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Understanding Soil Spatial Patterns for Sustainable Development

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Given the mountainous character of Dogu’a Tembien along with a strong variability in lithology, topography and climate, a wide range of soil types can be expected. Nevertheless, the occurrence of soil types and sequences (catenas) is all but random.

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  1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Jozef Deckers, Sander Tielens, Karen De Geyndt, Johan Van de Wauw, Jean Poesen & Karen Vancampenhout

  2. Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia

    Mitiku Haile

  3. Department of Dryland Crops and Horticultural Sciences, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia

    Alemtsehay Tsegay

  4. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281(S8), 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Jan Nyssen

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  1. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Jan Nyssen

  2. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Miro Jacob

  3. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Amaury Frankl

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Deckers, J. et al. (2019). Understanding Soil Spatial Patterns for Sustainable Development. In: Nyssen, J., Jacob, M., Frankl, A. (eds) Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04955-3_24

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