Research and Markets: Hydropedology. Synergistic Integration of Soil Science and Hydrology

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/cjwjwq/hydropedology) has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology's new report "Hydropedology. Synergistic Integration of Soil Science and Hydrology" to their offering.

“Hydropedology. Synergistic Integration of Soil Science and Hydrology”

Hydropedology is a microcosm for what is happening in Soil Science. Once a staid discipline found in schools of agriculture devoted to increasing crop yield, soil science is transforming itself into an interdisciplinary mulch with great significance not only for food production but also climate change, ecology, preservation of natural resources, forestry, and carbon sequestration. Hydropedology brings together pedology (soil characteristics) with hydrology (movement of water) to understand and achieve the goals now associated with modern soil science.

Key Features

- The first book of its kind in the market

- Highly interdisciplinary, involving new thinking and synergistic approaches

- Stimulating case studies demonstrate the need for hydropedology in various practical applications

- Future directions and new approaches are present to advance this emerging interdisciplinary science

Topics Covered

Part I Fundamentals:

1 Bridging Pedologic and Hydrologic Processes across Space and Time: Hydropedology and Its Significance

2 Understanding Soil Architecture across Spatial Scales

3 Quantifying Processes Governing Soil-Mantled Hillslope Evolution

4 Modeling and Mapping Soil Spatial and Temporal Variability

5 Scale Issues in Hydropedology

6 Preferential Flow in a Pedological Perspective

7 Hydromorphic Features: Soil Morphology as a Signature of Soil Hydrology

8 Understanding and Predicting Complex Soil and Hydrologic Systems

Part II Applications and Case Studies:

9 Hydropedology as a Powerful Tool for Environmental Policy and Regulations: Towards Sustainable Land Use Management and Planning

10 Hydropedology in Caliche Soils Weathered from Glen Rose Limestone of Lower Cretaceous Age in Texas

11 Hydropedology in Seasonally Dry Landscapes - The Palouse Region of The Pacific Northwest USA

12 Hydropedology of the North American Coastal Temperate Rainforest

13 Hydropedology, Geomorphology and Groundwater Processes in Land Degradation Case Studies in South West Victoria, Australia

14 Hydropedological Toposequence Models to Support Land Use Planning and Mineral Exploration

15 Rainfall Erosion and Hydropedology

16 Preferential Flow Dynamics and Plant Rooting Systems

17 Soil Moisture Spatial-Temporal Patterns and Their Controls In Two Contrasting Landscapes

18 Subaqueous soil Part III Moving Forward and Outlooks: 19 Digital Soil Mapping: Interactions with and Applications for Hydropedology

20 Integrated Hydropedologic Investigations at the Intermediate Scale in a Forested Catchment Using Geophysical Tools

21 Hydrological Classifications of Soils and Their Use in Hydrological Modeling

22 Hydrologic Information in Pedologic Models

23 Soil Information in Hydrologic Models: Hard Data, Soft Data, and the Dialog Between 24 Experimentalists and Modelers

24 Subsurface Flow Networks at the Hillslope Scale: Detection and Modeling

25 Coupling Ecohydrology and Hydropedology at Different Spatio-Temporal Scales in Water-Limited Ecosystems

26 Coupling Biogeochemistry and Hydropedology

27 Free Energy Dynamics of The Critical Zone and Its Relevance to Hydropedology

28 Summary and Outlook for Hydropedology

Authors

Lin, Henry.

Ph.D. in Soil Science

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Source: Elsevier Science and Technology