Application of Soil Physics in Environmental Analyses: Measuring, Modelling and Data Integration

✍ Scribed by Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, Marcos Bacis Ceddia, Marta Vasconcelos Ottoni, Guilheme Kangussu Donnagema (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 508
• Series: Progress in Soil Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The importance to preserve soil and water have is increasingly recognized. Agricultural practices and ecological trends both affect and are affected by soil physical properties. The more frequency of natural disasters, as landslides and thunderstorms addresses the importance to integrate soil characteristics in predictive models. Soil physics research has grown considerably specially in the use of innovative sensors, soil databases, and modeling techniques have been introduced into soil water relationship and environmental monitoring. Those advances are thoroughly dispersed in articles and conference proceedings In this volume, the authors will bring together the effectiveness of many new field and lab sensors and examine the current state-of-the-art in modeling and data analysis. It also includes innovative approaches and case studies in tropical soils. Future directions in soil physics research are given by key researchers in this discipline.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Knowledge Chains, Linking Cutting-Edge Research on Flow Phenomena in Soils with Tacit Knowledge from Field Research....Pages 3-21
Hydropedology: Linking Dynamic Soil Properties with Soil Survey Data....Pages 23-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
State-Space Analysis in Soil Physics....Pages 53-74
Spatial Relationships Between Soil Water Content and Hydraulic Conductivity in a Highly Structured Clay Soils....Pages 75-90
State-Space Approach to Understand Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Relationships....Pages 91-129
Pedotransfer Functions for Brazilian Soils....Pages 131-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
An Algorithm for Mapping the Spatial Variability of Soil Physical Quality....Pages 165-190
A Preliminary Proposal for the Structural Classification of Soil Pore Space....Pages 191-199
Indicators of Soil Physical Quality: From Simplicity to Complexity....Pages 201-221
Monitoring Soil Water in Irrigated Soils of the Brazilian Semi-arid Region: An Opportunity to Improve Water Use....Pages 223-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Sensor Network Data Assimilation in Soil Water Flow Modeling....Pages 239-260
New Perspectives for the Application of High-Resolution Benchtop X-Ray MicroCT for Quantifying Void, Solid and Liquid Phases in Soils....Pages 261-281
Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity in the Central Amazon: Field Evaluations....Pages 283-305
Soil Moisture and Soil Water Storage Using Hydrological Modeling and Remote Sensing....Pages 307-345
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
The Use of Numerical Flow and Transport Models in Environmental Analyses....Pages 349-376
The Use of Multicomponent Solute Transport Models in Environmental Analyses....Pages 377-402
Hydraulic Properties and Non-equilibrium Water Flow in Soils....Pages 403-434
Water Availability to Plants....Pages 435-452
Experiences and Challenges in Developing European Soil Hydrological Databases....Pages 453-465
A Hydrophysical Database to Develop Pedotransfer Functions for Brazilian Soils: Challenges and Perspectives....Pages 467-494
Back Matter....Pages 495-499

✦ Subjects

Agriculture; Geophysics/Geodesy; Soil Science & Conservation; Environmental Science and Engineering