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The Role of Organic Matter in Modern Agriculture pp 55–70Cite as

Nitrogen transformations in Histosols

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Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 25))

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Deposits of organic soils (Histosols) occur mainly in cool, humid regions such as the northeastern United States and Canada. Histosols are also found in the San Joaquin Delta of California and the Hula Valley of Israel where the climate is hot and dry. Large deposits of organic soils have formed in the warm humid climate of the southern coastal plains of the United States. The Florida Everglades contains more than 8 x 105 ha of peat and muck soils and is the largest known tract of organic soils in the world (20).

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  1. Department of Soil and Water Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 76100, Israël

    Y. Chen

  2. Department of Soils and Fertilizers, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, The Technion, Haifa, Israël

    Y. Avnimelech

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Terry, R.E. (1986). Nitrogen transformations in Histosols. In: Chen, Y., Avnimelech, Y. (eds) The Role of Organic Matter in Modern Agriculture. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4426-8_4

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