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. |
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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 |
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