Sports Turf Management

This book presents comprehensive scientific principles and detailed, practical management and assessment recommendations for turfgrass and landscape sites. The book presents emerging challenges, technology, and concepts that address integration of salinity management into comprehensive site environmental or sustainable management systems.

This industry favourite offers the latest information on growth, nutrition, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides, as well as shade stress and light requirements and the benefits of turf. This book provides turf managers with the most current thinking and new developments in wide range of topics, such as fertilization, grass selection, pest management, plant growth regulators, sports turf management practices, soil testing, and water quality.

This book examines field problems in a logical manner, provides clear scientific explanations, and offers detailed practical information for resolving each specific problem in an environmentally sustainable manner. It discusses factors that affect the quality of water, assists readers in understanding irrigation water quality tests, and examines field monitoring.

Designed for both aspiring and practicing turfgrass managers, this book explains the science behind plant growth and soil properties and how to evaluate, establish and maintain a variety of green spaces, including golf courses, athletic fields, and landscaped lawns.

This book provides a logical and scientifically sound approach to irrigation in urban areas in Australia. It is based on green space delivering defined outcomes using the principles of water sensitive urban design and irrigation efficiency. The book covers all stages of the water pathway from the source to delivery into the plant root zone.