Advances in Agronomy. Volume 181

Table of Contents

1.The Role of Earthworms in Agronomy: Consensus, Novel Insights and Remaining ChallengesAlix Vidal, Manuel Blouin, Ingrid Lubbers, Yvan Capowiez, Juan C. Sanches-Hernandez, Tullia Calugiuri and Jan Willem van Groenigen2. Modeling of Irrigation and Related Processes with HYDRUSNaftali Lazarovitch, Isaya Kisekka, Tobias Ebong Oker, Giuseppe Brunetti, Thomas Wohling, Li Xianyue, Li Yong, Todd H. Skaggs, Alex Furman, Salini Sasidharan, Iael Raij-Hoffman and Jiri Simunek3. Conservation Agriculture Impacts on Regenerating Soil Health, Carbon Sequestration, and Climate Change Mitigation in South AsiaM. L. Jat, M. K. Gathala, M. Choudhary, Sandeep Sharma, H. S. Jat, Haveen Gupta and Yadvinder-Singh4. Remote and Proximal Sensing: How Far has it Come to Help Plant Breeders? Mohsen Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi, Keshav D. Sing, Alireza Pourreza, Karansher S. Sandhu, Alper Adak, Seth C. Murray, Milad Eskandari and Istvan Rajcan

Authors

Donald L. Sparks Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. DONALD L. SPARKS is the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Francis Alison Professor at the University of Delaware. He is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of kinetics of biogeochemical processes and surface chemistry of natural materials. His research has focused on fate and transport of trace metals in soil and water, soil remediation, water quality, and carbon sequestration in soils. Dr. Sparks is the author of two previous editions of Environmental Soil Chemistry and more than 350 refereed papers and book chapters. He is fellow of five scientific societies, and he has been the recipient of major awards and lectureships including the Geochemistry Medal from the American Chemical Society, the Liebig Medal from the International Union of Soil Sciences, the Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal from the European Geosciences Union. Dr. Sparks served as president of the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, has served on advisory committees for several national laboratories and national and international centers and institutes, and served as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Soil Sciences and other NAS Committees.