Hydropedology

Synergistic Integration of Soil Science and Hydrology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Hydropedology is a microcosm for what is happening in Soil Science. Once a staid discipline found in schools of agriculture devoted to increasing crop yield, soil science is transforming itself into an interdisciplinary mulch with great significance not only for food production but also climate change, ecology, preservation of natural resources, forestry, and carbon sequestration. Hydropedology brings together pedology (soil characteristics) with hydrology (movement of water) to understand and achieve the goals now associated with modern soil science.

The first book of its kind in the market
Highly interdisciplinary, involving new thinking and synergistic approaches
Stimulating case studies demonstrate the need for hydropedology in various practical applications
Future directions and new approaches are present to advance this emerging interdisciplinary science

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 40 mm
Vikt:1 520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:858
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780123869418

Utforska kategorier

Geovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Hydrologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Ph.D. in Soil Science

Recensioner i media

"...numerous chapters evaluate the necessity of coupling hydropedology with other related interdisciplinary sciences, such as biogeochemistry and ecohydrology, and discuss technical advances, such as geophysical techniques and digital soil mapping…Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." --CHOICE April 2013

Innehållsförteckning

Part I Overviews and Fundamentals1. Hydropedology: Addressing Fundamentals and Building Bridges to Understand Complex Pedologic and Hydrologic Interactions2. Understanding Soil Architecture and Its Functional Manifestation across Scales3. Preferential Flow in a Pedological Perspective4. Preferential Flow Dynamics and Plant Rooting Systems5. Redoximorphic Features as Related to Soil Hydrology and Hydric Soils6. Subaqueous Soils: Pedogenesis, Mapping, and Applications7. Quantifying Processes Governing Soil-Mantled Hillslope Evolution8. Thermodynamic Limits of the Critical Zone and their Relevance to HydropedologyPart II Case Studies and Applications9. Hydropedology in Caliche Soils Weathered from Glen Rose Limestone of Lower Cretaceous Age in Texas10. Hydropedology in Seasonally Dry Landscapes: The Palouse Region of the Pacific Northwest USA11. Hydropedology of the North American Coastal Temperate Rainforest12. Hydropedology in the Ridge and Valley: Soil Moisture Patterns and Preferential Flow Dynamics in Two Contrasting Landscapes13. Geophysical Investigations of Soil–Landscape Architecture and Its Impacts on Subsurface Flow14. Hydropedology, Geomorphology, and Groundwater Processes in Land Degradation: Case Studies in South West Victoria, Australia15. Hydropedology as a Powerful Tool for Environmental Policy and Regulations: Toward Sustainable Land Use, Management and PlanningPart III Advances in Modeling, Mapping, and Coupling16. Soil Information in Hydrologic Models: Hard Data, Soft Data, and the Dialog between Experimentalists and Modelers17. Hydrological Classifications of Soils and their Use in Hydrological Modeling18. Subsurface Flow Networks at the Hillslope Scale: Detection and Modeling19. Hydrologic Information in Pedologic Models20. Modeling and Mapping Soil Spatial and Temporal Variability21. Digital Soil Mapping: Interactions with and Applications for Hydropedology22. Coupling Biogeochemistry and Hydropedology to Advance Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Science23. Coupling Ecohydrology and Hydropedology at Different Spatio-Temporal Scales in Water-Limited Ecosystems24. Hydropedology: Summary and Outlook