£64.99
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This book presents decades of global research on how sustainable soil development can enhance carbon storage—a key to climate mitigation, food security, and biodiversity. It highlights the vital importance of plant species selection and the risks of invasive species.
This book presents research conducted from the late 1990s to the 2020s across ecosystems in Brazil, the Congo Basin, Europe, and beyond. Its objective is to enhance human well-being and environmental health by promoting sustainable soil management that supports carbon storage, a key component of climate change mitigation, food security, land restoration, and biodiversity conservation.
Findings show that afforestation, grasslands, and planted fallows enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, as observed in 17-year-old pastures in the Amazon and mixed forest stands in the Congo. However, this carbon becomes increasingly labile over time, limiting long-term gains. Local environmental conditions strongly influence storage effectiveness. Most results align with the Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030).
The research also highlights the importance of species selection: legumes improve nitrogen-poor soils, while species such as Calliandra perform worse than Chromolaena in acidic soils. Some species, such as the invasive Acacia mangium, increase nutriment stocks but threaten biodiversity, underscoring the need for rigorous ecological risk assessment.
Uncontrolled deforestation and poor management of invasive species continue to endanger soil and ecosystem health. Scientists must play a leading role in developing inclusive, science-based strategies for biodiversity and climate action that integrate traditional knowledge, gender equity, and local community participation.
Man-made climate change poses a new crisis: how do we feed 10 billion people in a climate hostile to food security? This book explores the threat to our “daily bread” and argues that we are not without hope, offering solutions that can lead to a better future for humankind.
Wine: our oldest medicine. Uncover its 9,500-year history, from its true origins in China to how it can reduce death rates by 50% and dementia by 80%. This groundbreaking book rewrites everything you thought you knew about the health benefits of wine.
This light-hearted, informative narrative discusses US agriculture from a historical, social, and financial perspective. Written in a satirical voice, the author uses storytelling to share his experiences in food and farming through fast-moving, easy-to-read prose.
This book explains how plants perceive their environment, communicate, and modify their behavior. It explores intriguing aspects of plant memory and intelligence, from their perception of sound and touch to communication with other plants, animals, and microorganisms.
This book introduces the biology and history of cocoa. It describes how cocoa can be grown in an environmentally sound way to increase production on existing farms, reduce incursion into forests, restore biodiversity, and improve the livelihoods of millions of farming families.
Explore the legendary fossil beds of Samos, where ancient myths explained the bones of giant mammals. This book uncovers the island’s paleontological history, compares the anatomy of the giraffe, okapi, and extinct Samotherium, and maps the geology of these famed bone quarries.
This book guides readers from basic knowledge to advanced specifics on Plant Stress Physiology due to Climate Change. Covering the newest findings on drought and heat stress, it challenges accepted viewpoints and helps address questions fundamental to plant life itself.
Discover the honey bee’s adaptation to environments worldwide. This book explains how the bee colony functions as an integral biological unit to survive long winters and uses specific acoustic and electrical signals for spatial orientation and communication.
This book presents a wine tasting method based on neurobiology, gastronomy, and the science of how the human brain processes pleasure. While written for the beginner, this unique approach offers valuable insights that wine professionals can also benefit from.
Animal space use is complex. Memory and multi-scaled space use present deep challenges for biophysical modelling. This book confronts these issues, presenting novel models, a critical evaluation of existing concepts, and theoretical proposals to resolve present challenges.
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