Saline and Alkaline Soils in Latin America

Natural Resources, Management and Productive Alternatives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of saline and alkaline soils in Latin America, known for having one of the most extensive surface of salt-affected soils in the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-27
Mått155 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt893 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor463
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030525910

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Chapter 1. Overview of salt and alkali-affected areas in Latin America. A physical and social perspective.- Chapter 2. Salt affected environments and soil and crop management in different agro/ecosystems.- Chapter 3. Genesis and properties of salt affected soils in the Flooding Pampa.- Chapter 4. Dryland salting in the Chaco forest.- Chapter 5. Salt-affected soils of Pantanal wetland: characterization, genesis and mineralogy.- Chapter 6. Problems of salinity and sodicity related to irrigation and drainage in Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and Dominican Republic.- Chapter 7. Sea water intrusion and its effects of groundwater in Cuba.- Chapter 8. Soil salinization at the northern coast of Peru: A study case in San Pedro de Lloc.- Chapter 9. Characteristics and management of halo-hydro-morphic soils in North Santa Fe province, Argentina.- Chapter 10. Soil-water-plant management in Brazilian areas affected by salts.- Chapter 11. Conceptual basis and guidelines for the ameliorative use of gypsumin salt affected soils.- Chapter 12. Management of cattle grazing in humid marshlands.- Chapter 13. Management technologies and reclamation of salt affected and flooded soils in the Pampas.- Chapter 14. Effects of supplementary irrigation on soils and crops in humid and subhumid areas in the Pampas region.- Chapter 15. Strategies for the use of saline water in Northern Brazil.- Chapter 16. Salinity influences arsenic resistance in the northern Chile.- Chapter 17. Effects of salinity on vineyards in North Mendoza province.- Chapter 18. Plant resources from saline soils and their contribution to ecological sustainability.- Chapter 19. Salt and alkali tolerance mechanisms in the major crops and forage plants cultivated in Argentina.- Chapter 20. The search of native forage resources from saline soils.- Chapter 21. Phytoremediation and revegetation of saline sodic soils in Brazil.- Chapter 22. Native plants in the productive restoration and reclamation of saline environments in arid zonesof Argentina.- Chapter 23. Brazilian halophites and the biosaline agriculture.- Chapter 24. Genetic improvements of forages for salt tolerance.- Chapter 25. Lotus spp: Biotechnological strategies to improve the bioeconomy of agricultural marginal environments in the Flooding Pampa.