1st Edition

Agricultural Ecology

By Joy Tivy Copyright 1990
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book analyses the nature of the relationships between crops, livestock and the bio-physical environment, and the extent to which man has managed and modified the products and environment to suit his/her own particular needs.

    1. The agro-ecosystem. 2. Crops. 3. Agroclimate. 4. The cultivated soil. 5. Nutrient cycling. 6. Agricultural productivity. 7. Domestic livestock. 8. Land capability for agriculture. 9. Pastoral farming. 10. The humid tropical lowlands. 11. Rice. 12. Dryland agriculture. 13. Irrigation agriculture. 14. Intensive agriculture. 15. Agriculture and the environment.

    Biography

    Joy Tivy