Meet the editors

Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is an assistant professor in the Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Meena is a recipient of the Raman Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (GOI). He completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Prof. Rattan Lal, Director, Carbon Management

and Sequestration Center (CMASC), Columbus, USA, World Food Prize Laureate 2020. Dr. Meena has supervised many postgraduate students and Ph.D. candidates and has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience. He is currently working on three externally funded projects: DST, MHRD, and ICAR. Dr. Meena has published more than 110 research and review papers in indexed journals as well as numerous books and book chapters, both nationally and internationally. He has worked as an expert for the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), MHRD, and GOI. Dr. Meena contributes to many agricultural extension activities, training, meetings, workshops, and so on.

Dr. Rahul Datta is a soil microbiologist and enzymologist. He obtained an MSc and Ph.D. from the Department of Geology and Pedology, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic, where he is currently a researcher. Dr. Datta's research focuses on understanding the effect of biogenic and xenobiotic substances on microbial metabolism in the soil. During his career, Dr. Datta has acquired global experience in soil science research by working

with renowned scientists. He worked as a visiting scientist with Dr. Richard Dick at Ohio State University, Ohio, USA, and Prof. Paolo Nannipieri at the University of Florence, Italy. Dr. Datta has published numerous research articles and books and has reviewed 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is currently a reviewer for fifty-eight major scientific journals. Dr. Datta is an editorial board member of Open Agriculture and is hosting a special issue of the Journal of Agriculture and Sustainability. He is also a current member of the Soil Science Society of America.

Contents

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 45**

**Chapter 4 73**

**Chapter 5 109**

**Chapter 6 119**

Soil Erosion Influencing Factors in the Semiarid Area of Northern Shaanxi

Delineation of Soil Moisture Potentials and Moisture Balance Components

Soil and Water Conservation Measures for Agricultural Sustainability

*by Aleš Kučera, Pavel Samec, Aleš Bajer, Keith Ronald Skene, Tomáš Vichta,* 

*by Anita Kumawat, Devideen Yadav, Kala Samadharmam* 

*Valerie Vranová, Ram Swaroop Meena and Rahul Datta*

Water Plant and Soil Relation under Stress Situations

*by Muthuraman Yuvaraj, Kasiviswanathan Subash Chandra Bose,* 

*by Ning Ai, Qingke Zhu, Guangquan Liu and Tianxing Wei*

*by Rajan Bhatt and Ram Swaroop Meena*

Forest Soil Water in Landscape Context

*and Ittyamkandath Rashmi*

*by Adrijana Filipović*

Province, China

Soil Salinity and Its Management

*Prabakaran Elavarasi and Eman Tawfik*
