Résumé
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 southeastern 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.
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Concerns about soil in the modern world
- 2. Managing soils for productivity and environmental quality
- 3. Biogeochemical sciences in support of soil management
- 4. The science of estimating soil change
- 5. Soil change over millennia, centuries, and decades
- 6. The Calhoun forest: a window to understanding soil change
- 6. Long-term pedogenesis
- 7. Soil development from the Devonian to Mendocino and Hawaii
- 8. Genesis of advanced weathering-stage soils at Calhoun ecosystems
- 9. The Calhoun soil profile
- 10. The forest's biogeochemical attack on soil minerals
- 11. Agricultural beginnings: Native American cultivation
- 12. Soil biogeochemistry in cotton fields of the Old South
- 13. Agricultural legacies in old-field soils
- Conversion of Agricultural Fields to Secondary Forests: 14. The birth of a New Forest
- 15. Accumulation and rapid turnover of soil carbon in a re-establishing forest
- 16. Satisfying a forest's four-decade nitrogen requirement
- 17. Soil's re-acidification and circulation of nutrient cations
- 18. Changes in soil phosphorus fractions in a re-establishing forest
- 19. The case for soil-ecosystem experiments
- Epilogue
- Recommended readings
- Appendix I. Carbonic acid weathering reactions 248
- Appendix II. Simulations of bomb-produced 14C in forest floor
- Appendix III. Generalized ANOVA for the Calhoun experiment
- Appendix IV. Total chemical elements in Calhoun soil profiles
- References
- Index.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Cambridge University Press |
| Auteur(s) | Daniel D., Jr Richter, Daniel Markewitz |
| Parution | 01/05/2001 |
| Nb. de pages | 255 |
| Format | 15,5 x 23,5 |
| Couverture | Relié |
| Poids | 579g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780521771719 |
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