Earl B. Alexander

Soils in Natural Landscapes (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

While many references exist on agricultural perspectives of soils, there is a need for a basic soils book for those concerned with natural landscapes and ecosystems. Soils in Natural Landscapes fills this niche, providing a thorough introduction to the physics, chemistry, and biology of soils and their roles in local to global systems. It covers the structure, function, and classification of soils as well as soil organisms, global issues, and land management. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it provides practical insights for the evaluation of soils in natural environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466594364
• Artikelnr.: 40345260

Autorenporträt

Earl B. Alexander is a retired pedologist, if you can call writing books (first author of Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America) and professional papers retirement. He has a Ph.D. in soils and has worked for the Soil Conservation Service (now NRCS), the California (now Pacific Southwest) Forest and Range Experiment Station, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the University of Nevada, and three regions of the U.S. Forest Service. He has mapped and investigated soils in Ohio, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nevada, California, Oregon, Alaska, and other states and provinces in western North America. He has developed interpretations for evaluating soil conditions and expected soil behaviours and made and reviewed recommendations for land management. More than 75 of his papers have been published in professional journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Soils, Landscapes and Ecosystems. Soil Parent Material, Weathering, and
Primary Particles. Soil Architecture-Structural Units and Horizons. Heat
and Soil Temperature. Soil Water, Air, and Climate. Soil
Classification-Kinds of Soils. Soils in Landscapes. Primary Production and
Plant Nutrition. Soil Organisms: Life in Soils. Soil Organic Matter. Soils
and Global Processes. Land Management and Soil Quality. Glossary.
References. Appendices.