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State Factor Climate

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The Soil Resource

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 37))

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To begin with a historical note, the documented recognition of climate as a molder of soil is but a century old, though earlier de Saussure had suggested in his Voyages dans les Alpes (1796) that climate is responsible for variations in contents of soil organic matter.

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  1. Department of Plant and Soil Biology, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Hans Jenny (Professor Emeritus)

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Jenny, H. (1980). State Factor Climate. In: The Soil Resource. Ecological Studies, vol 37. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6112-4_12

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