1 Institute for Environmental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * now at: Soil Geography/Pedology, Department of Geography, University of Cologne, Germany Received: 26 February 2008 – Accepted: 26 February 2008 – Published: 4 April 2008 Correspondence to: L. Duester ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences U...

Pedology and Precision Agriculture Laboratories, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 979, Ave de Bourgogne, SteFoy, Quebec, Canada G1W 2L4 (e-mail: [email protected]); Potato Research Centre, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, 850, Lincoln Road, PO Box 20280, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 4Z7; and Institute of Research and Development in Agri-Environment, 2700 Einstein St., Quebec, Queb...

Agricultural terraces are the most widespread archaeological landforms worldwide. Despite their far-reaching prevalence in many inhabited parts of world, soils (hereafter ‘terrace soils’) scarcely studied and nature is poorly defined. This study aims to depict a space–time framework for development calcareous stone-wall bench suggest modifications soil classification mapping. To do so, we exami...

Michela Marignani a,b,c,∗, Duccio Rocchini a,b, Dino Torri c, Alessandro Chiarucci a,b, Simona Maccherini a,b a Department of Environmental Sciences “G. Sarfatti”, University of Siena, via P.A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy b Terradata srl Environmetrics, Department of Environmental Sciences “G. Sarfatti”, University of Siena, via P.A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy c CNR-IRPI Applied Pedology...

Taxonomic categories of the highest level (e.g. the RSG of the World Reference Base for soil resources) are not adequate when dealing with trace element concentrations in soils. This does not however mean that pedology, its basic concepts and knowledge accumulated over more than a century, are of no use in this domain. Examples of the role of soil forming processes on trace element contents in ...