Research Catalog

Title

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 / edited by R.A. Leigh, A.E. Johnston.

Publication

Wallingford : CAB International, ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Leigh, R. A. (Roger A.)
• Johnston, A. E.
• C.A.B. International.
• Rothamsted Experimental Station.

Description

xiv, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Various long-term experiments in the USA, Australia, Eastern Europe and Africa are described. Also chapters on long-term studies of climate-vegetation relationships, tropical forest dynamics, bird populations and planktonic communities as monitors of marine environmental change are included. It illustrates that long-term experimentation and monitoring are vitally important in understanding changes that are occurring in the environment and the way they interact with agriculture and natural ecosystems

Subject

• Agriculture > Research > Congresses
• Agriculture > Longitudinal studies > Congresses
• Agriculture > Experiments > Congresses
• Ecology > Research > Congresses
• Ecology > Longitudinal studies > Congresses
• Ecology > Experiments > Congresses
• Agriculture > Experiments
• Agriculture > Research
• Ecology > Experiments
• Ecology > Research
• Experiment
• Feldversuch
• Kongress
• Landwirtschaft
• Langzeitversuch
• Ökologie
• Agricultura (Estacoes Experimentais)
• Ecologia Aplicada
• Kongreß

Genre/Form

• Festschriften
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Festschriften.
• Harpenden (1993)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / R.A. Leigh and A.E. Johnston -- Foreword / T. Lewis -- I. The Contribution of Long-term Experiments to Agriculture and Forestry. 1. The Importance of Long-term Experimentation / T.R.E. Southwood. 2. The Rothamsted Classical Experiments / A.E. Johnston. 3. The Sanborn Field Experiment / J.R. Brown. 4. Long-term Field Trials in Australia / P. Grace and J.M. Oades. 5. Long-term Experimentation in Forestry and Site Change / Julian Evans -- II. Unforeseen Uses and Benefits of Long-term Field Experiments. 6. Quantification of Nutrient Cycles Using Long-term Experiments / D.S. Powlson. 7. How the Rothamsted Classical Experiments Have Been Used to Develop and Test Models for the Turnover of Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil / D.S. Jenkinson, N.J. Bradbury and K. Coleman. 8. Polyetic Epidemics by Plan or Contingency / J.C. Zadoks. 9. Historical Monitoring of Organic Contaminants in Soils / K.C. Jones, A.E. Johnston and S.P. McGrath. 10. Statistics and the Long-term Experiments: Past Achievements and Future Challenges / V. Barnett -- III. Current Needs for Long-term Experiments in the Development of Agriculture. 11. Long-term Cropping Experiments in Developing Countries: The Need, the History and the Future / D.J. Greenland. 12. Long-term Agricultural Experiments in Eastern Europe. I. Long-term Continuous Experiments in Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovakia / S. Mercik. II. Some Recent Results from the Long-term Experiment at Fundulea, Romania / V. Mihaila and C. Hera. 13. Long-term Experiments in Africa: Developing a Database for Sustainable Land Use under Global Change / M.J. Swift, P.D. Seward, P.G.H. Frost, J.N. Qureshi and F.N. Muchena. 14. The Management of Long-term Agricultural Field Experiments: Procedures and Policies Evolved from the Rothamsted Classical Experiments / R.A. Leigh, R.D. Prew and A.E. Johnston -- IV. Monitoring Long-term Ecosystems, Population Dynamics and Environmental Change. 15. Climate-Vegetation Relationships in the Bibury Road Verge Experiments / J.P. Grime, A.J. Willis, R. Hunt and N.P. Dunnett. 16. The Park Grass Experiment: Insights from the Most Long-term Ecological Study / D. Tilman, M.E. Dodd, J. Silvertown, P.R. Poulton, A.E. Johnston and M.J. Crawley. 17. Long-term Studies of Tropical Forest Dynamics / M.D. Swaine. 18. Flying in the Face of Change: The Rothamsted Insect Survey / I.P. Woiwod and R. Harrington. 19. Long-term Studies and Monitoring of Bird Populations / J.J.D. Greenwood, S.R. Baillie and H.Q.P. Crick. 20. Long-term Planktonic Time Series as Monitors of Marine Environmental Change / J.C. Gamble. 21. The Sensitivity of Freshwater Planktonic Communities to Environmental Change: Monitoring, Mechanisms and Models / S.C. Maberly, C.S. Reynolds, D.G. George, E.Y. Haworth and J.W.G. Lund. 22. Monitoring Environmental Change Through Networks / P.B. Tinker.

ISBN

• 0851989330
• 9780851989334

OCLC

• ocm32131176
• 32131176
• SCSB-9862083

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library