Principles of agronomy for sustainable agriculture / Francisco J. Villalobos, Elias Fereres, editors.
Villalobos, Francisco J.; Fereres, E. (Elias)
2016
S494.5.S86
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Title Principles of agronomy for sustainable agriculture / Francisco J. Villalobos, Elias Fereres, editors.
ISBN 9783319461168 (electronic book)
3319461168 (electronic book)
9783319461151
331946115X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46116-8
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-46116-8 doi
Call Number S494.5.S86
Dewey Decimal Classification 631.5/8
Summary This textbook explains the various aspects of sustainable agricultures to undergraduate and graduate students. The book first quantifies the components of the crop energy balance, i.e. the partitioning of net radiation, and their effect on the thermal environment of the canopy. The soil water balance and the quantification of its main component (evapotranspiration) are studied to determine the availability of water to rain fed crops and to calculate crop water requirements. Then it sets the limitations of crop production in relation to crop phenology, radiation interception and resource availability (e.g. nutrients). With that in mind the different agricultural techniques (sowing, tillage, irrigation, fertilization, harvest, application of pesticides, etc.) are analyzed with special emphasis in quantifying the inputs (sowing rates, fertilizer amounts, irrigation schedules, tillage plans) required for a given target yield under specific environmental conditions (soil & climate). For all techniques strategies are provided for improving the ratio productivity/resource use while ensuring sustainability. The book comes with online practical focusing on the key aspects of management in a crop rotation (collecting weather data, calculating productivity, sowing rates, irrigation programs, fertilizers rates etc).
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Fereres, E. (Elias)
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PART A: CROPS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 1. Introduction to agricultural systems
Chapter 2. The soil. Physical and chemical properties
Chapter 3. Radiation balance
Chapter 4. Wind and turbulence
Chapter 5. Air temperature and humidity
Chapter 6. Soil temperature
Chapter 7. The energy balance
Chapter 8. Water balance: Infiltration, runoff and percolation
Chapter 9. Evapotranspiration and crop water requirements
PART B: DETERMINANTS OF CROP PRODUCTIVITY Chapter 10 Crop development and growth
Chapter 11 Photosynthesis and respiration
Chapter 12 Density and competition
Chapter 13. Potential productivity
Chapter 14 Water-limited productivity
Chapter 15. Other limitations to crop productivity
PART C: SOWING, SOIL MANAGEMENT AND SOIL CONSERVATION
Chapter 16. Planting and sowing
Chapter 17. Tillage
Chapter 18. Soil erosion and soil conservation
PART D: WATER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF SALINITY
Chapter 19. Irrigation systems
Chapter 20. Irrigation scheduling
Chapter 21. Deficit irrigation
Chapter 22. Control of salinity
PART E: FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 23. Fertilizers
Chapter 24. N fertilization
Chapter 25. P, K and other nutrients
Chapter 26. Fertigation
PART F: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND OTHER TECHNIQUES
Chapter 27. Windbreaks, agroforestry
Chapter 28. Temperature modification
Chapter 29. Frost control
Chapter 30. Control of weeds and other biotic factors
Chapter 31. Application of herbicides and other biotic control agents
Chapter 32. Harvest and conservation
Chapter 33. New tools and methods in agronomy: remote sensing, site specific agriculture and simulation modeling applications
PART G: Cropping systems
Chapter 34. Cropping and farming systems
Chapter 35. Farming and the sustainability of food systems.

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