Clay Research
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue: 1

Soil Clay Minerals and Ecosystem Services

Vice-Chancellor (Formerly), Dr. Balasaheb, Sawant Konkan Krishi, Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, Maharashtra

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6th Professor Sushil Kumar Mukherjee CMSI Foundation Lecture delivered at the 23rd Convention of the Clay Minerals Society of India on 23 September 2019 at New Delhi, India

Abstract

Information system and its utility in ecosystem services is a step ahead of understanding and managing natural resources including soils/soil minerals. Ecosystem services provide a value on diversity in soils, plants, and animals and the way these natural resources perform various functions. It includes a range of services which are essential to our health and well-being of the society, in general, and environment, in particular. Therefore, georeferenced information system with soil/soil mineral shall help students and planners to protect the mother earth.