Ecosystem Services and Tropical Soils of India
This book highlights ecosystem services of Indian tropical soils driven by soil properties. Soils are complex and important biomaterials and have an outstanding role in providing ecosystem services to mankind. The tropical soils have been traditionally an
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Ecosystem Services and Tropical Soils of India
Ecosystem Services and Tropical Soils of India
D. K. Pal
Ecosystem Services and Tropical Soils of India
D. K. Pal Division of Soil Resource Studies ICAR-NBSS&LUP Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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I dedicate this book to my parents and parents-in-law
Preface
Tropical soils have been traditionally considered as either agriculturally poor or virtually useless by many. To remove these misgivings, Indian soil scientists developed the state-of-the-art information in the last decade on tropical soils of India wherein they have presented scientific facts that would render soil as one of the important determinants of India’s economic status. Tropical soils are the most complex and important biomaterials but have an outstanding role in providing ecosystem services to mankind. Despite concerted efforts, this has not received adequate recognition. It is, hence, necessary to highlight the significance of soil and its effect on the global environment in an appropriate manner by including soil in the framework of ecosystem services and scientific policyand decision-making. This is the only way that soil science can be appreciated as a ‘progressive and innovative field of science’. Continuous research attempt in this direction is the need of the hour because earlier attempts to evaluate the ecosystem services did not give adequate attention to soil component and, when given, it is poorly defined. In studies made so far to link soil properties to ecosystem services, soil scien
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