{"product_id":"understanding-soil-change-soil-sustainability-over-millennia-centuries-and-decades-paperback-9780521039437","title":"Understanding Soil Change; Soil Sustainability over Millennia, Centuries, and Decades (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521039437","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnderstanding Soil Change\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSoil Sustainability over Millennia, Centuries, and Decades\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn important synthesis of a long-term study in the USA which provides lessons for land management throughout the world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel D. Richter, Jr (Author), Daniel Markewitz (Author), William A. Reiners (Foreword by), Pedro Sánchez (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521039437, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 August 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 73 b\/w illus.  33 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm, 0.391 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a worthy addition to any private or library collection.' Restoration Ecology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcross 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Foreword William A. Reiners and Pedro A. Sánchez\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Soil and Sustainability: 1. Concerns about soil in the modern world\u003cbr\u003e 2. Managing soils for productivity and environmental quality\u003cbr\u003e 3. Biogeochemical sciences in support of soil management\u003cbr\u003e 4. The science of estimating soil change\u003cbr\u003e 5. Soil change over millennia, centuries and decades\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Calhoun forest: a window to understanding soil change\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Soil Change over Time Scales of Millennia: Long-Term Pedogenesis\u003cbr\u003e 7. Soil development from the Devonian to Mendocino and Hawaii\u003cbr\u003e 8. Genesis of advanced weathering-stage soils at the Calhoun ecosystem\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Calhoun soil profile\u003cbr\u003e 10. The forest's biogeochemical attack on soil minerals\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Soil Change over Time Scales of Centuries: Conversion of Primary Forests to Agricultural Fields: 11. Agricultural beginnings: Native American cultivation\u003cbr\u003e 12. Soil biogeochemistry in cotton fields of the Old South\u003cbr\u003e 13. Agricultural legacies in old-field soils\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Soil Change over Time Scales of Decades: Conversion of Agricultural Fields to Secondary Forests: 14. The birth of a new forest\u003cbr\u003e 15. Accumulation and rapid turnover of soil carbon in a re-establishing forest\u003cbr\u003e 16. Satisfying a forest's four-decade nitrogen demand\u003cbr\u003e 17. Soil re-acidification and circulation of nutrient cations\u003cbr\u003e 18. Changes in soil-phosphorus fractions in a re-establishing forest\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Soil Change and the Future: 19. The case for long-term soil-ecosystem experiments\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Recommended readings\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I. Carbonic acid weathering reactions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II. Simulation of bomb-produced 14C in the forest floor at the Calhoun Experimental Forest, SC\u003cbr\u003e Appendix III. Sources of variation in the Calhoun Experimental Forest's main analysis of variance (ANOVA)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix IV. Total elemental concentrations for soils from the Calhoun Experimental Forest, SC\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Environmental science, engineering \u0026amp; technology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Environmental science, engineering \u0026amp; technology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Environmental%20science,%20engineering%20\u0026amp;%20technology%20%5BTQ%5D%22\"\u003eTQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Soil science, sedimentology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Soil science, sedimentology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Soil%20science,%20sedimentology%20%5BRBGB%5D%22\"\u003eRBGB\u003c\/a\u003e], Ecological science, the Biosphere [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ecological science, the Biosphere\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ecological%20science,%20the%20Biosphere%20%5BPSAF%5D%22\"\u003ePSAF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006251290904,"sku":"9780521039437","price":40.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521771719_7964d793-efd5-495c-be6d-4d89e0895db8.jpg?v=1694968514","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/understanding-soil-change-soil-sustainability-over-millennia-centuries-and-decades-paperback-9780521039437","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}