{"product_id":"9788716102270","title":"Ecological Bulletins, Ecological Implications of Contemporary Agriculture","description":"Agronomists and ecologists need each other and can learn from each other: agriculture cannot ignore ecological facts, neither can ecology study and conserve ecosystems without understanding contemporary agriculture. With this intention a symposium was organized on \"the ecological implications of contemporary agriculture\". Five major groups of problems were discussed, related to major elements of the system, each corresponding to a session of the symposium: - the soil and its life; - the plants, especially the unwanted ones; - the fauna, with emphasis on the control of pests; - the nutrient cycles and nutrient budgets (the driving force); - the connecting elements in the rural landscape, related as they are with lotting out. For each subject (session) two invited papers were presented in combination with a varying number of posters. All these papers were encompassed by the opening and closing lectures, which sketch the societal framework within which a more ecological approach of agriculture has to be worked out. In this overview the different elements are rearranged and assessed according to four major groups of problems: lotting out, nutrient management, soil treatment, and weed and arthropod control. It is concluded with some comments on the possibilities to realize more ecological approaches in the framework of farming-practice and EC-politics.","brand":"H. Eijsackers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47619229090110,"sku":"9788716102270","price":2821.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9788716102270.jpg?v=1707778669","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9788716102270","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}