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EST 2107: Soil Environment: Recommended References

This document outlines the course EST 2107 Soil Environment which is worth 3 credits and covers topics related to soil properties, composition, and management over 13 weeks. The course covers soil as a medium for plant growth, soil formation and classification, physical properties of soil including texture, structure and water movement, soil chemistry including pH and nutrients, soil erosion prevention, and soil taxonomy. Recommended references are provided for further reading.

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EST 2107: Soil Environment: Recommended References

This document outlines the course EST 2107 Soil Environment which is worth 3 credits and covers topics related to soil properties, composition, and management over 13 weeks. The course covers soil as a medium for plant growth, soil formation and classification, physical properties of soil including texture, structure and water movement, soil chemistry including pH and nutrients, soil erosion prevention, and soil taxonomy. Recommended references are provided for further reading.

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EST 2107: Soil Environment

Course Number: EST 2107 Course Title: Soil Environment Credit: 3 [3 hours per week for a period of 13 (3X13 hours) weeks] 1. Soil as a medium for plant growth: factors of plant growth, plant roots and soil relations ; soil fertility and soil productivity 2. Soil as a natural body: the parent material of soil ; soil formation; soils as natural bodies 3. Soil physical propertie: soil texture; soil structure; soil consistence; density and weight relationships; soil pore space and porosity; soil color; soil temperature 4. Soil water and management: soil water energy continuum; energy and pressure relationships; the soil water potential; soil water movement; plant and soil water relations; soil water regime; water conservation; soil drainage; irrigation 5. Soil chemistry: chemical composition of soils; ion exchange; soil pH ; significance of soil pH , management of soil pH; the liming equation and soil buffering ; soil acidulation 6. Soil erosion and conservation: predicting erosion rates on agricultural land; application of the soil-loss equation; the soil loss tolerance value; water erosion on urban lands; wind erosion; factors affecting wind erosion 7. Soil nutirent and fertilizer: the organic matter in ecosystems; chemical and mineralogical composition of the earth's crust; soil macronutrient and micronutrients; plant nutrient relationship; fertilizer; soil fertility evaluation and fertilizer use 8. Soil taxonomy: diagnostic surface horizons; diagnostic subsurface horizons; soil moisture regimes; categories of soil taxonomy; the abac soils; the pedon; classification of soils of bangladesh and their correlation with other systems of classifications; nutrient status of soils of bangladesh.

Recommended References: Henry D. Foth (1990). Fundamentals of Soil Science. 8th ed. John Wileys & Sons. Brady & Weil (2008). The Nature and Properties of Soils. 14th ed. Prentice Hall. Brammer H (1996), The Geography of the soils of Bangladesh. University Press Ltd, Dhaka

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