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Soil Guide: A Handbook for Understanding and Managing Agricultural Soils

Geoff Cowles

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Acknowledgments

1. About Soilguide

1.1  Introduction

1.2  Site assessment: Soil ready reckoner

2.  Soils of south-western Australia

2.1  Soil groups of south-Western Australia

2.2  Soils and landscapes of south-Western Australia

2.3  Distinctive morphological features and their agricultural significance

3.  Physical factors affecting water infiltration and redistribution

3.1 Water repellence

3.2 Soil structure decline

3.3 Soil water

3.4 Waterlogging

4.  Physical restrictions to root growth

4.1 Hard layers in soils

4.2 Subsurface compaction

5  Chemical factors affecting plant growth

5.1 Soil acidity

5.2 Soil alkalinity and soil sodicity

5.3 Soil salinity

6.  Plant nutrition

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Nitrogen

6.3 Phosphorus

6.4 Potassium

6.5 Sulphur

6.6 Copper

6.7 Zinc

6.8 Molybdenum

6.9 Manganese

6.10 Boron

6.11 Other nutrients

7.  Sustainable soil management

7.1 Wind erosion     

7.2 Runoff and Water erosion 

7.3 Soil factors influencing eutrophication   

7.4 Herbicides: Movement, persistence and activity in soils

8.  Crops: soil and climatic requirements

8.1 Wheat   

8.2 Barley 

8.3 Oats     

8.4 Narrow-leafed lupins 

8.5 Field peas   

8.6 Canola         

8.7 Faba beans 

8.8 Chickpeas     

8.9 Grape vines   

8.10 Blue gums   

9.  Pastures: soil and climatic requirements

9.1  Annual pasture legumes

9.2 Herbaceous perennial legumes

9.3 Perennial grasses

9.4 Pasture shrubs

10. Understanding and interpreting soil chemical and physical data

References (Listed under section headings)

Index

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