Sandy Soils
Sandy Soils
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Description
Sandy soils cover approximately 900 million ha worldwide, and there are extensive areas of sandy soils under cultivation. This book focuses on novel and exciting aspects of research on sandy soils which is presented into three sections: Distributionand Assessment, Soil Carbon and Soil Health, and Water and the Environment.
Alfred Hartemink is professor of soil science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He was trained in pedology and soil fertility, and his research focuses on novel ways to explore the soil profile, and the management of soil carbon in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Before his current position, he was for 12 years at ISRIC-World Soil Information in the Netherlands and between 1987 and 1999, he worked at research institutes and universities in Tanzania, Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. Alfred has written several books.
Jingyi Huang is an professor in the Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is internationally recognized for developing sensor-model integration frameworks to characterize the spatial and temporal variations of soil from the field to global scales and model soil-plant-atmospheric interactions under climate change and human disturbance. Jingyi is an Early Career Fellow of the Soil Science Society ofAmerica (SSSA) and provides leadership for several soil committees in SSSA, American Society of Agronomy, and American Geophysical Union. He serves as an associate editor for Geoderma and Soil Science Society of America Journal.