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.

Table of Contents

• 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