Garry Willgoose

Principles of Soilscape and Landscape Evolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a holistic guide to the construction of numerical models to explain the co-evolution of landforms, soils, vegetation and tectonics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 951g
• ISBN-13: 9780521858793
• ISBN-10: 0521858798
• Artikelnr.: 48811501

Autorenporträt

Garry Willgoose is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. His research focuses on understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of drivers of hydrology and erosion including landforms, soils, vegetation, soil moisture and fire. He developed the internationally utilised SIBERIA landscape evolution model, for which he was awarded the Lorenz Straub Award. He later customised SIBERIA to examine the long-term sustainability of rehabilitated mine sites, and developed further models for co-evolving hydrology, vegetation and soil for these sites.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Constructing a landscape evolution model - basic concepts
3. A brief hydrology and geomorphology primer
4. Erosion and other water driven processes
5. Soils: constructing a soilscape evolution model - basic concepts
6. Soils: soil depth
7. Soils: physical weathering and soil particle fragmentation
8. Soils: chemical weathering
9. Soils: slow soil flow and creep
10. Soils: colloids and soil organic carbon
11. Soils: constructing a soilscape evolution model - details and examples
12. Tectonics and geology
13. High slope gravity processes
14. Vegetation and wildfire
15. Constructing a landscape evolution model - details
16. Examples of landscape evolution modelling and final thoughts
References
Index.