Major Minerals

Treated Wastewater in Agriculture: Use and Impacts on the Soil Environment and Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 129-215

  Bar Tal, Asher ^a   Bar Yosef, Bnayahu ^a   Eshel, Gil ^b   Singer, Michael J ^c  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium and carbonate; Carbonate minerals, important source and sink for C and Ca in soils; Carbonate minerals, in soils mixture of carbonates precipitating in situ as pedogenic carbonate; Carbonate system in soil environment; Effluent irrigation, affecting P behavior in soil; Environmental aspect of carbonate and Ca and TWW irrigation, exogenous elements to carbonate minerals; Ion composition in soil and irrigation water; Irrigation with reclaimed municipal wastewater affecting phosphorus (P) status in soil; Leaching and movement in soil; Nitrification, process of oxidation of ammonium to nitrate two step microbial process; Nitrogen concentration in tissues critical value for transition, net immobilization to net mineralization; Nitrogen cycle in soil; Nitrogen in treated wastewater irrigation essential nutrient elements for all living organisms; Nitrogen transformations and nitrogen mineralization inorganic N from organic N; pCO2 in soil profile 10 100 times higher than in the atmosphere; Phosphorus; Phosphorus sorption, two phases fast surface reaction and slow reaction; Phosphorus transport in runoff runoff and erosion, releasing P from soil to runoff solution; Reclaimed wastewater P behavior and fate in soil P leaching and runoff risks; Soil environment and crop impacts major minerals; Soil pH, important parameters describing soil environment; Soils and water from semiarid and arid regions containing Ca and Mg carbonates; Temperature effects on kinetics of microbial respiration and net N mineralization; Treated wastewater (TWW), higher concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC); Treated wastewater irrigation phosphorus application versus consumption rate; TWW N availability to plants important agricultural, environmental, and economical issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886071969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328561.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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