Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Chemical Grouting and Soil Stabilization deals with soil stabilization, a method of improving soil properties by blending and mixing other materials. Soil stabilization a general term for any physical, chemical, biological, or combined method of changing a natural soil to meet an engineering purpose. There are many techniques for soil stabilization, including compaction, dewatering and by adding material to the soil. The text Soil Stabilization: Principles and Practice focuses on the techniques of stabilizing soils. The objective of first chapter is to review the role of mycorrhizas and mycorrhizal networks in the stability of forest ecosystems and forest soils as climate changes. The stabilization of organic matter by biochar application in compost-amended soils with contrasting pH values and textures has been focused in second chapter. The objectives of third chapter are to investigate the influences of long-term grazing exclusion (GE) on soil organic matter (SOM) composition in semiarid grassland soils, and explore changes in SOM stability with long-term GE. The aim of fourth chapter is to evaluate the dynamics of water and nutrient adsorption by expanded shale (EXSH). Behavior of clayey soil stabilized with rice husk ash and lime has been discussed in fifth chapter. Physiological and biochemical mechanisms of plant adaptation to low-fertility acid soils of the tropics have been presented in sixth chapter. Seventh chapter describes the effect on the soil after the spreading of olive-pruning debris together with the residues of the olive-fruit cleaning in two predominant soils in Andalusian olive orchards. The purpose of eighth chapter is to evaluate carbon sequestration and to present potential bioenergy crops for carbon sequestration in Poland. Ninth chapter focuses on soil-landscape modelling and spatial prediction of soil attributes. Tenth chapter classifies the highly weathered soils in Malaysia and discusses the management of the soils for sustainable production of oil palm, rubber and cocoa. Poultry litter fertilization impacts on soil, plant, and water characteristics in loblolly pine plantations and silvopastures in the mid-South USA have been investigated in last chapter.
