Handbook of Processes and Modeling in the Soil-Plant System

Handbook of Processes and Modeling in the Soil-Plant System Edited by Dinesh K. Benbi and Rolf Nieder, Food Products Press and The Haworth Reference Press, imprints of The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580. 2003. 762 p. $89.95 softcover. ISBN 1-56022-915-2.

Soil is a fundamental requirement of life on the earth. Most plants rely on soil for physical support and nutrition supply. Animal and other low forms of organisms, in turn, use organic matter produced by plants for food. Correct and efficient soil management methods rely always on the thorough understanding of physical, chemical, and biological processes occurring in soil that form a very sophisticated interrelated network system. To understand the complex network system, it is important to explore every component by all means. Presenting both the fundamental processes occurring in the system and a variety of related modeling approaches in one book...