Tropical soils: classification, fertility and management. /
Kalpage, F.S.C.P.
Tropical soils: classification, fertility and management. / F.S.C.P. Kalpage - New York: St. Martins Press, c1974. - 281 p.: ill.; 24cm.
Includes index.
Contents: The Tropical environment -- Factors affecting soil formation -- Processes of soil formation -- Classification of tropical soils -- Profile features and fertility characteristics of the great soil groups -- Physical properties -- Nutrient supply: macro and secondary nutrients -- Nutrient supply: micronutrients -- Soil organic matter and soil organisms -- Soil use in the tropics -- Soil under shifting cultivation -- Soil under intensive upland arable cropping -- Flooded rice soils -- Plantation soils -- Tropical grassland soils -- Fertilizers in tropical soil fertility -- Glossary.
Soils --Tropics.
S599.9.T76 K34
Tropical soils: classification, fertility and management. / F.S.C.P. Kalpage - New York: St. Martins Press, c1974. - 281 p.: ill.; 24cm.
Includes index.
Contents: The Tropical environment -- Factors affecting soil formation -- Processes of soil formation -- Classification of tropical soils -- Profile features and fertility characteristics of the great soil groups -- Physical properties -- Nutrient supply: macro and secondary nutrients -- Nutrient supply: micronutrients -- Soil organic matter and soil organisms -- Soil use in the tropics -- Soil under shifting cultivation -- Soil under intensive upland arable cropping -- Flooded rice soils -- Plantation soils -- Tropical grassland soils -- Fertilizers in tropical soil fertility -- Glossary.
Soils --Tropics.
S599.9.T76 K34