Agricultural soil science : sustainable management of agricultural soils /

Soils are a vital resource in agricultural production. This book aims to provide an overview of several topics concerning agricultural soil management. Without claiming to be exhaustive, it nevertheless provides a useful basis for understanding how agricultural soils function, and how to manage thes...

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Other Authors:	Coquet, Yves (Editor), Michelin, Joel (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE, Ltd. ; Wiley, 2025.
Series:	Sciences. Agronomy and food science. Agronomy
Subjects:	Agronomy. Soil management. Sustainable agriculture.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction xiii Yves COQUET and Jo͡l MICHELIN
Chapter 1 Tillage and Structure of Agricultural Soils 1 Yves COQUET and Lionel ALLETTO
1.1 What is tillage? Why should soils be tilled?
1.2 Soil structure
1.2.1 Porosity and bulk density
1.2.2 Soil structuring mechanisms
1.2.3 A method for characterizing the structure of cultivated soils: the Profil cultural
1.3 Consequences of the different methods for tilling soil
1.3.1 Systems that include tillage (conventional agriculture)
1.3.2 No-till systems (conservation agriculture)
1.4 Conclusion
1.5 References
Chapter 2 The Biodiversity of Agricultural Soils 25 Laure Vieubľ GONOD, Sophie JOIMEL and Audrey NIBOYET
2.1 Soil organisms
2.2 Biodiversity of agricultural soils compared with other land uses
2.3 Effects of agricultural practices on soil biodiversity
2.3.1 Effects of mineral fertilizers
2.3.2 Effects of the addition of exogenous organic matter
2.3.3 Effects of pesticides
2.3.4 Effects of tillage
2.3.5 Effects of crop diversification
2.4 Comparison of cropping systems
2.4.1 Organic farming versus conventional agriculture
2.4.2 Conservation agriculture versus conventional agriculture
2.4.3 Organic farming versus conservation agriculture
2.5 Soil biodiversity management - keys for promoting action
2.5.1 Bioindicators
2.5.2 Link between biodiversity and soil functioning
2.5.3 Ecological engineering
2.6 Conclusion
2.7 References
Chapter 3 Spatial Variability and Mapping of Agricultural Soils 63 Jean-Marc GILLIOT
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Background: the origins of soil mapping in France
3.3 The digital age, from paper maps to spatialized databases: the available information for soil mapping
3.3.1 Augerholes, pits and soil analyses
3.3.2 The accessible French databases
3.3.3 The available international databases
3.3.4 Auxiliary cartographic data
3.4 Some of the general concepts and methods of soil mapping
3.4.1 The concepts of scale, resolution and sampling
3.4.2 Notions of regionalized variable and support: spatial organization of soil information
3.4.3 Changes to soil information support formats
3.4.4 Pedotransfer functions
3.5 Examples of uses of soil maps
3.5.1 Precision agriculture using drones
3.5.2 Modeling of ammonia emissions arising from agricultural fertilization
3.6 References
Chapter 4 Runoff and Soil Erosion 91 Philippe MARTIN
4.1 Preliminary considerations
4.1.1 Forms of erosion
4.1.2 Connections with human activity
4.1.3 Regulations put in place
4.2 The essential processes at work on agricultural land
4.2.1 Runoff
4.2.2 Sediment loads
4.3 Impact of agricultural activities on processes
4.3.1 Effects of cropping systems
4.3.2 Past and current long-term dynamics
4.4 Toward integrated watershed management
4.4.1 Limiting concentration levels flowing toward the talwegs
4.4.2 Sustainable protection of the talwegs
4.4.3 Reducing vulnerability in downstream agricultural territories
4.4.4 Population protection measures
4.5 The art of avoiding recipes
4.6 References
Chapter 5 Soils and Agricultural Land Property: Legal Aspects of Sectoral and Functional Protection 109 Louis DE REDON
5.1 Soil, a physical environment like no other?
5.2 Soils are covered by the law as a biological environment
5.2.1 The legal foundations of soil protections
5.2.2 The legal protection of soils
5.3 Soils are covered by the law as a property right
5.3.1 The legal foundations of agricultural land ownership
5.3.2 The legal protection of agricultural land
5.4 Toward a global protection of physical environments?
Chapter 6 Methods for Estimating the Agronomic Value of Soils 131 Jo͡l MICHELIN
6.1 Why evaluate the agronomic value or the cultural suitability of soils?
6.2 Soil functions for agricultural production
6.2.1 The soil provides physical support for the plants
6.2.2 Soil, a reservoir for air and water
6.2.3 The soil: a source of nutrients
6.3 Intrinsic properties and characteristics of soils
6.3.1 Characteristics that are relatively easy to obtain
6.3.2 The water reserve of the soil
6.3.3 Natural soil drainage
6.3.4 Aeration of the soil
6.3.5 Stock and availability of nutrients
6.3.6 Workability of the soil
6.3.7 Soil tillage
6.4 Extrinsic factors
6.4.1 Physical environment factors
6.4.2 Technical and socioeconomic factors
6.5 Evaluation of agricultural values
6.5.1 Different levels of approach
6.5.2 Principles of evaluation and classification
6.6 Examples of observation and classification methods
6.6.1 Approach using field pedological surveys
6.6.2 Approach using soil maps and databases
6.7 Conclusion
6.8 References
Chapter 7 The Concept of Ecosystem Services and Its Application to Soil: Between Promises and Reality 161 David MONTAGNE, Ottone SCAMMACCA,Christian WALTER and Isabelle COUSIN
7.1 Introduction
7.2 A short history of Ecosystem Services: from inception to the international institutionalization of this concept
7.2.1 An emerging concept
7.2.2 Development and spread of the concept
7.2.3 Institutionalization and market entry
7.2.4 What is the future of Ecosystem Services?
7.3 Definition and conceptualization of Ecosystem Services
7.3.1 Ecosystem Services: a product derived from ecological systems or a co-product of ecological and socioeconomic systems
7.3.2 Conceptualization using a cascade model
7.3.3 Supply, flow and demand
7.4 Classification of Ecosystem Services
7.4.1 Classification from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
7.4.2 The CICES classification
7.5 The biophysical quantification of Ecosystem Services
7.5.1 What is to be quantified?
7.5.2 How to quantify services?
7.6 Mapping Ecosystem Services
7.6.1 What is to be mapped?
7.6.2 How to map?
7.7 Applying the concept of Ecosystem Services to the soil component of ecosystems
7.7.1 Soils have largely been forgotten about in ecosystems approaches
7.7.2 New conceptual frameworks to reposition soils within the cascade model
7.7.3 What definitions can be used for Ecosystem Services related to or obtained from soils?
7.7.4 Assessing and mapping soil-related Ecosystem Services: where are we at present?
7.8 Conclusion
7.9 Acknowledgments
7.10 References
Chapter 8 Mediterranean Agricultural Soils 211 Emmanuelle VAUDOUR
8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 Physical and human frameworks and the pedogenesis process in Mediterranean regions
8.1.2 Zonality of Mediterranean soils
8.2 Fersiallitic red soils
8.2.1 Definition and formation processes
8.2.2 Geographic distribution and notable sequences
8.2.3 Agronomic potential
8.3 Vertisols
8.3.1 Definition and formation processes
8.3.2 Agronomic potential
8.4 Soils with limestone accumulations or Calcarisols
8.4.1 Definition and formation processes
8.4.2 Geographic distribution and notable sequences
8.4.3 Agronomic potential
8.5 Salisols and Sodisols
8.5.1 Definition and formation processes
8.5.2 Geographic distribution and notable sequences
8.5.3 Agronomic potential
8.6 Conclusion
8.7 References
Chapter 9 Tropical Soils and Sustainable Management 249 Čcile QUANTIN and Thierry BECQUER
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Tropical pedogenesis: dominated by geochemical weathering
9.3 Typical profile and differentiation of horizons and pedological units
9.4 Principal characteristics, diversity of tropical soils
9.5 Properties and agronomic consequences
9.5.1 Mineralogical characteristics and exchange properties
9.5.2 Advanced weathering: nutrition deficiencies and aluminum toxicity
9.5.3 Abundance of Fe and Al oxides: implications for the availability of phosphorus
9.6 The sustainable management of soils with high geochemical weathering: the role of organic matter in Ferralsols
9.6.1 Organic matter and exchange properties
9.6.2 Organic matter and nutrient cycling
9.6.3 Organic matter and acidification/alkalinization of soils
9.6.4 Organic material and phosphorus availability
9.7 Conclusion
9.8 References
Chapter 10 Urban Agricultural Soil 273 Sophie JOIMEL, Tania DE ALMEIDA and Baptiste GRARD
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Redeploying urban agriculture
10.3 Urban soils: the basis of urban agriculture
10.3.1 The large diversity in urban soils
10.3.2 Var.
ied physicochemical properties
10.3.3 Interesting biological properties
10.4 Managing ecosystem services provided by urban soils
10.4.1 Ecosystem services - a definition
10.4.2 Soils that serve many purposes
10.5 Toward decision-making tools
10.6 Conclusion
10.7 References
List of Authors
Index.