Encyclopedia of Soil Science
Encyclopedia of Soil Science
Editor/Author
Lal, Rattan
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: CRC Press
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ISBN: 978-1-49-873890-3
Category: Science - Geology
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Table of Contents
A definitive guide designed for both coursework and self-study, this latest version describes every branch of soil science and delves into trans-disciplinary issues that focus on inter-connectivity or the nexus approach.
Table of Contents
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Contributors
- Topical Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Editors
- Volume I: Accounting through Erosivity
- A
- Accounting: Emergy Analysis / Jay F. Martin and D.R. Tilley
- Acid Mine Drainage / Jerry M. Bigham and Charles A. Cravotta III
- Acid Rain: Nitrogen Deposition / George F. Vance
- Acid Sulfate Soils / Delvin S. Fanning
- Acid Sulfate Soils: Distribution and Extent / Wim Andriesse and M.E.F. van Mensvoort
- Acid Sulfate Soils: Formation / Martin C. Rabenhorst, Delvin S. Fanning, and Steven N. Burch
- Acid Sulfate Soils: Management / Michael D. Melville, Ian White, and Robert Quirk
- Acid Sulfate Soils: Problems / Martin C. Rabenhorst and Delvin S. Fanning
- Actinobacteria / Marketa Ságová-Marecková and Jan Kopecký
- Aeration: Measurement / Robert E. Sojka and H.D. Scott
- Aeration: Tillage Effects / Dave J. Horne and Robert E. Sojka
- Aggregates: Tensile Strength / Humberto Blanco-Canqui and Rattan Lal
- Aggregation / Sjoerd W. Duiker
- Aggregation: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) and / Cynthia A. Cambardella
- Aggregation: Structural Stability Measurement / Edmund Perfect, Martín Díaz-Zorita, and John Grove
- Agricultural Lands: Flooding and Levee Breaches / Kenneth R. Olson and Lois Wright Morton
- Agricultural Management: Root Growth / Susanne Schroetter, Jutta Rogasik, and Ewald Schnug
- Agricultural Soil Carbon: Trading / Bruce A. McCarl, Sung Ju Cho, Jinxiu Ding, Pei Huang, Layla Shiva, and Chin-Hsien Yu
- Air Permeability / Manoj K. Shukla and Rattan Lal
- Albedo / Endre Dobos
- Alfisols / Rienk Miedema
- Allophanes / Leslie Louise Baker and Jodi Johnson-Maynard
- Alpine Soils / Jérôme Poulenard and Pascal Podwojewski
- Aluminum / Johannes Bernhard Wehr, Frederick Paxton Cardell Blamey, and Neal William Menzies
- Amazon Basin Soils / Stanley W. Buol
- Amendments and Ameliorants / David C. McKenzie
- Ammonia: Volatilization from Agricultural Soils / Paul G. Saffigna and John R. Freney
- Amoozemeter / Aziz Amoozegar
- Anaerobic Processes / Paul A. McDaniel and Daniel G. Strawn
- Andisols / Jon Chorover
- Andisols: Iceland / Olafur Arnalds
- Animals: Ecosystem Functioning / Alan J. Franzluebbers
- Animals: Microbial Interactions and Nutrient Cycling / Lisa Cole and Richard D. Bardgett
- Antimony / Gudny Okkenhaug and Jan Mulder
- Ants / Walter G. Whitford
- Archaeology / John E. Foss
- Arid Soils / H. Curtis Monger
- Arsenic: Southeast Asia / Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman and Ravi Naidu
- Art and Soil / Christian Feller
- Atterberg Limits / Thomas Baumgartl
- B
- Bacteria / Mary Ann Bruns
- Biochar and Soil Characteristics / Atanu Mukherjee and Rattan Lal
- Biochar and Soil Quality / David A. Laird and Jeffrey M. Novak
- Biochar: Soil Carbon and Fertility / Adam O’Toole and Daniel Rasse
- Biodegradation and Bioremediation / Owen P. Ward and Ajay Singh
- Biodiversity and Sustainability / Odo Primavesi
- Bioenergy Crops: Carbon Balance Assessment / Rocky Lemus and Rattan Lal
- Biofuels versus Agricultural Soils / David Pimentel
- Biological Crusts / Jayne Belnap
- Biological Nitrogen Fixation / Robert H. Burris
- Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Contributions to Agriculture / Mark B. Peoples
- Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Enhancement Techniques / David Francis Herridge
- Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Forms and Regulating Factors / Ken E. Giller and Paul Mapfumo
- Biota / Lev O. Karpachevsky and Mikhail Karpachevsky
- Biota and Disease-Suppressive Soils / Nicola Lorenz
- Biotechnology / Manas R. Banerjee and Laila Yesmin
- Boreal Forest / Galina Mazhitova
- Boron and Molybdenum / Umesh C. Gupta and J.A. MacLeod
- Brick Making: Soil Degradation / G.S. Dheri, Babu S. Brar, and Debankur Sanyal
- Bulk Density / Kwong Yin Chan
- Bunch Planting: Water Conservation / B.A. Stewart
- C
- Calcification / Janis L. Boettinger
- Calcium / Zdenko Rengel
- Carbon Assessment: Spectroscopic Methods / James B. Reeves III and Gregory W. McCarty
- Carbon Sequestration: Fish Ponds / Subhendu Adhikari and Rattan Lal
- Carbon Sequestration: Geologic / Eswaran Padmanabhan
- Carbon Sequestration: Iceland / Anna María Ágústsdóttir
- Carbon Sequestration: Nutrient Management / M.C. Manna, Muneshwar Singh, R.H. Wanjari, Asit Mandal, and A.K. Patra
- Carbon Sequestration: Sediments / Eswaran Padmanabhan
- Carbon Sequestration: Semiarid Regions of India / Cherukumalli Srinivasa Rao, Sumanta Kundu, and Srinivas K.
- Carbon Sequestration: Urban Ecosystems / Adam Louis Selhorst
- Carbon Sink Capacity: Soil Profile Characteristics / Yuri Lopes Zinn
- Carbon: Inelastic Neutron Scattering / Lucian Wielopolski
- Carbon: Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy / Michael H. Ebinger, Ronny D. Harris, and Clifton W. Meyer
- Carbon: Physical Protection / Jennifer A.J. Dungait and David W. Hopkins
- Carbonates / Douglas W. Ming
- Carbonates: Secondary and Pedogenic / Ahmet R. Mermut and A. Landi
- Carbonates: Water and / Michael Duniway
- Care of Soil / Delia C. Catacutan
- Cerrado / Igo F. Lepsch
- Chemical Composition / Goro Uehara
- Chemisorption / N.J. Barrow
- Chernozems / Boris Boincean and Rattan Lal
- Chlorine / Uzi Kafkafi and Guohua Xu
- Classification Systems / Stephen Nortcliff
- Classification Systems: Arab Traditional, Moroccan Case / Mohamed Sabir and Hassan Ben Jelloun
- Classification Systems: Australian and New Zealand / Terry A. Isbell and A.E. Hewitt
- Classification Systems: Brazilian / A.C.S. da Costa and M.R. Nanni
- Classification Systems: Canadian / Charles Tarnocai
- Classification Systems: Chinese / Zi-Tong Gong
- Classification Systems: French / Jean-Paul Legros
- Classification Systems: Historical Developments / Dan H. Yaalon
- Classification Systems: Indian / Mariappan Velayutham, Tapas Bhattacharyya, and Dilip Kumar Pal
- Classification Systems: Indigenous / Erhan Akça and Selim Kapur
- Classification Systems: Major / Lars Krogh
- Classification Systems: Netherlands / Alfred E. Hartemink and Henk de Bakker
- Classification Systems: Russian / Maria Gerasimova
- Classification Systems: South African / Jeffrey C. Hughes
- Clay Minerals / C.D. Barton and Anastasios D. Karathanasis
- Clay Minerals: Charge Properties / Christopher John Matocha
- Clay Minerals: Weathering and Alteration of / Anastasios D. Karathanasis
- Climate / Alexander N. Gennadiyev and Serge S. Chernyanskii
- Climate Change: Gas Fluxes / Pascal Boeckx and Oswald Van Cleemput
- Climate Change: Soil Carbon Sequestration / Sherwood E. Idso and Keith E. Idso
- Cobalt and Iodine / Ronald G. McLaren
- Collembola / Steve P. Hopkin
- Color / Robin N. Thwaites
- Compaction / William E. Wolfe
- Conditioning Index / Ted M. Zobeck, M. Lee Norfleet, and Douglas L. Karlen
- Conservation Tillage / Jack Cline and Robert Hendershot
- Conserved Lands: Stewardship / Peter August, Janet Coit, and David Gregg
- Consistence / Ray McBride
- Consolidation / Tarunjit Singh Butalia
- Controlled Traffic / Randall C. Reeder
- Copper / Judith F. Pedler and David R. Parker
- Cover Crops / Jorge A. Delgado, D. Wayne Reeves, and Ronald F. Follett
- Crop Evapotranspiration: Measurement System / Huanjie Cai, Pute Wu, Zhijun Li, Xiaotao Hu, and Yufeng Zou
- Crop Management: Seasonally Frozen Soil / Brenton S. Sharratt
- Crop Plants: Phosphorus Availability / Bettina Eichler-Löbermann and Ewald Schnug
- Crop Residue Management / David L. Schertz and Dan Towery
- Crop Root Response to Temperature: Temperate Zone / Thomas C. Kaspar
- Crop Rotation and Farming Systems: Temperate Zone / Martin R. Carter
- Crop Rotation and Farming Systems: Tropical Smallholder Farm Systems / Stefan Hauser, Lindsey Norgrove, and Tarcisius Nyobe
- Crop Rotation and Farming Systems: Tropics and Subtropics and Swelling Soils / D.M. Freebairn, G.D. Smith, Robin D. Connolly, and Jeff N. Tullberg
- Crop Yield: Compaction / Muhammad Ishaq and Rattan Lal
- Croplands / B.A. Stewart
- Crops: Flooding Tolerance / Tara T. VanToai, Getachew Boru, and Jianhuan Zhang
- Cultivation: Raised-Bed / Kenneth D. Sayre
- Culture: Soil-less / Nazim Gruda, Giorgio Prosdocimi Gianquinto, Yuksel Tuzel, and Dimitrios Savvas
- Cycling: Carbon and Nitrogen (C/N) / Sylvie M. Brouder and Ronald F. Turco
- D
- Debris Flow / Jau-Yau Lu
- Degradation / Rosa M. Poch Claret and José A. Martínez-Casasnovas
- Degradation: Biological / Ibrahim Ortaş
- Degradation: Chemical / M. Rifat Derici
- Degradation: Critical Limits and Irreversible Degradation / Anthony R. Dexter and Michael A. Zoebisch
- Degradation: Economic Incentives and Investments / Dennis Wichelns
- Degradation: Farm-Level Economic Implications / Dennis Wichelns and Ellen Burnes
- Degradation: Food Aid Needs in Low-Income Countries / Shahla Shapouri and Stacey Rosen
- Degradation: Food Security and Poverty / Pierre Crosson
- Degradation: Greenhouse Effect / Eddy De Pauw and Michael A. Zoebisch
- Degradation: Mapping by Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) / Zhanquo Bai and David Dent
- Degradation: Off-Farm Economic Implications / Dennis Wichelns and Ellen Burnes
- Degradation: Physical / Michael A. Zoebisch and Anthony R. Dexter
- Degradation: Quality and / Rattan Lal
- Desertification: Biological Productivity Decline / Uriel N. Safriel
- Desertification: Extent / Victor R. Squires
- Desertification: Greenhouse Effect / Craig Idso and Sherwood E. Idso
- Desertification: Humid Environment in Iceland / Andres Arnalds
- Desertification: Impact / David A. Mouat and Judith Lancaster
- Desertification: Mapping Constraints and Challenges / Pandi Zdruli, Michael Cherlet, and Claudio Zucca
- Desertification: Prevention and Restoration / Claudio Zucca, Susana Bautista, and Franco Previtali
- Desertification: Productivity / Kris M. Havstad
- Desertification: Restoration / Alon Tal
- Desertification: Reversal / David Tongway and John Ludwig
- Desertization: Irreversible Extension of Desert Land / Henry Noel LeHouérou
- Developing Countries: Economics of Soil Management / Stefano Pagiola
- Diagnostic Horizons / E.M. Bridges
- Diffusivity: Measurement / Toru Nakajima
- Digital Soil Mapping / Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney, and Florence Carré
- Drainage: Aeration and Trafficability / Norman R. Fausey
- Drainage: Anaerobiosis / Robert O. Evans
- Drainage: Water Quality / James L. Baker
- Drought: Drought Resistance / Graeme C. Wright and Nageswararao C. Rachaputi
- Drought: Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, and Soil Moisture / Joshua B. Fisher and Konstantinos M. Andreadis
- E
- Earthworms / Patrick J. Bohlen
- Eco-Agriculture / Norman Uphoff and Janice E. Thies
- Ecology: Cycling of Carbon and Nitrogen / Alan J. Franzluebbers
- Economics of Soil Management: U.S. / Jeffrey W. Hopkins
- Ecosystems: Life Attributes and Environment / Dennis R. Linden
- Enchytraeidae / María Jesús Iglesias Briones
- Entisols / Larry T. West
- Environmentally Friendly Indigenous Technologies / Selim Kapur and Erhan Akça
- Enzymes / Veronica Acosta-Martinez and Susanne Klose
- Erosion / Dennis C. Flanagan
- Erosion Management: Hill Soils / Narendra Kumar Lenka and B. Krishna Rao
- Erosion Tolerance / David L. Schertz and Mark A. Nearing
- Erosion: Aggregate Breakdown Mechanisms / Yves Le Bissonnais
- Erosion: Agronomic Practices / Glenn A. Weesies, David L. Schertz, and William F. Kuenstler
- Erosion: Assessment / John Boardman
- Erosion: Carbon Dioxide / Pierre A. Jacinthe and Rattan Lal
- Erosion: Controlling Irrigation-Induced / Robert E. Sojka and David L. Bjorneberg
- Erosion: Crop Yield / Michael Stocking
- Erosion: Disturbed Lands / William J. Elliot
- Erosion: Effects on Human Life / Neroli Pedro Cogo and Renato Levien
- Erosion: Fly-Ash Spheres as Time Marker / Kenneth R. Olson and Alexander N. Gennadiyev
- Erosion: Global Change / Xingxiang Wang, Taolin Zhang, Longxi Cao, and Yin Liang
- Erosion: On-Site and Off-Site Impacts / Jerry L. Hatfield
- Erosion: Overland Research and Measurement Techniques / Chia Chun Joseph Wu
- Erosion: Perennial Crop Plantations / Alfred E. Hartemink
- Erosion: Sedimentation Control Amendment Techniques / X.-C. (John) Zhang
- Erosion: Sedimentation Control Vegetative Techniques / Samson D. Angima
- Erosion: Snowmelt / Donald K. McCool
- Erosion: Soil Conservation / Eric T. Craswell
- Erosion: Water Quality / Andreas Klik
- Erosivity and Erodibility / Peter I.A. Kinnell
- Volume II: Ethics—Pollution
- E
- Ethics / John Ronald Engel
- Eutrophication / Thomas G. Franti and Kyle D. Hoagland
- Evaporation / William P. Kustas
- Evolution: Soil Seed Bank / Paul B. Cavers and David Susko
- F
- Fauna / Mary C. Savin
- Fauna and Microflora: Macrofauna / Judy Tisdall
- Fertility Decline: Definitions and Assessment / Alfred E. Hartemink
- Fertility: Environmentally Compatible Management / Bal Ram Singh
- Fertility: Evaluation Systems / Ram C. Dalal and A. Subba Rao
- Fertility: Low Input and Traditional Maintenance Methods / Miguel Altieri
- Fertility: North China Plains / Xiangbin Kong and Rattan Lal
- Fertilizers: Application Methods / John Ryan
- Fertilizers: Leaching Losses / Paul G. Saffigna and Ian R. Phillips
- Fertilizers: Mineral / L.L. Hammond and Balu L. Bumb
- Fertilizers: Organic / Gary J. Gascho
- Fertilizers: Types and Formulations / Douglas Robert McGuffog
- Fertilizers: Urban Waste and Sludges / Rory O. Maguire and James Thomas Sims
- Fire and Soils / Partap K. Khanna and John Raison
- Fluid Flow: Modeling / John L. Nieber
- Food Crops: Zinc and Iron Biofortification / Yashbir Singh Shivay and Rajendra Prasad
- Food Security and Soil Water Management / Mark W. Rosegrant, Ephraim Nkonya, and Rowena A. Valmonte-Santos
- Food Security: Agricultural Productivity and Resources / Keith D. Wiebe
- Food Security: Soil Degradation, Global Scale / Michael A. Zoebisch and Eddy De Pauw
- Food Security: Soil Degradation, Local and Eco-Regional Scale / Sara J. Scherr
- Forest Soils / Nicholas Comerford and Thomas Fox
- Forest Soils: Calcium Depletion / Tom G. Huntington
- Forest Soils: Major / Ken Van Rees
- Forest Soils: Nutrient Cycling / Neil W. Foster and Jagtar S. Bhatti
- Forest Soils: Properties and Site Productivity / Paul A. Arp and Helmut H. Krause
- Freeze and Thaw: Diurnal / Joseph L. Pikul
- Frozen Soils: Water Relations / John M. Baker
- Fungi / Serita Frey
- Future of Soil Science / Eric C. Brevik, Samuel J. Indorante, Dylan E. Beaudette, and Richard W. Arnold
- G
- Gas and Vapor Phase Transport / Dennis E. Rolston
- Gelisols / James G. Bockheim
- Geologic Carbon Capture and Storage / Sean I. Plasynski, John T. Litynski, Timothy R. Carr, Howard G. McIlvried, and Rameshwar D. Srivastava
- Geology and Soil / Kenneth R. Olson
- Geomorphology / Robin N. Thwaites
- Geophysical Methods / Barry J. Allred, Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Jim Doolittle, Robert S. Freeland, Katherine R. Grote, and Dennis L. Corwin
- Geostatistics / Anja Gassner and Ewald Schnug
- GIS Integration: Remote Sensing / Egide Nizeyimana
- Global Resources / Paul Reich and Hari Eswaran
- Grass Strip Hydrology / Hossein Ghadiri and Calvin W. Rose
- Grasslands Soils / Douglas D. Malo
- Grazing Lands: Gaseous Emissions / Lipismita Samal, Veerasamy Sejian, M. Bagath, R.U. Suganthi, Raghavendra Bhatta, and Rattan Lal
- Green Revolution: China North Eastern Plains / Xiangbin Kong and Rattan Lal
- Greenhouse Effect / Rattan Lal
- Growing Media / Nazim Gruda, Jean Caron, Munoo Prasad, and Michael Maher
- Gulley Erosion / Fenli Zheng, Chihua Huang, and Ximeng Xu
- Gypsic Soils / Juan Herrero and Jaime Boixadera
- Gypsic Soils: Gypsum Formation / Ahmet R. Mermut and Hossein Khademi
- H
- Hard-Setting Soils / Richard S.B. Greene
- Health / Robin F. Harris and D.E. Romig
- Heat and Water Movement / Gerald N. Flerchinger
- Heat Capacity / Surinder Kumar Jalota and B.S. Ghuman
- Heat Flux / Thomas J. Sauer
- Heavy Metals / Mike J. McLaughlin
- History of Soil Science / Eric C. Brevik and Artemi Cerdà
- History of Soil Science: 1927–2000 / Fred P. Miller
- History of Soil Science: Early to Mid-20th Century / John P. Tandarich
- Histosols / David L. Lindbo and Deborah A. Kozlowski
- Human Culture and Soils / Daniel Hillel
- Human Dimensions: Soil Sustainability / Mary Seely, Patrik Klintenberg, and Claus Hager
- Human Health and Soil / Charles F. Sing and David B. Sing
- Human Society and Soil / Rattan Lal
- Human Society and the Planet: Soil as a Heritage / Fred P. Miller
- Hydraulic Conductivity / Jacob H. Dane, Marc Jalbert, and Jan W. Hopmans
- Hydrologic Cycle / Keith R.J. Smettem
- Hydropedology / Henry Lin
- Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Compounds / Tomas Simon
- Hydrophobicity / Joerg Bachmann, Abraham Marmur, and Markus Deurer
- I
- Inceptisols / John M. Galbraith, Kenneth Scheffe, and Shawn McVey
- India: Problems and Potentialities / S.K. Singh, S. Chattaraj, N.G. Patil, S.K. Ray, and S. Chatterji
- Indigenous Soil Management / Karl Herweg
- Indo-Gangetic Plain: Agro-Ecological Regions / Jaya N. Surya, R.P. Yadav, G.S. Sidhu, and S.K. Singh
- Industrial Waste / Warren Dick
- Infiltration: Management / Jutta Rogasik, Kerstin Panten, Ewald Schnug, and Helmut Rogasik
- Infiltration: Properties / Walter J. Rawls
- Inorganic Carbon: Analysis / Richard R. Drees and C. Tom Hallmark
- Inorganic Carbon: Climate and Time / Lee C. Nordt
- Inorganic Carbon: Composition and Formation / H. Curtis Monger and Larry P. Wilding
- Inorganic Carbon: Global Carbon Cycle / William H. Schlesinger
- Inorganic Carbon: Global Stocks / Larry P. Wilding, Lee C. Nordt, and John M. Kimble
- Inorganic Carbon: Land Use Impacts / Donald L. Suarez
- Inorganic Carbon: Modeling / Leslie D. McFadden and Ronald G. Amundson
- Insect Survival: Subzero Temperature / Mike M. Ellsbury
- Integrated Nutrient Management / Bal Ram Singh and Ram C. Dalal
- Integrated Nutrient Management: Sustainability / G.S. Saroa and Rattan Lal
- International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) / David Dent
- International Union of Soil Sciences / Stephen Nortcliff
- Ion Exchange / Bryon W. Bache
- Iron Oxides / Nikolla P. Qafoku and James Amonette
- Irrigation / Jack Keller
- Irrigation: Efficiency / Terry A. Howell
- Irrigation: Erosion / Robert E. Sojka and David L. Bjorneberg
- Irrigation: Historical Perspective / Robert E. Sojka, David L. Bjorneberg, and J.A. Entry
- Irrigation: Soil Salinity / James D. Rhoades
- J
- Jhum: Cultivation / Arun Jyoti Nath, Biplab Brahma, Rattan Lal, and Ashesh Kumar Das
- Jhum: Shifting Agriculture / P.S. Ramakrishnan
- L
- Land Capability Analysis / Michael J. Singer
- Land Capability Classification / Thomas E. Fenton
- Land Evaluation / J. Herbert Huddleston
- Land Forms / Carolyn G. Olson
- Land Husbandry / Francis Shaxson and Malcolm Douglas
- Land Restoration / Richard W. Bell
- Land Use: Historic / J. Douglas Helms, Hari Eswaran, and Paul Reich
- Land Use: Land Cover / Andrew K. Skidmore
- Land Use: Planning and Geographic Information System (GIS) / Egide Nizeyimana and Jacob Opadeyi
- Landfill Sites: Revegetation / Gilbert Yuk-sing Chan and Ming H. Wong
- Landscape / George Hall
- Landscape: Classification / Philip Schoeneberger
- Landscape: Development and Erosion / Jon Harbor
- Landscape: Elements / Douglas Wysocki and C. William Zanner
- Landscape: Relationships / Timothy A. Quine
- Landslide and Landcreep / Jau-Yau Lu and Hao-Jung Shieh
- Law and Legal Issues / Ian Hannam and Ben Boer
- Law and Legal Issues: Land as Property / Paul Martin and John Page
- Leaching and Illuviation / Lynn E. Moody
- Liming and Lime Materials / Mark K. Conyers
- Loess / Fred E. Rhoton and Helaine W. Markewich
- Loess Plateau / Fenli Zheng, Ximeng Xu, and Xiubin He
- Low-Carbon Technology: Brazilian Semiarid Ecosystems / Antonio Pereira Filho, Vanderlise Giongo, Tony Jarbas Ferreira Cunha, Jose Texeira Filho, Tayane de Lima Santos, and Luiz Fernando Carvalho Leite
- Lower Himalayas: Soil Management / Anup Das, Ramkrushna Gi, Badapmain Makdoh, Dibyendu Sarkar, Jayanta Layek, Sandip Mandal, and Rattan Lal
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- Macroporosity / Daniel Gimenez and Daniel Hirmas
- Magnesium / N.S. Bolan, K. Arulmozhiselvan, and P. Paramasivam
- Manganese: Brazilian Soils / Diego Antonio França de Freitas, Nilton Curi, and Nestor Kämpf
- Manure Management: Gaseous Emissions / Veerasamy Sejian, Lipismita Samal, M. Bagath, R.U. Suganthi, Raghavendra Bhatta, and Rattan Lal
- Manure: Compost and Biosolids / Bahman Eghball and Kenneth A. Barbarick
- Mapping Soil Carbon / Budiman Minasny, Brendan Malone, and Alex B. McBratney
- Mapping Soil Carbon: Stocks in Turkey / Gönül Aydin, Mehmet Ali Çullu, Sabit Erşahin, Erhan Akça, Emrah Erdogan, Levent Atatanir, Alper Yorulmaz, Ahmet Çilek, Merve Ersoy, Somayyeh Rezzaghi Miavaghi, Selim Kapur, and Rattan Lal
- Materials and Soils / Selim Kapur, Erhan Akça, and Takanori Nagano
- Mediterranean Agriculture: Rainfed, Nitrogen Use Efficiency / Àngela D. Bosch Serra
- Metal—Clay Interactions / Dean Hesterberg
- Microbial Biomass: Measurement / K.R. Islam and S.R. Wright
- Microbial Communities / K.R. Islam and S.R. Wright
- Micromorphology and Soil Quality / Ahmet R. Mermut
- Micronutrients and Human Health / Ram Phal Narwal, R.S. Malik, S.K. Malhotra, and Bal Ram Singh
- Mine Soils: Measuring Geogenic Carbon / David A.N. Ussiri and Rattan Lal
- Mine Soils: Miscanthus Platations / Jose G. Guzman and Rattan Lal
- Mine Soils: Open Cut Mine Rehabilitation / Douglas J. Dollhopf
- Mine Soils: Reclamation and Soil Carbon Sequestration / Vasant A. Akala and Rattan Lal
- Minerals: Amorphous / April L. Ulery
- Minerals: Primary / Nikolaos I. Barbayiannis and Vissarion Z. Keramidas
- Minerals: Secondary / Deborah A. Soukup
- Minerals: Solubility / Wayne P. Robarge
- Minirhizotron / Verónica Muñoz-Romero, Luis López-Bellido, F. Javier López-Bellido, and Rafael J. López-Bellido
- Mites / Hans Klompen
- Modern Civilization and Soils / Kenneth R. Olson
- Mulch Farming / Rattan Lal
- Mycorrhiza of Forest Ecosystems / Ian A. Dickie
- Mycorrhizae: Soil Quality / Ibrahim Ortaş
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- Nanofertilizers / Ruiqiang Liu and Rattan Lal
- Natural Resources: Interaction with Soil / Dennis J. Greenland
- Nematodes / Christien H. Ettema
- Nematodes and Soil / Wilfrida Decraemer
- Nexus Approach: Resource Management for Soil Productivity / Kai Schwärzel, Reza Ardakanian, Tamara Avellán, and Lulu Zhang
- Nitrate Leaching Index / Harold M. van Es and Jorge A. Delgado
- Nitrate Leaching Management / John J. Meisinger, Jorge A. Delgado, and Ashok Alva
- Nitrogen and its Transformations / Oswald Van Cleemput and Pascal Boeckx
- Nitrogen Index / Jorge A. Delgado
- Nitrogen-15: Utilization / Jorge Benitez-Vega, Luis López-Bellido, Ramón Redondo, and Rafael J. López-Bellido
- Nitrous Oxide Emissions: Agricultural Soils / John R. Freney
- Nitrous Oxide Emissions: Paddy Soils / Jianfu Xue, Xin Zhao, and Hailin Zhang
- Nitrous Oxide Emissions: Sources, Sinks, and Strategies / Katsu Minami
- No Till / Paul W. Unger
- Nutrient Management / Jorge A. Delgado
- Nutrient Management: Fertility and / John L. Havlin
- Nutrients: Deficiency and Toxicity Symptoms / Noel J. Grundon
- Nutrients: Diffusion, Bioavailability, and Plant Uptake / Niels Erik Nielsen
- Nutrients: Interactions in Soil—Plant System / Fusuo S. Zhang, J. Shen, and Y.-G. Zhu
- Nutrients: Water Interactions / Ardell D. Halvorson
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- Organic Agriculture / Kathleen Delate
- Organic Carbon: Assessment Methods / K.R. Islam
- Organic Carbon: Sequestration Concepts / Kenneth R. Olson
- Organic Carbon: Subsoil Pools / Klaus Lorenz and Rattan Lal
- Organic Farming: China / Yuxin Miao, Fusuo Zhang, and Fanghao Wang
- Organic Fertilization: Heavy Metal Uptake / Ewald Schnug, Alexandra Izosimova, and Renata Gaj
- Organisms and Soil Food Webs / David C. Coleman
- Organo-Mineral Relationships / Claire Chenu, Alain F. Plante, and Pascale Puget
- Oxisols / Stanley W. Buol
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- Pampas, The / Martín Díaz-Zorita and Daniel E. Buschiazzo
- Pantanal, The / Henrique de Oliveira, Amaury de Carvalho Filho, Carlos Ernesto Reynauld G. Schaefer, and Evaldo Luis Cardoso
- Paramos Soils / Pascal Podwojewski and Jérôme Poulenard
- Particle Density / Keith R.J. Smettem
- Particle Packing / Satish C. Gupta and D.P. Thoma
- Particle Shape / Brian M. Schafer
- Particle Size / Hwat Bing So and Harold R. Geering
- Peatlands / Dale H. Vitt and Paul Short
- Pedological Modeling / Ronald G. Amundson
- Pedometrics / Alex B. McBratney and Budiman Minasny
- Pedotransfer Functions / J.H.M. Wösten
- Permafrost: Soil Temperature and Special Problems / Douglas Kane and Julia Boike
- Petrocalcic Horizons / Alain Ruellan
- pH / Grant W. Thomas
- Phosphorus / John Ryan and Abdul Rashid
- Phosphorus: Manure and Diet Modification / Rory O. Maguire, John T. Brake, and Peter W. Plumstead
- Phosphorus: Plant Nutrition and Microorganism Contribution / Bettina Eichler-Löbermann, Christel Baum, Silke Ruppel, and Ewald Schnug
- Phosphorus: Spatial Speciation in Agricultural Soils / Anja Gassner and Ewald Schnug
- Phytoremediation / Khan Towhid Osman and Md. Abul Kashem
- Plant Growth: Oxygen Diffusion Rate / Witold Stepniewski
- Plant Nutrients / Volker Roemheld
- Plant Nutrients: Intensity, Quantity, and Buffer Power / Ram C. Dalal
- Plant Nutrients: Sufficiency and Requirements / Kanwar L. Sahrawat
- Plastic Properties / Gunnar Kirchhof
- Plinthite and Petroplinthite / Eswaran Padmanabhan and Hari Eswaran
- Podzols / Peter Buurman
- Polar Regions, The / Charles Tarnocai and Iain Campbell
- Pollution / Zulkuf Kaya
- Pollution: Industrial Waste / Winfried E.H. Blum, Walter W. Wenzel, Wolfgang Friesl-Hanl, and Martin H. Gerzabek
- Pollution: Non-Point Source / Ravendra Naidu, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Peter Dillon, Rai Kookana, Ray Correll, and Walter W. Wenzel
- Pollution: Organic and Inorganic / A. Paul Schwab
- Pollution: Persistent Organic / Mark Radosevich and E. Danielle Rhine
- Pollution: Point Source / Ravendra Naidu, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Peter Dillon, Rai Kookana, Ray Correll, and Walter W. Wenzel
- Volume III: Porosity through World
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- Porosity: Pore Size Distribution / Keith C. Cameron and Graeme D. Buchan
- Potassium / Philippe Hinsinger
- Potassium: Dynamics and Mineralogy / A.V. Shanwal and S.S. Dahiya
- Potassium: Nutrition in Semi-Arid Tropics / D.L. Oswalt
- Power Plants: Carbon Dioxide Capture / Sean I. Plasynski, Thomas J. Feeley, Timothy Fout, Howard G. McIlvried, and Rameshwar D. Srivastava
- Precision Agriculture: Engineering Aspects / Joel T. Walker, Reza Ehsani, and Matthew O. Sullivan
- Precision Agriculture: Fertilization / Silvia H. Haneklaus and Ewald Schnug
- Precision Agriculture: Nutrient Cycling / Robert J. Lascano
- Precision Agriculture: Remote Sensing / Kerstin Panten, Holger Lilienthal, Erik Zillmann, Silvia H. Haneklaus, and Ewald Schnug
- Productivity: Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances / Douglas G. Maynard and Charlotte E. Norris
- Protection: Policy of the European Union / Irene L. Heuser and Luca Montanarella
- Protozoa / Bryan S. Griffiths
- Pyrite / Michael J. Borda
- Pyrogenic Carbon / Barry G. Rawlins
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- Quality / Ed G. Gregorich
- Quality Index: Soil / Toru Nakajima
- Quality: Assessment by Interpolation Techniques / Vincent Obade
- Quality: Carbon and Nitrogen Gases / Philippe Rochette, Reynald Lemke, and Sean McGinn.
- Quality: Critical Limits and Standardization / Martin R. Carter
- Quality: Erosion / Craig Ditzler
- Quality: Indicators / Graham P. Sparling
- Quality: Productivity / Mike H. Beare
- Quality: Soil and Water / Todd Nissen and Michelle Wander
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- Radiometric Survey / Barry G. Rawlins and Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel
- Radionuclides / Philip M. Jardine
- Raindrop Impact and Splash Erosion / Hossein Ghadiri
- Rapid Soil Analysis: Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy / Keith D. Shepherd and Markus G. Walsh
- Rare Earth Elements / Zhengyi Hu, Gerd Sparovek, Silvia H. Haneklaus, and Ewald Schnug.
- Redox Phenomena / Bruce R. James
- Rehabilitation: Indicators and Monitoring / David Jasper
- Religious Aspects of Soil—Human Relationships / Verena Winiwarter and Winfried E.H. Blum
- Rendzina / Thomas E. Fenton
- Resilience / Moses M. Tenywa, J.G.M. Majaliwa, and A. Lufafa
- Resilience: Land Use and Soil Management / Soojin J. Park
- Resilience: Quality and / Rattan Lal
- Resilience: Restoration / F.W.T. Penning de Vries and Eric T. Craswell
- Respiration / Pierre A. Jacinthe and Rattan Lal
- Restoration Ecology / Richard Hobbs
- Restoration: Success and Completion Criteria / Sam C. Ward
- Rice Paddies: Methane Emissions / Ronald L. Sass
- Rice Paddies: Methane Emissions, Mitigating / Kazuyuki Yagi
- Rice Paddies: Methanogenesis / Ronald L. Sass
- Rice Paddies: Soil Management / Xin Zhao, Jianfu Xue, and Hailin Zhang
- Rocks / Vsevolod V. Dobrovolsky
- Root Growth: Pressure at the Soil—Root Interface / Rabi K. Misra
- Root Monitoring System / Zhikuan Jia, Pute Wu, Qingfang Han, Junfeng Nie, Ruixia Ding, and Yufeng Zou
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- Salt-Affected Soils / Anna Eynard, Rattan Lal, and Keith D. Wiebe
- Salt-Affected Soils: Nitrous Oxide Emissions / G.S. Dheri, Babu S. Brar, and Debankur Sanyal
- Satellite Mapping / Bruce E. Frazier
- Scaling Effects / Yakov A. Pachepsky, Walter J. Rawls, and John W. Crawford
- Sediment: Influence on Aquatic Life / Suzanne M. Gray
- Sedimentation Control and Erosion: Engineering Techniques / Jose Miguel Reichert and Elemar Antonino Cassol
- Seepage / Patricia M. Gallagher
- Selenium / Gunnar Gissel-Nielsen
- Serpentinitic Soils / Rebecca Burt and Michael A. Wilson
- Sesquioxides / Joey N. Shaw and Larry T. West
- Shrinkage / Des McGarry and Don F. Yule
- Silica: Pedogenic Accumulation / Katherine J. Kendrick
- Silicon and Sodium / Jian Feng Ma
- Slaking, Dispersion, and Crust Formation / Hwat Bing So
- Social and Behavioral Sciences’ Contribution to Soil Science / Sven B. Lundstedt
- Sodic Soils / Pichu Rengasamy
- Sodic Soils: Formation and Global Distribution / Brian Murphy
- Sodic Soils: Humid Regions / Samuel J. Indorante
- Sodic Soils: Irrigation Farming / David Burrow
- Sodic Soils: Physical Properties and Behavior / Hwat Bing So
- Sodic Soils: Processes, Characteristics, and Classification / Pichu Rengasamy
- Sodic Soils: Reclamation / Jock Churchman
- Sodicity: Subsoil / Kwong Yin Chan
- Soil Carbon Map: Africa / Arwyn Jones, Roland Hiederer, and Luca Montanarella
- Soil Carbon Sequestration: Ethiopia / Ambachew Demessie, Bal Ram Singh, and Rattan Lal
- Soil Carbon: Compositional and Isotopic Analysis / James Moran, M. Lizabeth Alexander, and Alexander Laskin
- Soil Carbon: Farming and Economic Aspects / Bruce A. McCarl
- Soil Conservation: Incentives / David Sanders
- Soil Conservation: Strategies / Winfried E.H. Blum
- Soil Conservation: U.S. Historical Perspective / Dana D. York
- Soil Degradation: Global Assessment / Selim Kapur and Erhan Akça
- Soil Enzymes / Cherukumalli Srinivasa Rao, Minakshi Grover, Sumanta Kundu, and Susheelendra Desai
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM) / Rattan Lal
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Accumulation / Sylvie A. Quideau
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Available Water Capacity / Tom G. Huntington
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Characterization / Christian Feller
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Composition and Dynamics / Cornelia Rumpel, M.F. Dignac, and Abad Chabbi
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Global Carbon Cycle / Keith Paustian
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Global Distribution / Wilfred M. Post
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Historical Concepts / Christian Feller
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Landscape / Henry H. Janzen, B.H. Ellert, and D.W. Anderson
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Management / R. Cesar Izaurralde and Carlos C. Cerri
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis / Nikola Tolic, Malak M. Tfaily, Yufeng Shen, Rosalie Chu, Thomas Fillmore, Rui Zhao, Kent Bloodsworth, Errol Robinson, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić, and Nancy J. Hess
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Modeling / Peter Smith
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Molecular Simulations / Amity Andersen
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Nutrient Dynamics / Charles W. Rice
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Solvent-Based High Resolution Mass Spectrometry / Malak M. Tfaily, Yufeng Shen, Nikola Tolic, Jennifer Kyle, Rosalie Chu, Thomas Fillmore, Rui Zhao, Kent Bloodsworth, Errol Robinson, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić, and Nancy J. Hess
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Structure and Characterization / Georg Guggenberger
- Soil Organic Matter (SOM): Turnover / Johan Six and Julie D. Jastrow
- Soluble Salts: Translocation and Accumulation / Jimmie L. Richardson
- Solute Transport / Arne E. Olsen and James W. Jawitz
- Spectral Mixtures: Soil—Plant / Alfredo R. Huete
- Spodosols / Delbert Mokma
- Strontium / Silvia H. Haneklaus and Ewald Schnug
- Structure / Eileen J. Kladivko
- Structure: Belowground Management / Ken A. Olsson and Bruce Cockroft
- Structure: Earthworms / Martin Shipitalo and Tayfun Korucu
- Structure: Pedological Concepts and Water Flow / Clinton C. Truman and Donald P. Franzmeier
- Structure: Plant Establishment / Douglas L. Karlen
- Structure: Roots / Alvin J.M. Smucker
- Sub-Irrigation / Norman R. Fausey
- Sugarcane Fields: Harvest Systems and Residue Management / Newton La Scala Jr., Ricardo De Oliveira Bordonal, Eduardo Barretto De Figueiredo, Alan Rodrigo Panosso, Mara Regina Moitinho, and Mariana Marotti Corradi
- Sulfate and Sulfide Minerals / Delvin S. Fanning and Steven N. Burch
- Sulfur / Ewald Schnug, Silvia H. Haneklaus, and Elke Bloem
- Sulfur: Chemical Behavior in the Rhizosphere / Zhengyi Hu, Silvia H. Haneklaus, and Ewald Schnug
- Sulfur: Nutrition / Silvia H. Haneklaus, Elke Bloem, and Ewald Schnug
- Surface Area: Specific / L.A. Graham Aylmore
- Surface Management / Kwong Yin Chan
- Surface Water: Nitrogen Enrichment / Tim P. Burt and Penny E. Widdison
- Surface Water: Pollution by Nitrogen Fertilizers / Gregory McIsaac
- Sustainable Agriculture: Social Aspects / Frederick H. Buttel
- Sustainable Agriculture: Soil Quality / John W. Doran and Ed G. Gregorich
- Sustainable Development and Sustainability / Alan D. Hecht and Joseph Fiksel
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- Tailings: Minerals Processing Residue Rehabilitation / Lloyd R. Hossner and Hamid Shahandeh
- Taxonomies: U.S. Soil Taxonomy and Indian Scenario / Tapas Bhattacharyya and Dilip Kumar Pal
- Taxonomy / Mark H. Stolt
- Temperature Measurement / Kevin McInnes
- Tepetates: Mexico / Jorge D. Etchevers, Claudia Hidalgo, C. Prat, and P. Quantin
- Termites / David E. Bignell and John A. Holt
- Terra Preta (Black Earths) / Kurt Spokas, Jose Marques Jr., Newton La Scala Jr., Ed Nater, and Diego S. Siqueira
- Terra Preta de Indio / Johannes Lehmann
- Testing / Yash P. Kalra and Jagtar S. Bhatti
- Texture / Harold R. Geering and Hwat Bing So
- Tillage Erosion: Description and Process / Michael J. Lindstrom
- Tillage Erosion: Measurement Techniques / David A. Lobb
- Tillage Erosion: Properties and Productivity Effects / Tom E. Schumacher
- Tillage Erosion: Relationship to Water Erosion / Gerard Govers
- Tillage Erosion: Terrace Formation / Seth M. Dabney and Dalmo A.N. Vieira
- Tillage: Gas Exchange / Donald C. Reicosky
- Tilth / Jerry L. Hatfield
- Time and Space: Soils in / Neil E. Smeck and C. Lee Burras
- Torrential Erosion: Himalayas / Ram Prashad Yadav
- Trace Metal Contamination / Åsgeir Rossebø Almås and Bal Ram Singh
- Tropics and Subtropics / Hari Eswaran and Eswaran Padmanabhan
- Turbations / Brad D. Lee and Robert C. Graham
- Turfgrass: Protection of Soil and Water / James A. Murphy and Stephanie L. Murphy
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- Ultisols / Joey N. Shaw
- Uranium Contamination / Ewald Schnug, Roberta Bottino Montolar Sparovek, Maria del Carmen Lamas, Sylvia L. Kratz, Jurgen Fleckenstein, and Susanne Schroetter
- Urban Lands: Abandoned / Joshua W. Beniston and William D. Shuster
- Urban Lands: and Construction Sites / Wolfgang Burghardt
- Urban Lands: Management / Klaus Lorenz
- Urban Wastewater for Irrigation: Heavy Metals / P.S. Minhas and K. Lal
- Urea: Subsoiling and Controlled Release / Tangyuan Ning, Rattan Lal, Zengjia Li, and Min Zhang
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- Value of Soil to Humans / Rattan Lal
- Variability / Josef H. Görres
- Variability: Spatial / Brian Slater
- Variable Charge Soils: Mineralogy and Chemistry / Eric Van Ranst, Nikolla P. Qafoku, Andrew Noble, and Ren-kou Xu
- Vertisols / Wouter A. Blokhuis
- Vertisols: Surface Crack Management / J. Somasundaram, Nishant K. Sinha, Ashok K. Patra, and Rattan Lal
- Vesicular Crusts / Patrick Drohan
- Village Bamboos / Arun Jyoti Nath, Ashesh Kumar Das, and Rattan Lal
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- Waste Rock and Overburden Dumps: Rehabilitation / Martin V. Fey, R.D. O’Brien, and A.J. Mills
- Wastewater: Treatment and Utilization in Irrigation / Yona Chen and Jorge Tarchitzky
- Water Conservation / Paul W. Unger
- Water Content / Tom J. Jackson
- Water Content: Passive and Active Microwave Remote Sensing / Eric D. Warner and Gary W. Petersen
- Water Erosion / David Favis-Mortlock
- Water Erosion: Empirical Models / John M. Laflen
- Water Erosion: Hybrid Models / Jeffrey G. Arnold, Kevin W. King, and Jimmy R. Williams
- Water Erosion: Modeling / Calvin W. Rose
- Water Erosion: Process-Based Modeling / Mark A. Nearing
- Water Infiltration / Manoj K. Shukla and Rattan Lal
- Water Management: Computer Modeling / Laj R. Ahuja and Liwang Ma
- Water Management: Harvesting / Gary W. Frasier
- Water Management: Use Efficiency / David C. Nielsen
- Water Measurement: Methods / Des McGarry
- Water Range: Least-Limiting / Alvaro Pires da Silva, Beverly D. Kay, Cássio A. Tormena, Silvia Imhoff, Douglas L. Karlen, and Joseph G. Benjamin
- Water Retention / Satish C. Gupta and Dong Wang
- Water: Plant-Available / Argyrios Gerakis and Joe T. Ritchie
- Water-Repellent Soils / Anna Eynard, Rattan Lal, and Keith D. Wiebe
- Watershed Approach / Timothy R. Green and Jan van Schilfgaarde
- Watershed Management: Remote Sensing and GIS Applications / A.V. Shanwal and S.P. Singh
- Weathering / Dominique Righi
- Weathering: Carbon Sequestration / William Berry Lyons, Jerry M. Bigham, Anne E. Carey, and Rattan Lal
- Wetlands / Ralph W. Tiner
- Wetlands: Biodiversity / Jean-Claude Lefeuvre and Virginie Bouchard
- Wetlands: Carbon Sequestration / Virginie Bouchard and Matthew Cochran
- Wetlands: Conservation Policy / Clayton Rubec
- Wetlands: Economic Value / Gayatri Acharya
- Wetlands: Gaseous Emissions / S.K. Nag
- Wetlands: Methane Emission / Anna Ekberg and Torben Røjle Christensen
- Wetlands: Sedimentation and Ecological Engineering / Timothy C. Granata and Jay F. Martin
- Wind Erosion: Climate Change / Alan Busacca and David Chandler
- Wind Erosion: Control Measures / Gary L. Tibke
- Wind Erosion: Environmental Effects / R. Scott Van Pelt
- Wind Erosion: Field Measurement / R. Scott Van Pelt and Ted M. Zobeck
- Wind Erosion: Global Hot Spots / Andrew Warren
- Wind Erosion: Micrometeorology / Giles F.S. Wiggs
- Wind Erosion: Modeling / Lawrence J. Hagen
- Wind Erosion: Principles / Larry D. Stetler
- Wind Erosion: Soil Quality and Productivity / John Leys
- Windblown Dust / Dale Gillette
- Wind-Driven Rain: Erosion / Gunay Erpul, L. Darrell Norton, and Donald Gabriels
- World Reference Base for Soil Resources / Peter Schad and Stefaan Dondeyne