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Historical Perspective of Soil Research in Turkey

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The Soils of Turkey

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Soils have always attracted and continued to attract the attention of people, due to their essential functions in food and fiber production. The use of terraces to control erosion attempts to increase the fertility of soils and create higher yielding soils are the indications for such attempts performed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. The efforts during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods were responsible for the significant contributions to the knowledge of soils. However, soil science became a branch of science on its own by the works of Vasili V. Dokuchaev in the nineteenth century (Brevik 2005).

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Günal, H., Haktanır, K., Kapur, S. (2018). Historical Perspective of Soil Research in Turkey. In: Kapur, S., Akça, E., Günal, H. (eds) The Soils of Turkey. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64392-2_1

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