Soil quality research is the study of the characteristics, composition, and health of a soil sample and how these factors impact the soil's ability to perform it's intended function. Lesson 1 provides ...

WHEN one who has been for many years both a teacher and an investigator commits to paper the facts and ideas which have formed the substance of his later courses of instruction, we expect a very ...

Marriage of the mineral world and the organic world: Introduction: How soil forms from rocks and weather -- Plant roots and their bacterial partners -- Plant roots and their fungal partners -- Where ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

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IT is pleasant to see that Sir Daniel Hall's book on the soil has now reached a third edition. It will have a permanent place in British agricultural literature as the first book on the subject in the ...