science in the country.

Introduction.- Overview of soil research and soil mapping history.- Climate and water resources.- Geology and geomorphology.- Agro-ecological zones.- Vegetation and Land use.- Soil forming factors.- Major soil orders and their classification.- Soil maps.- Main features of Iranian soils ( physical chemical and biological).- Soil fertility.- Soil management.- Human induced Land degradation.- Future soil issues.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	World Soils Book Series
Zusatzinfo	X, 255 p. 184 illus., 156 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Gewicht	802 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	agricultural science • Agriculture • Earth and Environmental Science • geomorphology • Geomorphology & geological surface processes • Geomorphology & geological surface processes • Iranian Agro-ecological Zones • Iranian Climate • Iranian Land-use • Iranian Soil Management • Iranian Soils • Sedimentology & pedology • Sedimentology & pedology • Soil Science & Conservation • Soil Science & Conservation • The Environment
ISBN-10	3-319-69046-9 / 3319690469
ISBN-13	978-3-319-69046-9 / 9783319690469
Zustand	Neuware