Best golf course management practices : construction, watering, fertilizing, cultural practices, and pest management strategies to maintain golf course turf with minimal environmental impact
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Best golf course management practices : construction, watering, fertilizing, cultural practices, and pest management strategies to maintain golf course turf with minimal environmental impact
Prentice Hall, c2011
3rd ed
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Previous ed. published: 2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. 740-743) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Best Golf Course Management Practices, 3e provides up-to-date basic and applied information on grasses available, their selection and use; soils and soil amendments; critical management decisions; pest management and IPM practices; environmental concerns and strategies to develop best management practices for golf courses; and personnel and financial considerations when developing and implementing annual budgets, leasing vs. buying equipment, and managing inventory. The author and 27 acclaimed contributors share their expertise in areas ranging from turfgrass to environmental science. The most current and comprehensive publication on the market, Best Golf Course Management Practices provides the need-to-know information that leads to successful golf course construction and maintenance.
Table of Contents
1. Turfgrasses
2. Turfgrass Physiology and Environmental Stresses
3. Soil Chemical Properties
4. Soil Physical Properties and Drainage Characteristics
5. Soil Oxygen and Temperature Properties
6. Soil Organisms
7. Golf Course Construction and Renovation
8. Putting Green Construction
9. Turfgrass Establishment and "Grow-In
10. Plant Nutrition and Turf Fertilizers
11. Developing Turf Fertilizer Programs and Fertilizer Calculations
12. Water Management and Conservation in Turf
13. Irrigation Water Quality
14. Cultural Practices for Golf Courses
15. Managing Bentgrass/Poa annua Golf Greens in Stressful Environments
16. Managing Bermudagrass Golf Greens
17. Managing Seashore Paspalum
18. Integrated Pest Management
19. Turfgrass Diseases
20. Turfgrass Insects
21. Turfgrass Nematodes
22. Turfgrass Weeds
23. Turfgrass Plant Growth Regulators
24. Effective, Safe, and Legal Use of Pesticides
25. Best Golf Course Environmental Protection Strategies
26. Sprayer and Spreader Calibration
27. Budgets and Personnel Management
Appendix A: Stoke's equation for Calculating the Velocity of Falling Particles and Darcy's Equation for Calculating Hydraulic Conductivity.
Appendix B: Calculating Soil Porosity.
Appendix C Chemical and Physical Properties of Organic Materials Used in Turf
Appendix D Surface Area Calculations
Appendix E Calibration Formulas and Metric Conversion Tables
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