Soil quality is the capacity of a specific kind of soil to function within natural or managed ecosystem boundaries to: ? sustain plant and animal productivity ? maintain or enhance water and air quality ? support human health and habitation Soil function describes what the soil does. Soil functions are: (1) sustaining biological activity, diversity, and productivity; (2) regulating and partitioning water and solute flow; (3) filtering and buffering, degrading, immobilizing, and detoxifying organic and inorganic materials, including industrial and municipal by-products and atmospheric deposition; (4) storing and cycling nutrients and other elements within the earth
Autorius: | U. S. Department of Agriculture |
Leidėjas: | Lulu.com |
Išleidimo metai: | 2019 |
Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 48 |
ISBN-10: | 0359573436 |
ISBN-13: | 9780359573431 |
Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
Kalba: | Anglų |
Žanras: | Encyclopaedias & reference works |
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