Abstract
On the 3000 mile flight from New York to San Francisco the plane traverses a landscape of gigantic proportions. The rugged mountains, smooth hills, rolling plains, broad valleys, rivers, and lakes are ecosystems with wide variations in climate, bodies of water, soils, vegetation, animal life, and human activities. This book brings into focus the soil resource, its creation by nature, its variation over continents, and its husbandry by man.
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Jenny, H. (1980). Ecosystems and Soils. In: The Soil Resource. Ecological Studies, vol 37. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6112-4_1
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