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Role of Arthropods in Maintaining Soil Fertility

Agriculture, 2013
In terms of species richness, arthropods may represent as much as 85% of the soil fauna. They comprise a large proportion of the meso- and macrofauna of the soil.
Thomas W. Culliney
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Recognizing the Importance of an Urban Soil in an Open-Air City Museum: An Opportunity in the City of Madrid, Spain

Land, 2022
This article examines the presence of urban soil buried under anthropogenic debris in an air-museum park in the Madrid city center (Spain), and highlights the particularities of this singular urbanized setting to indicate ecological evaluation options ...
Raimundo Jiménez-Ballesta, Isabel S. De Soto-García, Francisco Jesús García-Navarro, Rosario García-Giménez   +3 more
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VNIR-SWIR Spectroscopy, XRD and Traditional Analyses for Pedomorphogeological Assessment in a Tropical Toposequence

AgriEngineering, 2023
Tropical climate conditions favor landscape evolution and the formation of highly weathered soils under different pedogenic processes due to certain differential properties.
Jean J. Novais, Raúl R. Poppiel, Marilusa P. C. Lacerda, José A. M. Demattê   +3 more
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Micromorfologia e gênese de luvissolos e planossolos desenvolvidos de rochas metamórficas no semi-árido brasileiro Micromorphology and genesis of luvisols and planosols developed from metamorphic rocks in the Brazilian semiarid region

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2008
Apesar da ocorrência comum de Luvissolos e Planossolos nas áreas de rochas do Pré-Cambriano na região semi-árida do Brasil, há poucas informações disponíveis sobre a micromorfologia e a gênese desses solos.
Lindomário Barros de Oliveira, Maurício Paulo Ferreira Fontes, Mateus Rosas Ribeiro, João Carlos Ker   +3 more
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Estudo da relação pedomorfogeológica na distribuição de solos com horizontes B textural e B nítico na paisagem de Lavras (MG) Study of the relationship pedo-geomorphological in the soil distribution with argillic horizons in the landscape of Lavras (MG), Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2008
O entendimento das relações entre geologia, geomorfologia e pedologia auxilia nas atividades de classificação dos solos e na avaliação da distribuição pedológica de uma área. Este trabalho foi motivado pela escassez de estudos dessa natureza na região de
Marilusa Pinto Coelho Lacerda, Jean Joel Gabriel Queménéur, Hélcio Andrade, Helena Maria Ramos Alves, Tatiana Grossi Chquillof Vieira   +4 more
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Structural composition of organic matter in particle-size fractions of soils along a climo-biosequence in the main range of Peninsular Malaysia

Open Geosciences, 2016
Information on structural composition of organic matter (OM) in particle-size fractions of soils along a climo-biosequence is sparse. The objective of this study was to examine structural composition and morphological characteristics of OM in particle ...
Jafarzadeh-Haghighi Amir Hossein, Shamshuddin Jusop, Hamdan Jol, Zainuddin Norhazlin   +3 more
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Magnetoclimatological Record of Late Pleistocene Loess in the Southern Hunshandake Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia: A Threshold Response to the East Asian Summer Monsoon Variations

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023
We report the first complete loess–paleosol record spanning the last 130 kyr from the southern extremity of the Hunshandake Sandy Land (HSL) in central‐eastern Mongolia.
Mei Sheng, Kai Jiang, Xisheng Wang, Zhaoxia Jiang, Ling Tang, Zaizheng Zhou   +5 more
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Organic carbon and microbiome in tundra and forest–tundra permafrost soils, southern Yamal, Russia

Polar Research, 2021
Permafrost soils differ significantly from other soils because they serve as a huge reservoir for organic carbon accumulated during the Quaternary Period, which is at risk of being released as the Arctic warms.
Ivan Alekseev, Aleksei Zverev, Evgeny Abakumov   +2 more
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Termite Ecology in the First Two Decades of the 21st Century: A Review of Reviews

Insects, 2019
Termite ecology came of age in 1978 with the seminal review of Wood and Sands which by considering the quantitative contributions made by termites to the carbon cycle at the landscape level concluded that they were major players in tropical ecosystems ...
David E. Bignell
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Relações solo-paisagem em uma litosseqüência arenito-basalto na região de Pereira Barreto, SP Soil-landscape relationships in a sandstone-basalt lithosequence in Pereira Barreto, São Paulo

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2007
Os objetivos deste trabalho foram estudar as relações solo-paisagem em uma litosseqüência de transição arenito-basalto e verificar a similaridade dos limites de superfícies geomórficas mapeados no campo com os limites mapeados a partir de técnicas ...
Milton César Costa Campos, José Marques Júnior, Gener Tadeu Pereira, Rafael Montanari, Livia Arantes Camargo   +4 more
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