Five centuries of soil evolution after coastal wetland reclamation

ISBN-13: 9783659699337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 108 str.

Cui Jun;Fang Changming

Opis

Soil evolution has been tradtionally investigated under natural conditions. The anthropogenic soil chronosequences in the coastal areas of China, which resulted from cultivation of soils derived from coastal wetland reclamation over hundreds to thousands of years, provide precious opportunities to study soil evolution under intensive human disturbances. This book presents a case study that integrated the physical, chemical and microbiological aspects of soil evolution during 500 years of cultivation using an anthropogenic soil chronosequence on the Chongming Island, China. This study should progress our understanding of long-term soil dynamics in a human-dominated world today.

O autorze

Jun Cui, Ph.D. in Ecology. Study field: Soil biogeochemistry. Current position: Research fellow in the Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils, Yancheng, China P.R. Changming Fang, Ph.D.in Ecology and professor at Fudan University, China P.R. Study field: global change ecology.