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Indicators of Soil Physical Quality: From Simplicity to Complexity

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Application of Soil Physics in Environmental Analyses

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In working with soil physics, getting new answers to the same questions is a challenge. As soil physicists, we are always hoping to find new ways of understanding such a complex soil science area. In this chapter, we will discuss some of the ways to assess soil physical quality for crop growth, using ascending complexity classification, from the simplest to the more complex soil physical indicators for crop growth.

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  1. Departamento de Ciência do Solo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz – Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Pádua Dias, 11, Cx.P. 9, 13418-900, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

    Alvaro Pires da Silva

  2. Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans (ISTO) UMR7327, Université d’Orléans, CNRS/INSU, BRGM, Université François Rabelais – Tours, 1A, Rue de la Férolerie 45071, Orléans, Cedex 2, France

    Ary Bruand

  3. Departamento de Agronomia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

    Cássio Antônio Tormena

  4. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Embrapa Cerrados, BR 020, km 18, 73310-970, Planaltina, Distrito Federal, Brazil

    Euzebio Medrado da Silva & Robélio Leandro Marchão

  5. Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia de Alimentos – Universidade Federal de Goiás, Rodovia Goiânia-Nova Veneza, km 0, Cx.P. 131, 74.001-970, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

    Glenio Guimarães Santos

  6. Departamento de Ciência do Solo e Engenharia Agrícola, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Av. Gal. Carlos Cavalcanti 4748, 84030-900, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil

    Neyde Fabíola Balarezo Giarola

  7. Departamento de Agronomia, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Campus Pato Branco, Via do Conhecimento Km 1, 85503-390, Pato Branco, Paraná, Brazil

    Rachel Muylaert Locks Guimarães

  8. Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Passo Fundo, BR 285, São José, 99052-900, Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Vilson Antônio Klein

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Correspondence to Alvaro Pires da Silva .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Soil Physics, Embrapa Soils, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira

  2. Soils Department, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil

    Marcos Bacis Ceddia

  3. Department of Hydrology, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais (CPRM), Geological Survey of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Marta Vasconcelos Ottoni

  4. Soil Physics, Embrapa Soils, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Guilheme Kangussu Donnagema

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da Silva, A.P. et al. (2014). Indicators of Soil Physical Quality: From Simplicity to Complexity. In: Teixeira, W., Ceddia, M., Ottoni, M., Donnagema, G. (eds) Application of Soil Physics in Environmental Analyses. Progress in Soil Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06013-2_9

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