Soil Health and Intensification of Agroecosystems

Informationen zum Autor Mahdi Al-Kaisi is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Agronomy, at Iowa State University. He has over 30 years of research and outreach expertise in the area of soil carbon dynamics and the interaction of climate and agriculture production systems. His research focuses on the effects of crops and tillage systems, crop residue, cover crops, and nitrogen application on soil carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions, and ecosystem services. As a result of his research, he developed many management tools such as soil carbon index for soils in Iowa, erosion and residue calculators. Dr. Al-Kaisi is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, the Soil Science Society of America, and Soil and Water Conservation Society. Birl Lowery is an Emeritus Professor of Soil Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). He held positions ranging from Assistant Professor to Professor from 1980 to 2014 at UW-Madison, and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences from 2010 to 2013. In 1973 he obtained a B.S. degree in Agricultural Education from Alcorn University, an M.A. degree in Agricultural Engineering in 1975 from Mississippi State University, and Ph.D. in Soil Physics in 1980 from Oregon State University. His area of research was applied soil physics, which included research on soil temperature and water regimes, erosion, compaction, contaminant flow in soil, and groundwater quality. He and his students and colleagues published their research findings extensively in a wide range of journals, proceedings, popular press, and book chapters. He has served as Associate Editor for numerous journals over his career.

Product details

• Authors: Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Mahdi M. Al-Kaisi, Birl (EDT)/ Al-kaisi Lowery
• Assisted by: Mahdi M. Al-Kaisi (Editor), Mahdi M. (Iowa State University Al-Kaisi (Editor), Birl Lowery (Editor), Birl (University of Wisconsin-Madison Lowery (Editor), Mahdi M. Al-Kaisi (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.04.2017, delayed
• EAN: 9780128053171
• ISBN: 978-0-12-805317-1
• No. of pages: 418
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Agricultural science, Agronomy & crop production, Soil science, sedimentology, Agronomy and crop production, Soil science and management, Sedimentology and pedology