Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

517 Maestre FT, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Jeffries TC et al (2015) Increasing aridity reduces soil micro- bial diversity and abundanc ...

518 Praveen Kumar G, Leo Daniel AE, Desai S, Sk MHA (2013) Prospective zinc solubilising bacteria for enhanced nutrient uptake a ...

519 Sharma SB, Sayyed RZ, Trivedi MH, Gobi TA (2013) Phosphate solubilizing microbes: sustain- able approach for managing phosph ...

520 Timmusk S, Wagner EGH (1999) The plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Paenibacillus poly- myxa induces changes in Arabidops ...

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016 521 M. Farooq, K.H.M. Siddique (eds.), Innovations in Dryland Agriculture, DOI 10.10 ...

522 Pakistan – Qureshi and Barrett-Lennard 1998 ) or in situations where perennial veg- etation is substituted by annual vegetat ...

523 some in the natural condition and others through land management. More than 2 M ha of farmland in Australia were estimated t ...

524 There is a view that divalent ions (e.g., Mg2+, Ca2+ and SO 42 −) have less severe effects on plants than monovalent ions (e ...

525 profile where it can be mobilised by groundwater. The four main sources of salt in dryland agricultural areas are rainfall, ...

526 4.2 Salt Mobilisation Changes to native vegetation, especially clearing, intensive grazing and/or increased burning can all ...

527 and direct groundwater seepage is apparent, saline areas are referred to as ‘saline seeps’ or ‘seepage scalds’ and may be as ...

528 In the more common non artesian or watertable condition, aquifer discharge is passive, driven by evaporation and soil water ...

529 (iii) Irrigation salinity usually occurs under the irrigated area whereas dryland salinity can occur some distance from the ...

530 5 Estimating the Extent of Saline Areas, Monitoring Change and Predicting Its Future Extent 5.1 Estimating the Extent and Ch ...

531 result of surface drainage may be sufficient to ‘reclaim’ salt-affected land when the interaction between the two problems i ...

532 5.1.6 Satellite Remote Sensing Satellites provide routine digital reflectance at several wavelengths which can be trained to ...

533 5.2 Predicting the Future Extent of Dryland Salinity Identifying areas that may be at risk from dryland salinity in future, ...

534 6.1 Revegetation with Deep-Rooted Perennials The use of perennial vegetation to recover dryland salinity has been postulated ...

535 means of salinity management. Skaggs and van Schilfgaarde ( 1999 ) document 1400 pages of the theory and practice of drainag ...

536 6.3 Integrated Solutions Development of integrated catchment solutions to salinity management has been a vision for salinity ...