SOILS: BASIC CONCEPTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

This book was born as an international tribute to Fiorenzo C. Ugolini, an outstanding scientist who recently retired from university teaching and research. It is a fully up-to-date synthesis of the present knowledge of soils, their genesis, functions and management. It includes contributions from leading scientists and the result is a ...

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Tailor-made | – World Information

Web-based digital maps help policymakers and scientists to find the data they need for their models or decisions in fields such as land management and biodiversity conservation. The EU's Institute for Environment and Sustainability in Ispra, Italy, is the focal point for information at the level.

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Digital Map of the World |

Digital information is likely to be welcomed by such groups. For example, GSM will focus on providing inputs (e.g., texture, organic carbon, and -depth parameters) to -Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer models that are used to predict land-cover changes in response to anticipated climatic and human disturbances across the globe.

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Progress in erosion research: A perspective

We start by noting that erosion research is firmly rooted in geomorphology, in contrast to the mainly agronomic foundations of North American erosion research. , the importance of field-based surveys of erosion has been emphasized by the findings of a few regional-scale, long-term monitoring exercises, most recently that ...

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Author Guidelines – Journal of – Wiley …

The Journal of (EJSS) is an international journal that publishes outstanding papers in that advance the theoretical and mechanistic understanding of physical, chemical and biological processes and their interactions in soils acting from molecular to continental scales in natural and managed environments, as ...

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