Long-term experiments in agricultural and ecological sciences : proceedings of a conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Rothamsted Experimental Station, held at Rothamsted, 14-17 July 1993 /

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Imprint:Wallingford : CAB International, c1994.
Description:xiv, 428 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2331858
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Varying Form of Title:Long term experiments in agricultural and ecological sciences
Other authors / contributors:Leigh, R. A. (Roger A.)
Johnston, A. E.
C.A.B. International.
Rothamsted Experimental Station.
ISBN:0851989330
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Foreword T. Lewis
  • I. The Contribution of Long-term Experiments to Agriculture and Forestry
  • 1. The Importance of Long-term Experimentation
  • 2. The Rothamsted Classical Experiments
  • 3. The Sanborn Field Experiment
  • 4. Long-term Field Trials in Australia
  • 5. Long-term Experimentation in Forestry and Site Change
  • II. Unforeseen Uses and Benefits of Long-term Field Experiments
  • 6. Quantification of Nutrient Cycles Using Long-term Experiments
  • 7. How the Rothamsted Classical Experiments Have Been Used to Develop and Test Models for the Turnover of Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil
  • 8. Polyetic Epidemics by Plan or Contingency
  • 9. Historical Monitoring of Organic Contaminants in Soil
  • 10. Statistics and the Long-term Experiments: Past Achievements and Future Challenges
  • III. Current Needs for Long-term Eperiments in the Development of Agriculture
  • 11. Long-term Cropping Experiments in Developing Countries: The Need, the History and the Future
  • 12. Long-term Agricultural Experiments in Eastern Europe
  • 13. Long-term Experiments in Africa: Developing a Database for Sustainable Land Use under Global Change
  • 14. The Management of Long-term Agricultural Field
  • IV. Monitoring Long-term Ecosystems, Population Dynamics and Environmental Change
  • 15. Climate-Vegetation Relationships in the Bibury Road Verge Experiments
  • 16. The Park Grass Experiment: Insights fromt he Most Long-term Ecological Study
  • 17. Long-term Studies of Tropical FOrest Dynamics
  • 18. Flying in the Face of Change: The Rothamsted Insect Survey
  • 19. Long-term Studies and Monitoring of Bird Populations
  • 20. Long-term Planktonic Time Series as Monitors of Marine Environmental Change
  • 21. The Sensitivity of Freshwater Placktonic Communities to Environmental Change: Monitoring
  • 22. Monitoring Environmental Change Through Networks
  • Index