Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series: Encyclopedia of Agrophysics

Editors: Glinski, Jan, Horabik, Jozef and Lipiec, Jerzy
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

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ISBN: 978-90-481-3584-4
Category: Science - Physics
Image Count: 422
Book Status: Available
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This Encyclopedia of Agrophysics will provide up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environment and plant production.

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  • About the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • A
  • Absorption
  • Absorptivity
  • Acoustic Emission
  • Acoustic Tomography
  • Adaptable Tillage
  • Adhesion
  • Adsorption
  • Adsorption Complex
  • Adsorption Energy and Surface Heterogeneity in Soils - Zofia Sokołowska and Stefan Sokołowski
  • Adsorption Energy of Water on Biological Materials - Jiří Blahovec
  • Advection
  • Aeration of Agricultural Products - Marek Molenda
  • Aeration of Soils and Plants - Witold Stępniewski
  • Aerodynamics
  • After Harvest Technology
  • Aggregate Stability
  • Aggregation Indices
  • Agricultural Products
  • Agricultural Raw Materials
  • Agriculture and Food Machinery, Application of Physics for Improving - Leszek Mieszkalski
  • Agroforestry Systems, Effects on Water Balance in Cropping Zone - Andrzej Kędziora
  • Agrogeology - Ward Chesworth
  • Agrophysical Objects (Soils, Plants, Agricultural Products, and Foods) - Jan Gliński
  • Agrophysical Properties and Processes - Jan Gliński, Józef Horabik and Jerzy Lipiec
  • Agrophysics: Physics Applied to Agriculture - Jan Gliński, Józef Horabik and Jerzy Lipiec
  • Air Entry Value
  • Air Flux (Resistance) in Plants and Agricultural Products - Agnieszka Kaleta and Krzysztof Górnicki
  • Air Humidity
  • Air Porosity
  • Algae, the Potential Source of Energy - Magdalena Frąc
  • Alkalinity, Physical Effects on Soils - Lajos Blaskó
  • Alternative Sources of Energy from Agriculture Biomass – A European Perspective - Piotr Kowalik
  • Alumino-Silicate Clay Minerals
  • Anaerobiosis
  • Angle of Repose
  • Anion Exchange Capacity
  • Anisotropy of Soil Physical Properties - Xinhua Peng
  • Anoxia and Hypoxia
  • Anthric Saturation
  • Arable Land Use
  • Attenuation
  • Atterberg Limits
  • Available Water (Capacity)
  • B
  • Backscattering - Bogusław Usowicz
  • Bedrock
  • Bending Properties of Plants - Jiří Blahovec
  • Bernoulli’s Principal
  • Binding Force (Plants)
  • Biochemical Responses to Soil Management Practices - Jan Koper and Małgorzata Brzezińska
  • Biocolloids: Transport and Retention in Soils - Tammo S. Steenhuis, Verónica L. Morales, M. Ekrem Cakmak, Anthony E. Salvucci and Wei Zhang
  • Biofilms in Soil - Mette Burmølle, Annelise Kjøller and Søren J. Sørensen
  • Biofilms in the Food Environment - Katarzyna Czaczyk and Kamila Myszka
  • Biogas
  • Biomass
  • Biomass as an Environmentally Benign Energy Source - Keith Openshaw
  • Biomechanics
  • Biomes
  • Biospeckle - Artur Zdunek
  • Biota
  • Biotechnology, Physical and Chemical Aspects - Zdzisław Targoński
  • Bound Water
  • Boussinesq Equation
  • Bowen Ratio
  • Bragg’s Law
  • Breads: Physical Properties - Renata Różyło and Janusz Laskowski
  • Brightness Temperature in Monitoring of Soil Wetness - Jerzy Usowicz
  • Bruise
  • Buffer Capacity of Soils - Mieczysław Hajnos
  • Bulk Density of Soils and Impact on Their Hydraulic Properties - Shmuel Assouline
  • Burrow
  • Bypass Flow in Soil - Horst H. Gerke
  • C
  • Caking
  • Caliche (Lime-Pan)
  • Canopy Structure
  • Capillarity
  • Capillary Fringe
  • Carbon Losses Under Dryland Conditions, Tillage Effects - Félix Moreno, José M. Murillo and Engracia Madejón
  • Carbon Nanotube
  • Catchment (Catchment Basin)
  • Cation Exchange Capacity
  • Cementation
  • Cereals, Evaluation of Utility Values - Dariusz Dziki and Janusz Laskowski
  • Chemical Imaging in Agriculture - Adam Paweł Kuczyński
  • Chemical Time Bomb, Relation to Soil Physical Conditions - Halina Smal
  • Chisel
  • Clay Minerals and Organo-Mineral Associates - Tatiana Victorovna Alekseeva
  • Claypan and its Environmental Effects - Stephen H. Anderson
  • Cleavage Plane
  • Climate Change: Environmental Effects - Miroslav Kutílek
  • Climate Risk
  • Climate Stress Mitigation Tillage
  • Clod
  • Clusters in Soils - David L. Pinskiy
  • Coagulation
  • Cohesion
  • Colloids
  • Color Composite (Multiband Photography)
  • Color in Food Evaluation - Seong Pal Kang
  • Color Indices, Relationship with Soil Characteristics - Manuel Sánchez-Marañón
  • Compactibility
  • Compaction of Soil
  • Compensatory Uptake
  • Compressibility
  • Compression Index
  • Compression Point
  • Compression Test, Triaxial
  • Conditioners, Effect on Soil Physical Properties - Ryszard Dębicki
  • Conductivity
  • Cone Index
  • Confined Compression Test
  • Consistency
  • Consolidation
  • Contact Area of Agricultural Tyres, Estimation - Etienne Diserens and Abdallah Alaoui
  • Continuity Equation
  • Contour-Furrow Irrigation
  • Controlled Traffic Farming - Thomas Anken and Martin Holpp
  • Conventional Tillage
  • Coulomb’s Law
  • Coupled Heat and Water Transfer in Soil - Joshua L. Heitman and Robert Horton
  • Cracking in Soils - Pascal Boivin
  • Crop Emergence, the Impact of Mechanical Impedance - W. R. Whalley and W. E. Finch-Savage
  • Crop Responses to Soil Physical Conditions - Jerzy Lipiec, Artur Nosalewicz and Jacek Pietrusiewicz
  • Crop Rotation
  • Crop Water Use Efficiency
  • Crop Yield Losses Reduction at Harvest, from Research to Adoption - Bogusław Szot, Mieczysław Szpryngiel and Jerzy Tys
  • Cropping Systems, Effects on Soil Physical Properties - Stephen H. Anderson
  • Crushing Strength
  • Crust
  • Cultivation Under Screens, Aerodynamics of Boundary Layers - Josef Tanny
  • Cumulative Infiltration
  • Cutan
  • Cyclic Compressibility
  • D
  • Darcy’s Law
  • Databases on Physical Properties of Plants and Agricultural Products - Agnieszka Kaleta and Krzysztof Górnicki
  • Databases of Soil Physical and Hydraulic Properties - Attila Nemes
  • Deflation
  • Deflocculation
  • Degradation of Soil
  • Denitrification
  • Density
  • Desertification: Indicators and Thresholds - Max Kuderna and Adam Zsolnay
  • Detachment
  • Deterministic Model
  • Dew Point
  • Dielectric Loss Tangent
  • Dielectric Properties of Agricultural Products - Stuart O. Nelson and Samir Trabelsi
  • Diffuse Double Layer (DDL) - Md. Abdul Mojid
  • Diffusion in Soils - Witold Stępniewski, Henryk Sobczuk and Marcin Widomski
  • Dilatancy
  • Discharge
  • Dispersion
  • Dispersivity
  • Diurnal Strains in Plants - Paweł Kojs and Tomasz Rusin
  • DNA in Soils: Mobility by Capillarity - Maria Teresa Ceccherini and Giacomo Pietramellara
  • Double Layer
  • Drainage
  • Drip Irrigation
  • Drought
  • Drought Stress, Effect on Soil Mechanical Impedance and Root (Crop) Growth - W. R. Whalley and L. J. Clark
  • Drying of Agricultural Products - Digvir S. Jayas and Chandra B. Singh
  • Duripan
  • Dynamic Load
  • E
  • Earthworms as Ecosystem Engineers - Patrick Lavelle
  • Ecohydrology - Maciej Zalewski
  • Ecosystem
  • Effective Rainfall
  • Elasticity
  • Elastoplasticity
  • Electrical Conductivity
  • Electrical Double Layer (Diffuse Layer, Double Layer)
  • Electrical Permeability
  • Electrical Properties of Agricultural Products - Zuzana Hlaváčová
  • Electrical Properties of Soils - Shmulik P. Friedman
  • Electrical Resistivity
  • Electrical Resistivity to Assess Soil Properties - Guy Richard, Maud Séger, Arlène Besson and Isabelle Cousin
  • Electrical Susceptibility
  • Electrochemical Measurements in Soils - Andrzej Bieganowski and Jolanta Cieśla
  • Electrokinetic (Zeta) Potential of Soils - Mieczysław Hajnos and Jolanta Cieśla
  • Electromagnetic Field
  • Electromagnetic Fields, Impact on Seed Germination and Plant Growth - Stanisław Pietruszewski
  • Elutriation
  • Eluviation
  • Emissivity
  • Empirical Model
  • Energetically Homogenous (Heterogenous) Surface
  • Energy Balance of Ecosystems - Andrzej Kędziora
  • Energy Balance of a Field
  • Enthalpy
  • Entropy
  • Environmental Conserving Tillage
  • Enzyme
  • Enzymes in Soils - Małgorzata Brzezińska
  • Erodibility of Soil
  • Erosion
  • Erosivity
  • Estimation of Quartz Content in Mineral Soils - Vlodek R. Tarnawski, Toshihiko Momose, Wey H. Leong and David J. W. Piper
  • Evaporation
  • Evapotranspiration - Viliam Novák
  • Exchange Complex
  • Exchangeable Ions
  • Extrusion, Effect on Physical and Chemical Properties - Leszek Mościcki
  • Exudate, Root
  • F
  • Fabric
  • Failure
  • Fatigue Strength
  • Fats: Rheological Characteristics - Fernanda Peyronel, Thamara Laredo and Alejandro G. Marangoni
  • Fertilizers (Mineral, Organic), Effect on Soil Physical Properties - Kuntal Hati and Kalikinkar Bandyoopadhay
  • Fick’s Law
  • Field Water Capacity - Karl Vanderlinden and Juan V. Giráldez
  • Fingering
  • Firmness
  • Fissures
  • Flexural Strength
  • Flocculation and Dispersion Phenomena in Soils - Emil Chibowski
  • Flooding, Effects on Soil Structure - Miguel A. Taboada, Patricia L. Fernández and Maria F. Varela
  • Flow
  • Flowability
  • Fluvial Erosion
  • Flux
  • Food Freezing
  • Food Machinery
  • Fourier’s Law
  • Fractal Analysis in Agrophysics - Yakov Pachepsky, Fernando San José Martínez and Miguel Angel Martín
  • Fracture
  • Fragipan
  • Friction
  • Friction Phenomena in Soils - Rainer Horn
  • Frozen Foods
  • Fruits, Mechanical Properties and Bruise Susceptibility - Margarita Ruiz-Altisent and Guillermo P. Moreda
  • Funnel Flow
  • Furrow
  • Furrow Erosion
  • Furrow Irrigation
  • G
  • Gas Exchange In Soils
  • Gases Sink
  • Geologic Erosion
  • Geostatistics
  • Gibbs Free Energy
  • Grain Physics - Stanisław Grundas, Agnieszka Nawrocka and Josef Pecen
  • Grains, Aerodynamic and Geometric Features - Bronisława Barbara Kram
  • Grass Fibers, Physical Properties - Majda Sfiligoj Smole and Silvo Hribernik
  • Gravimetric Water Content
  • Gravitational Potential
  • Gravity Head (Gravity Potential)
  • Grazing-Induced Changes of Soil Mechanical and Hydraulic Properties - Julia Krümmelbein
  • Greenhouse, Climate Control - Istvan Farkas
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: Effects of Physical Conditions - Ryusuke Hatano
  • Greenhouse Gases Sink in Soils - Teresa Włodarczyk
  • Ground-Penetrating Radar, Soil Exploration - Jim Doolittle
  • Groundwater
  • Gully (Linear) Erosion
  • H
  • Hardening
  • Hardpan
  • Hardpan Soils: Management - Warren J. Busscher
  • Hardsetting Soils: Physical Properties - Neyde Fabíola Balarezo Giarola, Herdjania Veras de Lima and Alvaro Pires da Silva
  • Harvest Technology
  • Heat Advection
  • Heat Balance
  • Heat Capacity
  • Heat Diffusion
  • Heat of Condensation
  • Heat of Sublimation
  • Heat of Vaporization
  • Heat of Wetting
  • Henry’s Law
  • Hooke’s Law
  • Horticulture Substrates, Structure and Physical Properties - Anna Słowińska-Jurkiewicz and Monika Jaroszuk-Sierocińska
  • Humus
  • Hydraulic Diffusivity
  • Hydraulic Gradient
  • Hydraulic Head
  • Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Soils - Martinus Th. van Genuchten and Yakov Pachepsky
  • Hydrodynamic Dispersion
  • Hydropedological Processes in Soils - Svatopluk Matula
  • Hydrophobicity
  • Hydrophobicity of Soil - Paul D. Hallett, Jörg Bachmann, Henryk Czachor, Emilia Urbanek and Bin Zhang
  • Hypobaric Storage
  • Hysteresis in Foods - Matthew Caurie
  • Hysteresis in Soil - Cezary Sławiński
  • I
  • Ice Erosion (Glacial Erosion, Thermal Erosion)
  • Illuviation
  • Image Analysis in Agrophysics - Magnus Persson
  • Imbibition
  • Indicator Plants
  • Infiltrability
  • Infiltration Capacity
  • Infiltration in Soils - Miroslav Kutílek
  • Insolation
  • Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin: Progress in Agrophysics - Józef Horabik and Grzegorz Józefaciuk
  • Institute of Agrophysics in Saint-Petersburg: Roots of Agrophysics - Igor B. Uskov and Victor P. Yakushev
  • Integrated Drainage
  • Interception
  • Interflow
  • Internal Drainage
  • Interrill Erosion
  • Intersecting Surfaces Approach (Isa)
  • Intrinsic Permeability
  • Ion Exchange
  • Ion Hydration
  • Irrigation and Drainage, Advantages and Disadvantages - Lajos Blaskó
  • Irrigation Water Use Efficiency
  • Irrigation with Treated Wastewater, Effects on Soil Structure - Guy J. Levy
  • Isoelectric Point
  • Isotopes
  • Isotropy and Anisotropy in Agricultural Products and Foods - Józef Horabik and Marek Molenda
  • K
  • Kernel
  • Kinematic Viscosity
  • Kirchhoff’s Laws
  • Kriging
  • L
  • Laminar and Turbulent Flow in Soils - Henryk Czachor
  • Laminar Flow
  • Land Reclamation
  • Landfill
  • Landslide
  • Laplace Equation
  • Latent Heat
  • Layered Soils, Water and Solute Transport - H. M. Selim
  • Leaching of Chemicals in Relation to Soil Structure - Tom M. Addiscott
  • Least Limiting Water Range (LLWR)
  • Light Interception by Plant Canopies - Pierre Dutilleul
  • Liming, Effects on Soil Properties - Tadeusz Filipek
  • Liquid Limit (Upper Plastic Limit, Atterberg Limit)
  • Loading
  • Lodging of Crops
  • Lysimeters: A Tool for Measurements of Soil Fluxes - Johann Fank
  • M
  • Machine Vision
  • Machine Vision in Agriculture - John Billingsley
  • Macropore Flow
  • Magnetic Properties of Soils - Andrey Alekseev
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Soil Science - Andreas Pohlmeier
  • Magnetic Treatment of Irrigation Water, Effects on Crops - Basant Maheshwari and Harsharn Grewal
  • Management Effects on Soil Properties and Functions - Rainer Horn
  • Mapping of Soil Physical Properties - Jan Gliński and Janusz Ostrowski
  • Matric Potential
  • Matrix of the Soil
  • Measurements Non-Destructive
  • Mechanical Impacts at Harvest and After Harvest Technologies - Zbigniew Ślipek and Jarosław Frączek
  • Mechanical Resilience of Degraded Soils - Heiner Fleige
  • Membranes, Role in Water Transport in the Soil–Root–Xylem System - Marian Kargol
  • Microbes and Soil Structure - Vadakattu Gupta
  • Microbes, Habitat Space, and Transport in Soil - Karl Ritz
  • Microcosm
  • Micro-Irrigation
  • Microstructure of Plant Tissue - Krystyna Konstankiewicz
  • Mineral Fertilizers
  • Mineralisation
  • Mineral–Organic–Microbial Interactions - Małgorzata Dąbek-Szreniawska and Eugene Balashov
  • Mire
  • Modeling the Thermal Conductivity of Frozen Foods - Vlodek R. Tarnawski, Wey H. Leong and Toshihiko Momose
  • Modulus of Elasticity (Young’s Modulus)
  • Modulus of Rigidity
  • Mohre Circle of Stress
  • Monitoring Physical Conditions in Agriculture and Environment - Wojciech M. Skierucha
  • Mualem Equation
  • Mulching
  • Mulching, Effects on Soil Physical Properties - Antonio Jordán, Lorena M. Zavala and Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
  • Munsell Color System
  • Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Osmotic Stress - Juan M. Ruiz-Lozano
  • N
  • Nanomaterials in Soil and Food Analysis - Subramanian Viswanathan
  • Nature Conservation Management - Tadeusz J. Chmielewski
  • Neural Networks in Agrophysics - Krzysztof Lamorski
  • Neural Networks in the Modeling of Drying Processes - Istvan Farkas
  • Nitrification
  • Nondestructive Measurements in Fruits - Francisco J. García-Ramos
  • Nondestructive Measurements in Soil - Wojciech M. Skierucha
  • Noninvasive Quantification of 3D Pore Space Structures in Soils - Stephan Peth
  • Non-Limiting Water Range (NLWR)
  • Non-Thermal Technologies
  • Normal Stress
  • Numerical Methods (Model)
  • O
  • Ohm’s Law
  • Online Measurement of Selected Soil Physical Properties - Abdul Mounem Mouazen
  • Organic Carbon in Soil
  • Organic Dusts, Electrostatic Properties - Wiktor Pietrzyk and Marek Horyński
  • Organic Farming, Effect on the Soil Physical Environment - Apostolos Papadopoulos
  • Organic Fertilizers
  • Organic Matter
  • Organic Matter, Effects on Soil Physical Properties and Processes - Rattan Lal
  • Ornamental Plants, Physical Properties - Paweł Szot
  • Ortstein, Physical Properties - Jacek Chodorowski
  • Osmosis
  • Osmotic Potential
  • Overburden Pressure
  • Overland Flow - Elias Dimitriou
  • Oxidation-Reduction Reactions in the Environment - Zofia Stępniewska
  • Oxygenology - Witold Stępniewski
  • P
  • Packing Density
  • Pan
  • Parent Material and Soil Physical Properties - Andrzej Mocek and Wojciech Owczarzak
  • Partial Pressure
  • Particle Density
  • Particle Film Technology - Michael Glenn
  • Particle-Size Distribution
  • Particulate Organic Matter
  • pe
  • Peatlands: Environmental Functions - Tadeusz J. Chmielewski and Danuta Urban
  • Peats and Peatlands, Physical Properties - Lech Wojciech Szajdak, Jan Szatyłowicz and Raimo Kõlli
  • Ped
  • Pedon
  • Pedotransfer Functions - Yakov Pachepsky and Martinus Th. van Genuchten
  • Penetrability
  • Penetration Resistance
  • Penman Equation
  • Penman-Monteith Equation
  • Perched Groundwater
  • Percolation
  • Permafrost
  • Permanent Charge
  • Permeability
  • Photosynthesis
  • Physical Degradation of Soils, Risks and Threats - Winfried E. H. Blum
  • Physical Dimensions and Units Use in Agriculture - Wojciech Skierucha, Marcin Widomski, Witold Stępniewski and Bogusław Usowicz
  • Physical Phenomena and Properties Important for Storage of Agricultural Products - Marek Molenda and Józef Horabik
  • Physical Processes
  • Physical Properties
  • Physical Properties as Indicators of Food Quality - Martin G. Scanlon
  • Physical Properties of Raw Materials and Agricultural Products - Bohdan Dobrzański, Jr. and Rafał Rybczyński
  • Physical Properties for Soil Classification - Johan Bouma
  • Physical Protection of Organic Carbon in Soil Aggregates - Tiphaine Chevallier
  • Physical Quality, Soil
  • Physical (Mechanical) Weathering of Soil Parent Material - Stefan Skiba
  • Physico-Chemical Methods for Remediation of Contaminated Soils - Toshko Raytchev and Svetla Rousseva
  • Physics of Near Ground Atmosphere - Evgeny V. Shein and Tatiana A. Arkhangelskaya
  • Physics of Plant Nutrition - Evgeny V. Shein
  • Piezometer Head
  • Planck’s Law
  • Plant Bending
  • Plant Biomechanics - Tomasz Rusin and Paweł Kojs
  • Plant Disease Symptoms, Identification from Colored Images - Anyela Valentina Camargo Rodriguez and Jan T. Kim
  • Plant Drought Stress: Detection by Image Analysis - Istvan Farkas
  • Plant Lodging, Effects, and Control - Grażyna Podolska
  • Plant Nutrients
  • Plant Physical Characteristics in Breeding and Varietal Evaluation - Bogusław Szot and Wojciech Rybiński
  • Plant Root Strength and Slope Stability - Sekhar Lukose Kuriakose and L. P. H. van Beek
  • Plant Roots and Soil Structure - A. Pierret and C. J. Moran
  • Plant Temperature - Piotr Baranowski
  • Plant Tropisms, Physics - Fernando Migliaccio, Alessio Fortunati and Paola Tassone
  • Plant Wellness - Istvan Farkas
  • Plant–Soil Interactions, Modeling - Tiina Roose
  • Plastic Limit
  • Plasticity
  • Plasticity Number
  • Plate Sinkage Test
  • Poiseuille’s Law
  • Polish Society of Agrophysics - Bogusław Szot
  • Pore Morphology and Soil Functions - Marcello Pagliai
  • Pore Size Distribution - Miroslav Kutílek
  • Porosimetry - Mieczysław Hajnos
  • Porosity
  • Potential Evapotranspiration
  • Power Spectrum
  • Precision Agriculture: Proximal Soil Sensing - Viacheslav I. Adamchuk and Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel
  • Pre-Compression Stress
  • Pre-Compression Test
  • Preferential Flow
  • Pressure Head
  • Pressure Potential
  • Priming Effects in Relation to Soil Conditions – Mechanisms - Evgenia Blagodatskaya and Yakov Kuzyakov
  • Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Relaxometry in Soil Science - Gabriele E. Schaumann
  • Proximal Soil Sensing
  • Puddling: Effect on Soil Physical Properties and Crops - Gunnar Kirchhof, T. P. Tuong and H. B. So
  • Pugging
  • Q
  • Quality of Agricultural Products in Relation to Physical Conditions - Guillermo P. Moreda and Margarita Ruiz-Altisent
  • R
  • Radiative Properties
  • Rainfall Interception by Cultivated Plants - Józef Kołodziej
  • Rainfall Water Use Efficiency
  • Raw Materials
  • Redox Potential (Eh)
  • Reflectivity
  • Remote Sensing of Soils and Plants Imagery - Ramsis B. Salama
  • Representative Elementary Volume
  • Rheology in Agricultural Products and Foods - Jiří Blahovec
  • Rheology in Soils - Wibke Markgraf
  • Rheopexy
  • Rhizosphere - Jerzy Lipiec and Jan Gliński
  • Rigidity
  • Rill Erosion
  • Root Length Density
  • Root Responses to Soil Physical Limitations - A. Glyn Bengough
  • Root Strength
  • Root System Architecture: Analysis from Root Systems to Individual Roots - Loïc Pagès
  • Root Water Uptake: Toward 3-D Functional Approaches - Mathieu Javaux, Xavier Draye, Claude Doussan, Jan Vanderborght and Harry Vereecken
  • Roughness
  • Runoff
  • S
  • Salinity, Physical Effects on Soils - Lajos Blaskó
  • Scale (Dependency, Invariance)
  • Scaling of Soil Physical Properties - Asim Biswas and Bing Cheng Si
  • Seed
  • Seepage
  • Self Similarity
  • Sensory Evaluation
  • Shear Strength
  • Shear Stress
  • Sheet Erosion
  • Sheet Flow
  • Shrinkage
  • Shrinkage and Swelling Phenomena in Agricultural Products - Bohdan Dobrzański, Jr.
  • Shrinkage and Swelling Phenomena in Soils - Pascal Boivin
  • Slaking
  • Slope Stability
  • Snowmelt Infiltration - Yukiyoshi Iwata
  • Soil Aeration
  • Soil Aggregates
  • Soil Aggregates, Structure, and Stability - Apostolos Papadopoulos
  • Soil Aggregation and Evaporation - Barbara Witkowska-Walczak
  • Soil Biota, Impact on Physical Properties - Pascal Boivin and Roxane Kohler-Milleret
  • Soil Colour Index
  • Soil Compactibility and Compressibility - Stephan Peth
  • Soil Erodibility
  • Soil Erosion Modeling - John N. Quinton
  • Soil Functions - Winfried E. H. Blum
  • Soil Hydraulic Properties Affecting Root Water Uptake - Leilah Krounbi and Naftali Lazarovitch
  • Soil Hydrophobicity and Hydraulic Fluxes - Peter Hartmann
  • Soil Parent Material
  • Soil Penetrability, Effect on Animal Burrowing - Petr Heneberg
  • Soil Penetrometers and Penetrability - Francisco J. Arriaga, Birl Lowery and Randy Raper
  • Soil Phases - Jan Gliński
  • Soil Physical Degradation: Assessment with the Use of Remote Sensing and GIS - Stanisław Białousz
  • Soil Physical Quality - Blair M. McKenzie, Judith M. Tisdall and Wendy H. Vance
  • Soil Pore
  • Soil Separates
  • Soil Structure and Mechanical Strength - Rainer Horn and Heiner Fleige
  • Soil Structure, Intersecting Surface Approach, and its Applications - Victor Yakov Chertkov
  • Soil Structure, Visual Assessment - Lothar Müller
  • Soil Surface Sealing and Crusting - Shmuel Assouline
  • Soil Temperature Effect
  • Soil Texture: Measurement Methods - Andrzej Bieganowski and Magdalena Ryżak
  • Soil Tillage
  • Soil Tilth: What Every Farmer Understands but no Researcher Can Define - Douglas L. Karlen
  • Soil Water Flow - Miroslav Kutílek
  • Soil Water Management - Willibald Loiskand and Gerhard Kammerer
  • Soil Water Potential (Pressure, Head)
  • Soil Welding
  • Soil–Plant–Atmosphere Continuum - Cezary Sławiński and Henryk Sobczuk
  • Soil–Wheel Interactions - Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Soilborne Diseases, Control by Physical Methods - Jaacov Katan and Abraham Gamliel
  • Soils and Plants Aeration
  • Soils and Plants Oxygenation
  • Solar Drying of Biological Materials - Istvan Farkas
  • Solute Transport in Soils - Yves Coquet and Valérie Pot
  • Sorption
  • Sorptivity of Soils - Budiman Minasny and Freeman Cook
  • Space Soil Physics - Robert Heinse
  • Spatial Variability of Properties and Processes
  • Spatial Variability of Soil Physical Properties - Ole Wendroth, Edwin L. Ritchey, Susmitha Nambuthiri, John H. Grove and Robert C. Pearce
  • Specific Surface Area of Soils and Plants - Zofia Sokołowska
  • Stable Isotopes in Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Kurt A. Spokas
  • Stable Isotopes, Their Use in Soil Hydrology - Peggy Macaigne
  • Standardization in Agrophysics - Andrzej Bieganowski and Magdalena Ryżak
  • Steady Flow
  • Sticky
  • Stochastic Model
  • Stokes’ Law
  • Stomatal Conductance, Photosynthesis, and Transpiration, Modeling - Andrée J. Tuzet
  • Stratification of Soil Porosity and Organic Matter - Alan J. Franzluebbers
  • Strength
  • Stress Relaxation
  • Stress–Strain Relations - Stephan Peth and Rainer Horn
  • Stress–Strain Relationships: A Possibility to Quantify Soil Strength Defined as the Precompression Stress - Rainer Horn and Stephan Peth
  • Subdrainage
  • Subirrigation
  • Subsoil
  • Subsoil Compaction - Rainer Horn and Heiner Fleige
  • Subsurface Water
  • Surface and Subsurface Waters - Todd C. Rasmussen
  • Surface Area
  • Surface Charge
  • Surface Properties and Related Phenomena in Soils and Plants - Grzegorz Józefaciuk
  • Surface Roughness, Effect on Water Transfer - Frédéric Darboux
  • Surface Runoff
  • Surface Storage Capacity
  • Surface Tension
  • Surface-Water Excess
  • Suspension
  • Swelling
  • T
  • Temperature Effects in Soil - Graeme D. Buchan
  • Tensile Strength
  • Tensiometry - Krzysztof Lamorski
  • Terrestrial Ecosystem
  • Texture
  • Thermal Capacity
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Thermal Diffusivity
  • Thermal Imaging
  • Thermal Technologies in Food Processing - António A. Vicente and Luís F. Machado
  • Thermosequence
  • Thixotropy
  • Tillage, Impacts on Soil and Environment - Márta Birkás
  • Tillage Erosion - Jianhui Zhang
  • Tillage Pan
  • Tilth
  • Top Soil
  • Toposequence
  • Trace Elements in Crops: Effects of Soil Physical and Chemical Properties - Holger Kirchmann and Jan Eriksson
  • Traffic Farming
  • Trafficability and Workability of Soils - Lothar Müller, Jerzy Lipiec, Ted S. Kornecki and Stephan Gebhardt
  • Transmissivity
  • Transpiration
  • Transpiration Ratio
  • Treated Waste Water
  • Triaxial Compression Test - Marek Molenda
  • Trickle Irrigation
  • Tropical Fruits and Vegetables: Physical Properties - K. P. Baiyeri and F. D. Ugese
  • Tropical Soils, Physical Properties - Charles A. Igwe
  • Tropical Watersheds, Hydrological Processes - Juergen Baumann
  • Tropisms
  • Turbidity - Ewa A. Czyż and Anthony R. Dexter
  • Turf
  • Turgor Pressure
  • Two-Phase Flow
  • U
  • Underground Runoff
  • Unsaturated Zone
  • Unsteady Flow
  • Urban Soils, Functions - Thomas Nehls and Gerd Wessolek
  • Utility Value of Cereals
  • V
  • Vadose Zone
  • Van Der Waals Forces
  • Van Genuchten Equation
  • Vapor Pressure
  • Viscosity
  • Visible and Thermal Images for Fruit Detection - Duke M. Bulanon, Thomas F. Burks and Victor Alchanatis
  • Visual Assessment
  • Vitreosity
  • Void Ratio
  • Volumetric Water Content
  • Vughs
  • W
  • Water Application Efficiency
  • Water Balance in Terrestrial Ecosystems - Joanna Sposób
  • Water Budget in Soil - Alberto Pistocchi
  • Water Diffusion
  • Water Effects on Physical Properties of Raw Materials and Foods - Piotr P. Lewicki
  • Water Erosion: Environmental and Economical Hazard - Jerzy Rejman
  • Water in Forming Agricultural Products - Jiří Blahovec
  • Water Management
  • Water Productivity
  • Water Release Curve
  • Water Reservoirs, Effects on Soil and Groundwater - Waldemar Mioduszewski
  • Water Retention Curve
  • Water Stress
  • Water Table
  • Water Uptake and Transports in Plants Over Long Distances - Marian Kargol
  • Water Use Efficiency in Agriculture: Opportunities for Improvement - Meni Ben-Hur
  • Water-Repellent
  • Waterlogged Soil
  • Watershed
  • Weather, Effects on Plants - Vlasta Štekauerová
  • Wellness
  • Wetlands, Management, Degradation and Restoration - Kathrin Kiehl
  • Wetness
  • Wettability
  • Wetting and Drying, Effect on Soil Physical Properties - Sudhakar M. Rao
  • Wetting Front
  • Wien’s Law
  • Wildfires, Impact on Soil Physical Properties - Henryk Czachor
  • Wilting Point
  • Wind Erosion - Christof Gromke and Katrin Burri
  • Windbreak and Shelterbelt Functions - Andrzej Kędziora
  • Workability
  • X
  • X-ray Method to Evaluate Grain Quality - Alexander M. Demyanchuk, Leonid P. Velikanov, Michael V. Arhipov and Stanisław Grundas