Soil and Culture

SOIL beneath our feet food and fiber ashes to ashes, dust to dust dirt Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and placeporous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit,...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Landa, Edward R. (Editor), Feller, Christian. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
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