Ecology and management of forest soils /

• Other Authors: Fisher, Richard F., Binkley, Dan
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Edition: 4th ed.
• Subjects: Forest soils.; Soil ecology.; Soil management.; Forest management.; Electronic books.

Forest soils are the foundation of the entire forest ecosystem and complex, long-term interactions between trees, soil animals, and the microbial community shape soils in was that are very distinct from agricultural soils. The composition, structure, and processes in forest soils at any given time r...

Table of Contents:

• 1. History of forest soil science and management
• 2. Global patterns in forest soils
• 3. Soil formation and minerals
• 4. Soil organic matter
• 5. Water, pore space, and soil structure
• 6. Life in forest soils
• 7. Forest biogeochemistry
• 8. Chemistry of soil surfaces and solutions
• 9. Sampling soils across space and time
• 10. Common approaches to measuring soils
• 11. Influence of tree species
• 12. Soil management
• harvesting, site preparation, conversion, and drainage
• 13. Fire influences
• 14. Nutrition management
• 15. Managing forest soils for carbon sequestration
• 16. Evidence-based approaches.