The Soils of the USA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soils of the USA write by L.T. West. This book was released on 2016-09-19. The Soils of the USA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, and its Caribbean territories. It discusses the history of soil surveys and pedological research in the U.S., and offers general descriptions of the country’s climate, geology and geomorphology. For each Land Resource Region (LRR) – a geographic/ecological region of the country characterized by its own climate, geology, landscapes, soils, and agricultural practices – there is a chapter with details of the climate, geology, geomorphology, pre-settlement and current vegetation, and land use, as well as the distribution and properties of major soils including their genesis, classification, and management challenges. The final chapters address topics such as soils and humans, and the future challenges for soil science and soil surveys in the U.S. Maps of soil distribution, pedon descriptions, profile images, and tables of properties are included throughout the text.
Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions
Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions write by Richard V. Pouyat. This book was released on 2020-09-02. Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, and explores directions that positively affect the future of forest and rangeland soil health. This book outlines soil processes and identifies the research needed to manage forest and rangeland soils in the United States. Chapters give an overview of the state of forest and rangeland soils research in the Nation, including multi-decadal programs (chapter 1), then summarizes various human-caused and natural impacts and their effects on soil carbon, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and biological diversity (chapters 2–5). Other chapters look at the effects of changing conditions on forest soils in wetland and urban settings (chapters 6–7). Impacts include: climate change, severe wildfires, invasive species, pests and diseases, pollution, and land use change. Chapter 8 considers approaches to maintaining or regaining forest and rangeland soil health in the face of these varied impacts. Mapping, monitoring, and data sharing are discussed in chapter 9 as ways to leverage scientific and human resources to address soil health at scales from the landscape to the individual parcel (monitoring networks, data sharing Web sites, and educational soils-centered programs are tabulated in appendix B). Chapter 10 highlights opportunities for deepening our understanding of soils and for sustaining long-term ecosystem health and appendix C summarizes research needs. Nine regional summaries (appendix A) offer a more detailed look at forest and rangeland soils in the United States and its Affiliates.
Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey
Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey write by Douglas Helms. This book was released on 2008-04-15. Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey offers a broad-ranging collection of essays chronicling the development of the U.S. Soil Survey and its influence on the history of soil survey as a scientific discipline that focuses on mapping, analysis, and description of soils. Appraises the influences of key individuals and institutions on the establishment of federal support for and coordination of U.S. soil surveys. Provides an account of life in the field, detailing experience shared by many soil scientists and survey processionals. Reviews the opening of careers in soil survey to women and African-Americans. Relates aspects of the utility of the soil survey to other federal services, to other fields of research, and to land-use planning. Discusses the future of the U.S. Soil Survey and the new directions both the survey and its uses will take. Soil scientists and other soil survey professionals will find this collection valuable both for the new research it provides and for the memories it preserves of life and work in the field and laboratory. Historians will increasingly turn their attention to this crucial earth science as the intriguing connections between soils, the environment, and human history become more apparent. Teachers, students, and agriculturalists will also appreciate this detailed account of the Soil Survey.
Glossary of Soil Science Terms 2008
Glossary of Soil Science Terms 2008 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glossary of Soil Science Terms 2008 write by Soil Science Society of America. This book was released on 2008. Glossary of Soil Science Terms 2008 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than 1800 terms are included in this revised glossary. Subject matter includes soil physics, soil chemistry, soil biology and biochemistry, pedology, soil and water management and conservation, forest and range soils, nutrient management and soil and plant analysis, mineralogy, wetland soils, and soils and environmental quality. Two appendices on tabular information and designations for soil horizons and layers also are included.
Established and Tentative Soil Series of the United States
Established and Tentative Soil Series of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Established and Tentative Soil Series of the United States write by United States. Soil Conservation Service. This book was released on 1961. Established and Tentative Soil Series of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
