TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hartemink,Alfred E.
ED  - C.A.B. International,
TI  - Soil fertility decline in the tropics: with case studies on plantations 
AV  - S633.5.T76 H37 2003eb
U1  - 631.4/22/0913 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
PB  - CABI
KW  - Soil fertility
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Soil degradation
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Field Crops, (New March 2000)
KW  - Plant Cropping Systems
KW  - Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy
KW  - Soil Surveys and Land Evaluation
KW  - Soil Fertility
KW  - Silviculture and Forest Management
KW  - Land Resources
KW  - Pollution and Degradation
KW  - Demography
KW  - Saccharum
KW  - cabt
KW  - Saccharum officinarum
KW  - Cropping systems
KW  - Forest plantations
KW  - Land management
KW  - Land use
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Population growth
KW  - Soil resources
KW  - Soil test values
KW  - Spatial variation
KW  - Sugarcane
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Temporal variation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction -- Human Population and Soil Degradation -- Plantation Agriculture -- Soil Fertility Decline : Theoretical Considerations -- Annual Crops -- Perennial Crop Plantations -- Forest Plantations -- Sugarcane Plantations -- Case 1 : Sugarcane Plantation, Papua New Guinea -- Case 2 : Sisal Plantations, Tanzania -- Synthesis -- Summary and Conclusions; Access limited to subscribing institution; Also available in print format
N2  - This book, containing 12 chapters including an introduction which focuses on soil fertility under different land use systems in the tropics. Chapter 2 contains a global literature review on human population growth, soil resources of the tropics, tropical land use and management, soil degradation and sustainable land management. Chapter 3 reviews historical and productivity aspects of agricultural plantations in the tropics. Chapter 4 covers theoretical considerations of soil fertility decline and includes sections on data requirements, spatial and temporal variation, soil tests and interpretation of soil fertility decline studies. Chapter 5 focuses on soil fertility decline of annual cropping systems and brings together a wide range of data and studies. Soil changes under plantation crops are critically examined in Chapters 6 to 10 using published literature on perennial crops, sugarcane plantations and forest plantations. Two detailed case studies are included, based on research conducted at plantations in Tanzania and Papua New Guinea. Chapter 11 synthesizes data from the literature and the case studies. Finally, a summary of the soil changes followed by some of the implications for plantation cropping and a set of conclusions is given in Chapter 12
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9780851996707.0000
ER  -