| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series |
Waste and waste management series |
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Waste and waste management series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Resource Recovery by Composting -- Materials, Techniques, Quality Assessment / E. Smidt, K. Meissl, J. Tintner and E. Binner -- Compost Evaluation and Utilization / Antonis A. Zorpas -- Succession and Phylogenetic Composition of Microbial Communities Responsible for the Composting Process of Rice Straw / Vita Ratri Cahyani and Makoto Kimura -- The Effect of Compo sting on the Survival of Parasitic Germs / Ingrid Papajova and Peter Juris -- Pedofauna Biodiversity and Soil Indicators in a Venezuelan Amazonian Sandy Savanna Soil: Long-Term Amended with Low Inputs of In Situ Produced Compost / D. Lopez-Hernandez, Y. Araujo, A.Y Lopez-Contreras, C. Hernandez and L. Hernandez-Valencia -- Analysis of the Bacterial Community and its Succession in the Compost by Using Molecular Biological Methods, 16S rrna Gene Clone Analysis and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Analysis / Keiko Watanabe and Norio Kurosawa -- Effect of Continuous Compost Application on Carbon and Nitrogen Contents of Whole Soils and their Particle Size Fractions in a Field Subjected Mainly to Double Cropping / Maiko Tanaka and Haruo Shindo -- Biotic Landfill Ch₄ Emission Abatement Using Bio-Waste Compost as a Landfill Cover / M. Chapman and B. Antizar-Ladislao -- Composting Approaches of Contaminated Soils and Waste / B. Antizar-Ladislao and N.J. Russell -- Lignocellulolytic Microorganisms from a Composting Habitat: Current and Future Prospects / M.C. Vargas-Garcia, M.J. Lopez, F. Suarez-Estrella and J. Moreno. |
| Summary |
This volume provides a short historic survey of composting which has been performed since the beginning of agriculture and horticulture as it can be operated with marginal technical equipment. This book also presents new methodologies including the use of earthworms in agroecosystems and ways to address problems that occur in a composting reactor that can be solved by a better understanding of the microbial community. Composting is the aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter, producing compost. Compost products can be used as a high quality and hygienically safe fertilizer. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Compost.
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Organic fertilizers.
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Organic wastes as fertilizer.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Compost. (OCoLC)fst00871782
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Organic fertilizers. (OCoLC)fst01047709
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Organic wastes as fertilizer. (OCoLC)fst01047750
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| Added Author |
Pereira, Joseph C.
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Bolin, John L.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Composting. Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science Publishers, ©2009 9781607414384 (DLC) 2009009088 (OCoLC)312445957 |
| ISBN |
9781617281945 (electronic bk.) |
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1617281948 (electronic bk.) |
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