Pedodiversity
By: editors, Juan José Ibáñez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE), Valencia, Spain ; James G. Bockheim, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781466582774
Subjects: Soils; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; Classification; NATURE / Ecology; Soil biodiversity; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General
Notes: "A Science Publishers book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pedodiversity state of the art and future challenges; title: Measuring diversity of environmental systems; title: Nonlinear dynamics, divergent evolution, and pedodiversity; title: Fractals and multifractals in pedodiversity and biodiversity analyses; title: Pedodiversity and landscape ecology; title: Pedodiversity and landforms; title: Repercussion of anthropogenic landscape changes on pedodiversity and preservation of the pedological heritage; title: Soil endemism and its importance to taxonomic pedodiversity; title: Pedodiversity studies in China.