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  • Soil Formation and Weathering in Time and Space
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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the authors for their contributions to this Special Issue and the referees for their precious work during the review process. We are indebted to Zhihong Xu (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Soils and Sediments) and Moira Ledger (Editorial Manager) for their collaboration and help with the editing of these papers.

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  1. Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra (DiBEST), Università della Calabria, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy

    Fabio Scarciglia

  2. Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Markus Egli

  3. Chairgroup of Soil Geography and Landscape, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Arnaud Temme

  4. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80303, USA

    Arnaud Temme

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Scarciglia, F., Egli, M. & Temme, A. Preface. J Soils Sediments 15, 1275–1277 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-015-1079-5

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