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Sulphur in Agroecosystems

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Ewald Schnug

    1. Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (FAL), Braunschweig, Germany

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Part of the book series: Nutrients in Ecosystems (NECO, volume 2)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Diagnosis of Sulphur Nutrition

    • Ewald Schnug, Silvia Haneklaus
    Pages 1-38

  3. The Soil Sulphur Cycle

    • J. Eriksen, M. D. Murphy, E. Schnug
    Pages 39-73

  4. The Atmospheric Sulphur Cycle

    • Ulrich Dämmgen, Kerr Walker, Ludger Grünhage, Hans-Jürgen Jäger
    Pages 75-114

  5. Sulphur Fertilisation

    • C. A. Pedersen, L. Knudsen, E. Schnug
    Pages 115-134

  6. The Plant Sulphur Cycle

    • RÜdiger Hell, Heinz Rennenberg
    Pages 135-173

  7. A Global Overview of the Sulphur Situation: Industry’S Background, Market Trends, and Commercial Aspects of Sulphur Fertilizers

    • S. P. Ceccotti, R. J. Morris, D. L. Messick
    Pages 175-202

  8. Sulphur and Stress

    • Hans H. Harms
    Pages 203-221
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About this book

This is the second volume in the series Nutrients in Ecosystems. Sulphur as an essential plant nutrient has received little attention. This is explained by the facts that sulphur was obviously in sufficient supply from the atmosphere, from soil and as a by-product in mineral fertilizers. Increases in the yield potential and thus in the nutrient requirement of modern crops, however, as well as remarkable changes in SO2 emissions by private households, power stations and industry, associated with legislative measures to reduce air and water pollution, have altered the situation to a large extent. In particular the public concerns about forest decline and pollution-induced climatic changes have initiated extensive research programs on the physiological functions of sulphur in plants, on the occurrence and plant availability of sulphur in agricultural and forest soils and on the chemistry of sulphur compounds in the tropo- and stratosphere.
This book cannot be an encylcopedia of sulphur in all the media mentioned nor in all ecozones of the globe. However, it aims to give an overview of our present knowledge with a special focus on the sulphur situation in agrosystems of industrialised Western Europe. The ecological trends for sulphur observed in this region during recent decades are likely to be mirrored wherever industrialisation and urbanisation take place and where an increasing standard of living demands clean air, good drinking water and nutritious food. Agricultural production systems, therefore, require well-founded information on the actual sulphur nutrition and potential sulphur-fertilizer requirement of crops and soils respectively. It is hoped that this book will provide this information and will encourage further research where open questions still exist.

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`... a major contribution and meets its aims... excellent reference for teaching and a very useful reference for those involved in research areas of the chemistry, biochenmistry, and fertility of soils and in plant nutrition.'
Soil Science, 165:3 (2000)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (FAL), Braunschweig, Germany

    Ewald Schnug

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sulphur in Agroecosystems

  • Editors: Ewald Schnug

  • Series Title: Nutrients in Ecosystems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5100-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5123-8Published: 31 July 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6142-1Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5100-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1387-5248

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 223

  • Topics: Plant Physiology, Soil Science & Conservation, Atmospheric Sciences

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