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Across the world, soils are managed with an intensity and at a geographic scale never before attempted, yet we know remarkably little about how and why managed soils change through time. Understanding Soil Change explores a legacy of soil change in south-eastern North America, a region of global ecologic, agricultural and forestry significance: from the acidic soils of primary hardwood forests that covered the region until about 1800, through the marked transformations affected by long-cultivated cotton, to contemporary soils of rapidly growing and intensively managed pine forests. These well-documented records significantly enrich the science of ecology and pedology, and provide valuable lessons for land management throughout the world. The book calls for the establishment of a global network of soil-ecosystem studies, like the invaluable Calhoun study on which the book is based, to provide further information on sustainable land management, vital as human demands on soil continue to increase.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Earth sciences Geology & the lithosphere

• Full title: Understanding Soil Change
• Subtitle: Soil Sustainability over Millennia, Centuries, and Decades
• Author: Daniel D. Richter, JrDaniel MarkewitzWilliam A. ReinersPedro Sánchez
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780521039437
• ISBN: 0521039436
• ID: 02019727
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 391 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 155 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. August 2007

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