Soil Distribution and Classification

Gómez-Miguel, Vicente D.; Badía, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20541-0_2

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“…Soil Survey Staff, ) was sampled from the northern slopes of the Castejón Mountains at 490 masl (UTM 30T X661982, Y4646188). It is one of the most common soil subgroups in the Ebro Tertiary Basin (Gómez‐Miguel & Badía, ). The soil parent material consists of decimetre‐thick gyprock layers alternating with red and grey marls (calcilutites) and occasional limestones, all of which are from the middle Miocene.…”

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At What Depth Are The Properties of a Gypseous Forest Topsoil Affected By Burning?

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Wildfires represent one of the main factors of land degradation in Mediterranean environments having negative effects to several ecosystem services. In this work, the fire‐induced changes associated with depth (O horizon and Ah at 0–1, 1–2 and 2–3 cm depths) were studied in a gypseous soil under Aleppo pine forest. Topsoil monoliths were burned in an outdoor combustion tunnel simulating a fire of moderate intensity. In the O horizon, burning caused an immediate and significant decrease in water repellency (WR), total organic carbon (TOC) and pyrolyzed carbon (PyC) and an increase in total inorganic carbon. The Ah horizon was also significantly affected by fire, but mainly in its first shallower centimetre and with a different direction according to soil properties: TOC, gypsum, WR and PyC decreased, whereas soil aggregate stability and pH increased. Soil burning not only involved the loss of the pre‐fire organic matter content of the O horizon and the upper centimetre of the Ah horizon but also decreased their relative abundance of markers of resins, lignin and polysaccharides. Moreover, the soil burning exerted the cracking of alkylic long‐chain molecular series, some of them until the 2 cm Ah depth. The reduction of organic lipophilic molecules in the upper soil centimetre may be related to the fire‐induced decreases in WR. Moderate burning of the studied gypseous ochric horizon does not modify any of the properties studied at depths greater than 2 cm. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The cryptic use of the prefix "haplo" and the non-application of a reaction class in the Inceptisols could be considered a deficit with respect to the denomination by WRB, especially for the relationship that this property has with the vegetation cover it supports. Both the Cryepts and the Cryorthents, with whom it is associated, each supposes 1% of the surface of Spain (Gómez-Miguel and Badía, 2016). The short formation time of these soils, although under a climate favourable to evolution, fits them in Entisols and Inceptisols; next, the use of climate, or more precisely moisture and temperature regimes, acquires great importance in its classification.…”

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Soil-geomorphology relationships determine the distribution of the main subalpine grasslands in the Central Pyrenees (NE-Spain)

Badía

Buendía-García

Longares-Aladrén

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…The soil was manually treated to remove gravel and passed through a 2 mm sieve. The soil is sandy loam, alkaline, calcareous, high in organic matter, and classified as Calcaric Cambisol [12]. The organic materials (QW, QFL, QFH) were added to the soil at 1 g organic material/100 g soil, soil without addition of organic materials was used as a control (CTRL).…”

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Chemical transformation of Quercus wood by Cetonia larvae (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae): An improvement of carbon and nitrogen available in saproxylic environments

Sánchez

Micó

Galante

et al. 2017

European Journal of Soil Biology

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Forests make up the major percentage of terrestrial ecosystems and woody debris is recognised as an important long-term pool of forest carbon [29]. Despite being key to forest productivity, the understanding of how saproxylic organisms affect wood chemistry and organic matter stability during wood decomposition is still limited (see Refs. [47,50]. Among saproxylic insects, beetles make up the biggest part of saproxylic diversity and are primarily responsible for the mechanical breakdown of woody material [4], both directly, by tunnelling and feeding, and indirectly, through symbiotic relationships with fungi and other microorganisms that humify wood [45]. Many studies have shown increases in nutrient concentrations, especially nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), as wood decomposes [48]. A higher concentration of P and N than in surrounding soils was found in fresh earthworm casts [22], in freshly constructed termite mound materials [27], and in nests of wood ants [8]. Also, higher concentration of N and P than that of wood has been found in faeces of humivorous cetonid beetle larvae Pachnoda ephippiata [24,25], and in the faeces of the wood-feeding scarabaeid beetle larvae Osmoderma eremita [18] and Cetonia aurataeformis [31]. Moreover, numerous farmers from Africa, South America and Australia have long recognised the benefits of insects such as termites to crop production [48].

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Soil Distribution and Classification

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

At What Depth Are The Properties of a Gypseous Forest Topsoil Affected By Burning?

At What Depth Are The Properties of a Gypseous Forest Topsoil Affected By Burning?

Soil-geomorphology relationships determine the distribution of the main subalpine grasslands in the Central Pyrenees (NE-Spain)

Chemical transformation of Quercus wood by Cetonia larvae (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae): An improvement of carbon and nitrogen available in saproxylic environments

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