Overview
- Offers a comprehensive description of forest and range soils and their roles in maintaining ecosystems
- Provides a baseline for soil health by synthesizing the most recent research on soil properties and processes
- Summarizes the current state of knowledge related to the effects of historical and on-going disturbances
- Highlights technologies, networks, and outreach programs central to future research on monitoring and management of the nation’s soil
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This open access book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, and explores directions that positively affect the future of forest and rangeland soil health. This book outlines soil processes and identifies the research needed to manage forest and rangeland soils in the United States. Chapters give an overview of the state of forest and rangeland soils research in the Nation, including multi-decadal programs (chapter 1), then summarizes various human-caused and natural impacts and their effects on soil carbon, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and biological diversity (chapters 2–5). Other chapters look at the effects of changing conditions on forest soils in wetland and urban settings (chapters 6–7). Impacts include: climate change, severe wildfires, invasive species, pests and diseases, pollution, and land use change. Chapter 8considers approaches to maintaining or regaining forest and rangeland soil health in the face of these varied impacts. Mapping, monitoring, and data sharing are discussed in chapter 9 as ways to leverage scientific and human resources to address soil health at scales from the landscape to the individual parcel (monitoring networks, data sharing Web sites, and educational soils-centered programs are tabulated in appendix B). Chapter 10 highlights opportunities for deepening our understanding of soils and for sustaining long-term ecosystem health and appendix C summarizes research needs. Nine regional summaries (appendix A) offer a more detailed look at forest and rangeland soils in the United States and its Affiliates.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Deborah Page-Dumroese is a research soil scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. She conducts research on harvest impacts on long-term soil productivity, creating and deploying biochar made from non-merchantable woody biomass, and the effects of land management on belowground processes.
Richard Pouyat is an emeritus scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Northern Research Station and was the Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Program Leader for Bioclimatology. Rich is a leading U.S. expert on urban soils and biogeochemical cycles.
Toral Patel-Weynand is the Director of Sustainable Forest Management Research for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. She co-wrote the first-ever scientific assessment on agroforestry as a mechanism for improving the resiliency and productivity of farm and ranch lands. Among other publications she helped produce an assessment of nontimber forest products and the National Climate Assessment.
Linda Geiser is the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service National Air Program Manager. Linda conducts research in ecology, air pollution deposition and effects, biological monitoring, and lichenology. She is also involved with the Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions
Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis
Editors: Richard V. Pouyat, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Toral Patel-Weynand, Linda H. Geiser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45216-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45215-5Published: 03 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45218-6Published: 03 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45216-2Published: 02 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 289
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecosystems, Agriculture, Earth System Sciences, Earth Sciences, general