Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed terra pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Woods, William I. (Editor ), Teixeira, Wenceslau G. (Editor ), Lehmann, Johannes (Editor ), Steiner, Christoph (Editor ), WinklerPrins, Antoinette M. G. A. (Editor ), Rebellato, Lilian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Temas:
Soil science.
Agriculture.
Environment.
Environmental management.
Landscape ecology.
Life sciences.
Soil Science.
Environmental Sciences.
Environmental Management.
Landscape Ecology.
Life Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Amazonian Dark Earths: The First Century of Reports
  • Pre-Columbian Settlement Dynamics in the Central Amazon
  • Steps Towards an Ecology of Landscape: The Pedo-Stratigraphy of Anthropogenic Dark Earths
  • Phytoliths and Terra Preta: The Hatahara Site Example
  • Anthropogenic Dark Earths of the Central Amazon Region: Remarks on Their Evolution and Polygenetic Composition
  • An Assessment of the Cultural Practices Behind the Formation (or Not) of Amazonian Dark Earths in Marajo Island Archaeological Sites
  • Kayapó Savanna Management: Fire, Soils, and Forest Islands in a Threatened Biome
  • Amerindian Anthrosols: Amazonian Dark Earth Formation in the Upper Xingu
  • Indigenous Knowledge About Terra Preta Formation
  • Sweep and Char and the Creation of Amazonian Dark Earths in Homegardens
  • Pedology, Fertility, and Biology of Central Amazonian Dark Earths
  • Historical Ecology and Dark Earths in Whitewater and Blackwater Landscapes: Comparing the Middle Madeira and Lower Negro Rivers
  • Amazonian Dark Earths in Africa?
  • Locating Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) Using Satellite Remote Sensing - A Possible Approach
  • The Microbial World of Terra Preta
  • Microbial Response to Charcoal Amendments and Fertilization of a Highly Weathered Tropical Soil
  • Effects of Charcoal as Slow Release Nutrient Carrier on N-P-K Dynamics and Soil Microbial Population: Pot Experiments with Ferralsol Substrate
  • Terra Preta Nova: The Dream of Wim Sombroek
  • Microbial Population and Biodiversity in Amazonian Dark Earth Soils
  • Spectroscopy Characterization of Humic Acids Isolated from Amazonian Dark Earth Soils (Terra Preta De Índio)
  • Solid-State 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Characterisation of Humic Acids Extracted from Amazonian Dark Earths (Terra Preta De Índio)
  • Opening the Black Box: Deciphering Carbon and Nutrient Flows in Terra Preta
  • Charcoal Making in the Brazilian Amazon: Economic Aspects of Production and Carbon Conversion Efficiencies of Kilns
  • The Effect of Charcoal in Banana (Musa Sp.) Planting Holes - An On-Farm Study in Central Amazonia, Brazil
  • Characterization of Char for Agricultural Use in the Soils of the Southeastern United States
  • Black Carbon (Biochar) in Rice-Based Systems: Characteristics and Opportunities
  • City to Soil: Returning Organics to Agriculture - A Circle of Sustainability
  • Terra Preta Nova - Where to from Here?.

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