Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes: Sustainable Use of Soil Ecosystem Services and Management focuses on the patterns and processes of mountainous soils, including threats due to the fragile nature of mountain ecosystems, and the conservation and management of soil ecosystem services and restoration processes. The book covers a balanced approach to land and resource management, ensuring that environmentally and socio-culturally sound interventions are developed and applied in the complex geophysical, ecological, and social landscapes of the world's mountain systems. The book provides holistic understanding of mountain soils to help environmental and soil scientists gain insight and develop new problem-solving approaches.
With obvious up- and downstream linkages (e.g., a large proportion of urban canters globally depend on water that originates in the mountains) as well as globalization (e.g., continental-scale impacts of air pollution and climate change on glaciers), the long-range success of conservation measures in mountain regions requires that the following discrete but interconnected interventions be pursued concurrently: (1) the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services, (2) empowerment of mountain communities (including family farming), and (3) elaboration of more thoughtful, context-specific policy environments for sustainable mountain development.
1. Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. v 5. Copyright Page - p. iv 6. List of Contributors - p. xiii 7. About the editors - p. xvii 8. Foreword - p. xix 9. Preface - p. xxi 10. Chapter 1 Mountain soils and climate change: importance, threats and mitigation measures - p. 3 11. Chapter 2 Threats to mountainous soils: conservation and management strategies - p. 23 12. Chapter 3 Integrated remedial and management strategies for sustaining mountainous soil - p. 43 13. Chapter 4 Microbial perspectives for the agricultural soil health management in mountain forests under climatic stress - p. 59 14. Chapter 5 Soil biological processes of mountainous landscapes: a holistic view - p. 91 15. Chapter 6 Soil nutrient dynamics under selected tree species explains the soil fertility and restoration potential in a semi-arid forest of the Aravalli Mountain range - p. 115 16. Chapter 7 Soil nutrient dynamics under mountainous landscape: issues and challenges - p. 131 17. Chapter 8 Microbial community structure and climate change: impact of agricultural management practices in mountainous landscapes - p. 151 18. Chapter 9 Biochar-mediated nutrients and microbial community dynamics in montane landscapes - p. 165 19. Chapter 10 Hair to canopy: role of organic debris in soil formation and succession of rock ecosystem - p. 185 20. Chapter 11 Tourism and the properties of mountainous soil: a dynamic relationship - p. 213 21. Chapter 12 Assessment of soil organic carbon stocks in Sahyadri mountain range Karnataka, India - p. 231 22. Chapter 13 Soil development on alluvial fans in the mountainous arid regions: a case study of Spiti valley in North-western Himalaya, India - p. 245 23. Chapter 14 Soil organic carbon and soil properties for REDD implementation in Nepal: experience from different land use management in three districts of Nepal - p. 267 24. Chapter 15 Urbanization and resilience in mountain soil ecosystem: case of outwash fan area of Leh, Ladakh, India - p. 281 25. Chapter 16 Understanding the urbanization induced issues in mountainous ecosystems of India: a comparative study between Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu), and Lower Himalayas (Uttarakhand), India - p. 303 26. Chapter 17 Prediction of land cover changes of Khagrachhari Hilly Upazila using artificial-neural-network-based cellular automata model - p. 325 27. Chapter 18 Plant functional traits: mountainous soil function and ecosystem services - p. 347 28. Chapter 19 Socioeconomic and ecological sustainability of agroforestry in mountain regions - p. 375 29. Index - p. 395
Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes: Sustainable Use of Soil Ecosystem Services and Management focuses on the patterns and processes of mountainous soils, including threats due to the fragile nature of mountain ecosystems, and the conservation and management of soil ecosystem services and restoration processes. The book covers a balanced approach to land and resource management, ensuring that environmentally and socio-culturally sound interventions are developed and applied in the complex geophysical, ecological, and social landscapes of the world's mountain systems. The book provides holistic understanding of mountain soils to help environmental and soil scientists gain insight and develop new problem-solving approaches.
With obvious up- and downstream linkages (e.g., a large proportion of urban canters globally depend on water that originates in the mountains) as well as globalization (e.g., continental-scale impacts of air pollution and climate change on glaciers), the long-range success of conservation measures in mountain regions requires that the following discrete but interconnected interventions be pursued concurrently: (1) the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services, (2) empowerment of mountain communities (including family farming), and (3) elaboration of more thoughtful, context-specific policy environments for sustainable mountain development.
1. Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. v 5. Copyright Page - p. iv 6. List of Contributors - p. xiii 7. About the editors - p. xvii 8. Foreword - p. xix 9. Preface - p. xxi 10. Chapter 1 Mountain soils and climate change: importance, threats and mitigation measures - p. 3 11. Chapter 2 Threats to mountainous soils: conservation and management strategies - p. 23 12. Chapter 3 Integrated remedial and management strategies for sustaining mountainous soil - p. 43 13. Chapter 4 Microbial perspectives for the agricultural soil health management in mountain forests under climatic stress - p. 59 14. Chapter 5 Soil biological processes of mountainous landscapes: a holistic view - p. 91 15. Chapter 6 Soil nutrient dynamics under selected tree species explains the soil fertility and restoration potential in a semi-arid forest of the Aravalli Mountain range - p. 115 16. Chapter 7 Soil nutrient dynamics under mountainous landscape: issues and challenges - p. 131 17. Chapter 8 Microbial community structure and climate change: impact of agricultural management practices in mountainous landscapes - p. 151 18. Chapter 9 Biochar-mediated nutrients and microbial community dynamics in montane landscapes - p. 165 19. Chapter 10 Hair to canopy: role of organic debris in soil formation and succession of rock ecosystem - p. 185 20. Chapter 11 Tourism and the properties of mountainous soil: a dynamic relationship - p. 213 21. Chapter 12 Assessment of soil organic carbon stocks in Sahyadri mountain range Karnataka, India - p. 231 22. Chapter 13 Soil development on alluvial fans in the mountainous arid regions: a case study of Spiti valley in North-western Himalaya, India - p. 245 23. Chapter 14 Soil organic carbon and soil properties for REDD implementation in Nepal: experience from different land use management in three districts of Nepal - p. 267 24. Chapter 15 Urbanization and resilience in mountain soil ecosystem: case of outwash fan area of Leh, Ladakh, India - p. 281 25. Chapter 16 Understanding the urbanization induced issues in mountainous ecosystems of India: a comparative study between Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu), and Lower Himalayas (Uttarakhand), India - p. 303 26. Chapter 17 Prediction of land cover changes of Khagrachhari Hilly Upazila using artificial-neural-network-based cellular automata model - p. 325 27. Chapter 18 Plant functional traits: mountainous soil function and ecosystem services - p. 347 28. Chapter 19 Socioeconomic and ecological sustainability of agroforestry in mountain regions - p. 375 29. Index - p. 395
