Advances in Agronomy, Volume 198, 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.
Assessing Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Lands Using
the RothC Model: A Multi-Country Evaluation of the FAO-GSP Approach in Congo,
Chile, Mexico, and the United States of America
Carlos E. Arroyo-Cruz, Viviana Marcela Varón-Ramírez, Alma Vazquez-Lule,
Blanca Prado, María de los Ángeles Sepúlveda-Parada, Erick Zagal ,Andrea
Mora, Juan A. Barrera, Carolin Córdova, Lydie Stella Koutika, Luis Morales,
Efraín Duarte, Luciano Elias Di Paolo, Guillermo Preralta, Sabine Grunwald,
and Mario Guevara
Designing low-emission rice systems: Literature review to quantify
repeatability of mitigation impact by different interventions
Ando M. Radanielson, Thuong Vo, Amelia Henry ,Van Scheper-Luu, Mary Ann
Burac, Olivyn Angeles, Tao Li, Bjorn Ole Sander, Bas Bouman, Reiner Wassmann
Field-scale nitrogen loss from agricultural land to water: Pathways, drivers,
and management implications
Bradley C. Kennedy and Gurpal S. Toor
Organic amendments and biostimulants for resilient soils: unlocking the
multifunctional potential of deep application
Dewen Qiao and Abdul Mounem Mouazen
Visible Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy Integral for Soil
Information and Research in the Digital Age
Mervin St. Luce, Anshu Beri, Noura Ziadi, Asim Biswas, and Andrew Hector
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.
