Advances in Agronomy, Volume 197, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, each written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this new release include Distribution, characteristics and management of Andisols for agricultural production and carbon sequestration, Reducing Emissions from Fertilizers: Opportunities and Challenges, The Unintended Consequences of N: Addressing Pollution from Nitrogenous Fertilizers with Potential Remedies, and Reconciling soil health benefits with carbon sequestration value of organic carbonaceous amendments.
1. Distribution, characteristics and management of Andisols for
agricultural production and carbon sequestration
Tai McClellan Maaz, Felipe Zúñiga, Tetsuhiro Watanabe, Ishwora Dhungana,
Francisco Javier Matus, Franz Zehetner, John Clunes, Susana R. Valle, Dorota
Dec, Kenneth D. Kiehl, Kristy I. Lam, Tanner B. Beckstrom, Han Lyu, Jose J.
Dörner, Dante Pinochet, Dumsane T. Matse, Paramsothy Jeyakumar, Dian Fiantis
2. Reducing Emissions from Fertilizers: Opportunities and Challenges
Tek B. Sapkota, Bijay Singh and Aditi Mukherji
3. The Unintended Consequences of N: Addressing Pollution from Nitrogenous
Fertilizers with Potential Remedies
Anjuman Ara Rajonee, Bhabananda Biswas, Md Nuruzzaman, and Ravi Naidu
4. Reconciling soil health benefits with carbon sequestration value of
organic carbonaceous amendments
Nanthi Bolan, Noel Ndlovu, Shailja Sharma, Charles Spillane, Shiv Bolan,
Santanu Mukherjee, Jaishankar Nagarajan, Manish Kumar, Juhi
Gupta,Cherukumalli Srinivasa Rao, Sandeep Sihag, Sreeni Chadalavada, Kadambot
H.M. Siddique
DONALD L. SPARKS is the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Francis Alison Professor at the University of Delaware. He is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of kinetics of biogeochemical processes and surface chemistry of natural materials. His research has focused on fate and transport of trace metals in soil and water, soil remediation, water quality, and carbon sequestration in soils. Dr. Sparks is the author of two previous editions of Environmental Soil Chemistry and more than 350 refereed papers and book chapters. He is fellow of five scientific societies, and he has been the recipient of major awards and lectureships including the Geochemistry Medal from the American Chemical Society, the Liebig Medal from the International Union of Soil Sciences, the Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal from the European Geosciences Union. Dr. Sparks served as president of the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, has served on advisory committees for several national laboratories and national and international centers and institutes, and served as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Soil Sciences and other NAS Committees.
