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Soil Biodiversity in Amazonian and Other Brazilian Ecosystems

Author : F. M. S. Moreira
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845930347
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Book Synopsis Soil Biodiversity in Amazonian and Other Brazilian Ecosystems by : F. M. S. Moreira

Download or read book Soil Biodiversity in Amazonian and Other Brazilian Ecosystems written by F. M. S. Moreira and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of biological diversity has become an increased concern over recent years and is now enshrined in international conventions. Most biodiversity in fact occurs in the soil. Soil organisms (especially bacteria, fungi and soil invertebrates) play a major role in the formation of soil structure and are primary agents of decomposition and are drivers of nutrient cycling, and hence agricultural production.This book reviews soil biodiversity in one of the key biodiversity hotspots of the world, i.e. the Amazon and nearby regions of Brazil. It covers both the tropical savannah and rain forests . The work reported is based on a project "Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-Ground Biodiversity", executed by TSBF-CIAT with co-financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implementation support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The book represents a major contribution to the literature and will interest those in biodiversity conservation, soil scienceand ecology and biodiversity conservation.

Amazon Soils

Author : Wim G. Sombroek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Amazon Soils written by Wim G. Sombroek and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazon soils: areconnaissance of the soils of the Brazilian Amazon region.

Amazonian Dark Earths

Author : Johannes Lehmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402025971
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Amazonian Dark Earths written by Johannes Lehmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-25 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Earths are a testament to vanished civilizations of the Amazon Basin, but may also answer how large societies could sustain intensive agriculture in an environment of infertile soils. This book examines their origin, properties, and management. Questions remain: were they intentionally produced or a by-product of habitation. Additional new and multidisciplinary perspectives by leading experts may pave the way for the next revolution in soil management in the humid tropics.

Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

Author : William I. Woods
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402090315
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision written by William I. Woods and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed ‘terra preta’ or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future sustainability of food production in tropical environments. The late Dutch soil scientist Wim Sombroek (1934-2003) was instrumental in bringing the significance of these soils to the attention of the world over four decades ago. Wim saw not only the possibilities of improving the lives of small holders throughout the world with simple carbon based soil technologies, but was an early proponent of the positive synergies also achieved in regards to carbon sequestration and global climatic change abatement. Wim’s vision was to form a multidisciplinary group whose members maintained the ideal of open collaboration toward the attainment of shared goals. Always encouraged and often shaped by Wim, this free association of international scholars termed the “Terra Preta Nova” Group came together in 2001 and has flourished. This effort has been defined by enormous productivity. Wim who is never far from any of our minds and hearts, would have loved to share the great experience of seeing the fruits of his vision as demonstrated in this volume.

The Brazilian Amazon

Author : Joana Bezerra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319230301
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Brazilian Amazon written by Joana Bezerra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to analyse the current development scenario in the Amazon, using Terra Preta de Índio as a case study. To do so it is necessary to go back in time, both in the national and international sphere, through the second half of the last century to analyse its trajectory. It will be equally important analyse the current issues regarding the Amazon – sustainable development and climate change – and how they still reproduce some of the problems that marked the history of the forest, such as the absence of Amazonian dark earths as a relevant theme to the Amazon. In a world in which the environment gains each time more space in the national and international political agenda, the Amazon stands out. Known around the world for its richness, the South-American forest is the target of different visions, often contradictory ones, and it plays with everyone’s imagination. This is where the terra preta de índio – Amazonian Dark Earths - are found, a fertile soil horizon with high concentrations of carbon with anthropic origins, which has generated great interest from the scientific community. Studies on these soils and their so singular characteristics have triggered crucial discussions on the past, present and the future of the entire Amazon region. Despite its singular characteristics, the importance of Amazonian Dark Earths – and a history of a more productive and populated Amazon – was hidden since its discovery around 1880 until 1980, when it is possible to identify the beginning of an increase in the number of research on these soil horizons. These hundred years between the first records and the beginning of the increase in the interest around these soils witnessed structural changes both in the national arena, with the military dictatorship and a change in the place of the Amazon within internal affairs, and in the international arena with changes that reshaped the role of the environment in the political and scientific agendas and the role of Brazil in the global context.

Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences - Volume IV

Author : Willy H. Verheye
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1848262388
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences - Volume IV written by Willy H. Verheye and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia of Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences is a component of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Land is one of our most precious assets. It represents space, provides food and shelter, stores and filters water, and it is a base for urban and industrial development, road construction, leisure and many other social activities. Land is, however not unlimited in extent, and even when it is physically available its use is not necessarily free, either because of natural limitations (too cold, too steep, too wet or too dry, etc.) or because of constraints of access or land tenure. This 7-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It carries state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.

Soils in Archaeological Research

Author : Vance T. Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199882088
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Soils in Archaeological Research written by Vance T. Holliday and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary reservoirs for artifacts, they often encase entire sites. And soil-forming processes in themselves are an important component of site formation, influencing which artifacts, features, and environmental indicators (floral, faunal, and geological) will be destroyed and to what extent and which will be preserved and how well. In this book, Holliday will address each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world. The focus will be on principles of soil geomorphology , soil stratigraphy, and soil chemistry and their applications in archaeological research.

Digital Soil Mapping

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080468071
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Digital Soil Mapping written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-18 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book compiles the main ideas and methodologies that have been proposed and tested within these last fifteen years in the field of Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Begining with current experiences of soil information system developments in various regions of the world, this volume presents states of the art of different topics covered by DSM: Conception and handling of soil databases, sampling methods, new soil spatial covariates, Quantitative spatial modelling, Quality assessment and representation of DSM outputs. This book provides a solid support to students, researchers and engineers interested in modernising soil survey approaches with numerical techniques. It is also of great interest for potential soil data users. * A new concept to meet the worldwide demand for spatial soil data * The first compilation of ideas and methodologies of Digital Soil Mapping * Offers a variety of specialities: soil surveying, geostatistics, data mining, fuzzy logic, remote sensing techniques, Geographical Information Science,...* Written by 82 researchers from 13 different countries

Pasture Production in Acid Soils of the Tropics

Author : Pedro A. Sanchez
Publisher : CIAT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pasture Production in Acid Soils of the Tropics written by Pedro A. Sanchez and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1979 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics

Author : Pedro A. Sanchez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107176050
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics by : Pedro A. Sanchez

Download or read book Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics written by Pedro A. Sanchez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-awaited second edition of classic textbook, brought completely up to date, for courses on tropical soils, and reference for scientists and professionals.

Land-Use Change Impacts on Soil Processes

Author : Francis Q Brearley
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1780642105
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Land-Use Change Impacts on Soil Processes by : Francis Q Brearley

Download or read book Land-Use Change Impacts on Soil Processes written by Francis Q Brearley and published by CABI. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects that land-use changes (notably agricultural intensification, logging, soil erosion, urbanisation and mining) have on soil characteristics and processes in tropical and savannah environments. It covers a range of geographical regions and environments as impacts of land use change are often site specific. The effects of land use change on various aspects of the soil ecosystem from both a chemical and biological perspective will be examined.

The Soils of Brazil

Author : Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031199499
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Soils of Brazil written by Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive edition, in English, on the soils of Brazil, in the challenge of illustrating all the biomes of a country of truly continental dimension. In addition to presenting the first geosystemic view of Brazilian soils, in all geological, geomorphological and environmental aspects, the book also makes a key contribution to the discussion of current topics in Pedology, such as Anthrosols, Technosols, Soil Management trends and sustainability, Pedometrics and advanced techniques of digital soil mapping. The soils of Brazil were conveniently stratified into sectors and treated within the different biomes, without neglecting any area of the Brazilian territory. Considering the aspects of the landscape of occurrence, climates, geomorphology and geology, each pedological region was abundantly documented with soil profile data and many fine original, three-dimensional illustrations and diagrams, made with care by the authors. Among the regions, the most important are the forested Amazon, the Central Plateau with Cerrados, the Caatingas of the northeastern semi-arid region, the Atlantic Forest in all known variants; in addition, the Restingas, Mangroves, Oceanic Islands, Wetlands of the Pantanal and the subtropical regions of the Pampa and Matas de Araucaria. The book is of great importance as the first published work on Brazilian soils, but it is of great interest to geologists and geomorphologists who study the tropics and subtropics, due to the novelty and scope of the work.

Weathering, Soils & Paleosols

Author : I.P. Martini
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483291278
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Weathering, Soils & Paleosols by : I.P. Martini

Download or read book Weathering, Soils & Paleosols written by I.P. Martini and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 200 years, geological scientists have used the present as a key to unlocking the past. This volume continues the tradition by exploring the processes of weathering and soil formation as indicators of the present environment of the Earth's land surface. Examined are the various ways in which this information can be used to interpret past environments which have produced the soils now preserved as paleosols. Because the surface environment of the earth may now be undergoing rapid change (the greenhouse effect), the book is a timely one for those researchers looking for evidence of analogous changes in the Earth's past. The work is divided into three major sections. The first deals with fundamental considerations of weathering, clay mineralogy and diagenesis. The second deals with the formation of soils from various starting materials and in various surficial environments. And the final section is an interpretation of paleosols. This volume provides valuable reading material for graduate and senior-undergraduate courses.

Soil Processes and the Carbon Cycle

Author : Rattan Lal
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 135141576X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Soil Processes and the Carbon Cycle written by Rattan Lal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World soils contain about 1500 gigatons of organic carbon. This large carbon reserve can increase atmospheric concentrations of CO2 by soil misuse or mismanagement, or it can reverse the 'greenhouse' effect by judicious land use and proper soil management. Soil Processes and the Carbon Cycle describes soil processes and their effects on the global carbon cycle while relating soil properties to soil quality and potential and actual carbon reserves in the soil. In addition, this book deals with modeling the carbon cycle in soil, and with methods of soil carbon determinations.

Handbook of Soil Sciences

Author : Pan Ming Huang
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439803072
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Soil Sciences written by Pan Ming Huang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evolving, living organic/inorganic covering, soil is in dynamic equilibrium with the atmosphere above, the biosphere within, and the geology below. It acts as an anchor for roots, a purveyor of water and nutrients, a residence for a vast community of microorganisms and animals, a sanitizer of the environment, and a source of raw materials for construction and manufacturing. To develop lasting solutions to the challenges of balanced use and stewardship of the Earth, we require a fundamental understanding of soil—from its elastic, porous three-phase system to its components, processes, and reactions. Handbook of Soil Sciences: Resource Management and Environmental Impacts, Second Edition is the second of two volumes that form a comprehensive reference on the discipline of soil science. Completely revised and updated to reflect the current state of knowledge, this volume covers interfacial interactions between the physical, chemical, and biological regimes within the soil; the factors that control the availability of plant nutrients and microelements; interdisciplinary aspects of soil science, including salinity, sodicity, and soil erosion; and soil databases for assessing worldwide soil resources. Critical elements addressed in each section include: Descriptions of concepts and theories Definitions, approaches, methodologies, and procedures Data in tabular and figure format Extensive references This cohesive handbook provides a thorough understanding of soil science principles and practices based on a rigorous, complete, and up-to-date treatment of the subject matter compiled by leading scientists. It is a resource rich in data, offering professional soil scientists, agronomists, engineers, ecologists, biologists, naturalists, and students their first point of entry into a particular aspect of the soil sciences.

The Soil Underfoot

Author : G. Jock Churchman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466571578
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book The Soil Underfoot written by G. Jock Churchman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest part of the world's food comes from its soils, either directly from plants, or via animals fed on pastures and crops. Thus, it is necessary to maintain, and if possible, improve the quality-and hence good health-of soils, while enabling them to support the growing world population. The Soil Underfoot: Infinite Possibilities for a Finite

Amazon Soils

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Amazon Soils written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: