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Soil Geography

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Soils are natural bodies and as such four-dimensional sections of the Earth’s crust, in which the media rock, water, air and organisms are interacting. In doing so, it is important that the soils are populated by organisms. Soils may not be considered as a living organism, but rather as a complex system of pores and solids. Soils consist of four phases: the gaseous, liquid, solid mineral and solid organic phases.

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  1. Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Hans-Peter Blume, Heiner Fleige & Rainer Horn

  2. Institute for Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

    Ellen Kandeler & Karl Stahr

  3. Chair of Soil Science, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

    Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  4. Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Ruben Kretzschmar

  5. Institute of Ecology, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Berndt-Michael Wilke

  6. Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Gerhard W. Brümmer

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Blume, HP. et al. (2016). Soil Geography. In: Scheffer/SchachtschabelSoil Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30942-7_8

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