Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Woods, William I. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Teixeira, Wenceslau G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Lehmann, Johannes (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Steiner, Christoph (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), WinklerPrins, Antoinette (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rebellato, Lilian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Landscape ecology.; Climate change.; Environmental management.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Soil Science & Conservation.; Climate Change.; Environmental Management.; Landscape Ecology.; Life Sciences, general.

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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