The Soils of Egypt
This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesis, pollution and management. The conservation of Egyptian soils, soils and their connections to human activities, as well as some future soil issues are also highlighted. It is
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Hassan El-Ramady Tarek Alshaal Noura Bakr Tamer Elbana Elsayed Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Belal Editors
The Soils of Egypt
World Soils Book Series Series editor Prof. Alfred E. Hartemink Department of Soil Science, FD Hole Soils Laboratory University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison USA
The World Soils Book Series publishes books containing details on soils of a particular country. They include sections on soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil properties, soil classification, soil fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industry, future soil issues. The books summarize what is known about the soils in a particular country in a concise and highly reader-friendly way. The series contains both single and multi-authored books as well as edited volumes. There is additional scope for regional studies within the series, particularly when covering large land masses (for example, The Soils of Texas, The Soils of California), however, these will be assessed on an individual basis.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8915
Hassan El-Ramady Tarek Alshaal Noura Bakr Tamer Elbana Elsayed Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Belal Editors
The Soils of Egypt
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Editors Hassan El-Ramady Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture Kafrelsheikh University Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt Tarek Alshaal Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture Kafrelsheikh University Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt Noura Bakr Soils and Water Use Department, Biological and Agricultural Division National Research Centre Giza, Egypt
Tamer Elbana Soils and Water Use Department, Biological and Agricultural Division National Research Centre Giza, Egypt Elsayed Mohamed Division of Agriculture Applications and Soil Science National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) Cairo, Egypt Abdel-Aziz Belal Division of Agriculture Applications and Soil Science National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) Cairo, Egypt
ISSN 2211-1255 ISSN 2211-1263 (electronic) World Soils Book Series ISBN 978-3-319-95515-5 ISBN 978-3-319-95516-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95516-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018947479 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the ed