Biodiversity in agriculture : sustainability of soil, soil fauna and soil flora / Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair.
Nair, Kodoth Prabhakaran, author.
2023
S494.5.A43 N35 2023
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Title Biodiversity in agriculture : sustainability of soil, soil fauna and soil flora / Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair.
Author Nair, Kodoth Prabhakaran, author.
ISBN 9783031442520 (electronic bk.)
3031442520 (electronic bk.)
9783031442513
3031442512
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44252-0
Published Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 100 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-44252-0 doi
Call Number S494.5.A43 N35 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 631.58
Summary This book begins with the principal subject of biodiversity in agriculture. The onslaught of highly soil extractive chemical farming, euphemistically called the "green revolution", has taken a heavy toll on soil biodiversity, hence, soil sustenance. Agrobiodiversity is a key resource for humanity. All of the food requirements humanity depends on are met by agrobiodiversity. Similarly, fodder fiber, firewood, and many other basic needs of humankind are also met by agrobiodiversity. The book puts forward ideas on how we are to develop a sustainable future, to provide a healthy and thriving environment for humanity by protecting, conserving, and augmenting agrobiodiversity. The pedosphere, the outermost layer of the Earth, composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes, is an integral component of biosphere, lying on the interface of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere and a lot more complex in its physicochemical and biological characteristics and functioning and quite distinguishable from that of the above soil-surface terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The biotic component of the pedosphere comprises a rich biodiversity of living species, dominated by microorganisms. This book considers and discusses the influences of soil formation processes. This book will be of interest to those engaged in researching biodiversity, agriculture, and crop science.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 20, 2023).
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Agrobiodiversity
Chapter 3: Biodiversity of the Pedosphere
Chapter 4: Chemosynthesis-based community biodiversity
Chapter 5: What are the threats to biodiversity? Its conservation and sustainability.

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