Forest Soil and Forest Growth

The book is aimed to interpret forest soils as carriers of definite floristic associations as media for growth of nursery stock on forest plantations and as dynamic systems that react the different forms of silvicultural cutting. To stress important of large genetic soil groups as natural acclimatization units has also been provided. This book is pioneer effort in the field because it is prepared after the practical test of field and laboratory trial. These are 20 chapters in the book. These are historical introductory of the soil, upland soils, hydromorphic and embryonic soils, forest cover, physical and chemical properties, organisms, humus, soil types, soil survey, soil and tree planting, a melionation of forest soils, silvicultural cuttings in relation to soils, productivity, use of composts, liquid fertilizers and green manuring crops, control of parasitic organisms in soils etc. have been given in detail.