Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Woods, William I. (Editor), Teixeira, Wenceslau G. (Editor), Lehmann, Johannes (Editor), Steiner, Christoph (Editor), WinklerPrins, Antoinette (Editor), Rebellato, Lilian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: 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...