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Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services
A comprehensive resource on cover crops and their role in soil ecosystems
Cover crops are a reemerging strategy to improve and maintain the services that soils provide. They can have an enormous affect on agricultural outcomes, preventing soil erosion, restoring vital soil nutrients, sequestering C from the atmosphere, and more. The successful management and use of cover crops is therefore critical to ensure soil ecosystem services are maintained or improved not only to meet our demands for food, fuel, fiber, and feed but also to reduce pollution and improve the soil.
Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services provides a heavily researched and highly readable introduction to cover crops and their role in soil ecosystems. It ranges from a detailed discussion of cover crop biomass production to a thorough treatment of soil ecosystems and their vulnerabilities. The result is an essential guide to a critical area of agricultural science.
Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services readers will also find:
* Detailed treatment of cover crop biomass production, soil erosion, greenhouse gas fluxes, nitrate leaching, soil C sequestration, and more
* Discussion of emerging issues, including extreme weather events and the economics of cover crop farming
* Wide-ranging summaries of interdisciplinary soil and cover crop research
Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services is a useful reference for students and researchers at all levels of study relating to cover crop agriculture.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Overview of Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services
Chapter 2. Cover Crop Biomass Production
Chapter 3. Soil Environment
Chapter 4. Water Erosion
Chapter 5. Wind Erosion
Chapter 6. Nutrient Losses: Algal Bloom and Anoxia
Chapter 7. Soil Gas Emissions
Chapter 8. Carbon Sequestration
Chapter 9. Soil Water
Chapter 10. Weed Management
Chapter 11. Nutrient Management
Chapter 12. Crop Yields
Chapter 13. Grazing and Harvesting
Chapter 14. Economics
Chapter 15. Adaptation to Climatic Fluctuations
Chapter 16. Opportunities, Challenges, and Future of Cover Crops
About the author
Humberto Blanco is Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Summary
Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services
A comprehensive resource on cover crops and their role in soil ecosystems
Cover crops are a reemerging strategy to improve and maintain the services that soils provide. They can have an enormous affect on agricultural outcomes, preventing soil erosion, restoring vital soil nutrients, sequestering C from the atmosphere, and more. The successful management and use of cover crops is therefore critical to ensure soil ecosystem services are maintained or improved not only to meet our demands for food, fuel, fiber, and feed but also to reduce pollution and improve the soil.
Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services provides a heavily researched and highly readable introduction to cover crops and their role in soil ecosystems. It ranges from a detailed discussion of cover crop biomass production to a thorough treatment of soil ecosystems and their vulnerabilities. The result is an essential guide to a critical area of agricultural science.
Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services readers will also find:
* Detailed treatment of cover crop biomass production, soil erosion, greenhouse gas fluxes, nitrate leaching, soil C sequestration, and more
* Discussion of emerging issues, including extreme weather events and the economics of cover crop farming
* Wide-ranging summaries of interdisciplinary soil and cover crop research
Cover Crops and Soil Ecosystem Services is a useful reference for students and researchers at all levels of study relating to cover crop agriculture.
