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Soil, the crucial link

Soil is the membrane of life that extends on the terrestrial surface like an interface and biological skin of planet Earth.

Modern society has placed demands on the academic soil science community for new perspectives and orientations in rapidly changing scenarios affected by strong social and biophysical driven forces. The steady trend in the changing pattern of soil use in Europe envisages important future consequences for the landscape, for agrarian production, and for the functioning of terrestrial eco¬systems. (from Foreword)

Contents

José Rubio
Foreword

TOPIC 1
SOILS AND SOCIETY

Ahmet Ruhi Mermut
Understanding Soils within the Context of Earth Surface Systems 1

Victor Targulian
Soil and Society: Human Impacts and Soil Responses 13

Raimo Kõlli, Tiina Köster, Tõnu Tõnutare and Karin Kauer
Influence of Land Use Change on Soil Humus Status and on
Soil Cover Environment Protection Ability 27

Juan-José Ibáñez, Juan Sánchez-Díaz, Antonio Rodríguez-Rodríguez and William R. Effland
Preservation of European Soils: Natural and Cultural Heritage 37

Carmelo Dazzi, Giuseppe Lo Papa and Vanessa Palermo
Spatio-temporal Effects of Land Use Change on Anthropogenic
Soils Diffusion:
A Case Study in a Mediterranean Vineyard Area 61

Sergio Vacca, Andrea Buondonno, Gian Franco Capra, Elio Coppola, Maria Teresa Rubino,
Pier Caudio Odierna, Salvatore Madrau, Adriano Colella and Alessio Langella
Pedovariability and Expression of Andic Soil Properties on the
Basalts of Macomer (Sardinia): Influence of Vegetal Cover 81

Roser Cots-Folch, José A. Martínez-Casasnovas and M. Concepción Ramos
Farming Strategies and Landscape Implications in the Priorat
Vineyard Region (NE Spain) 101

Irén Puskás and Andrea Farsang
Evaluation of Human-impacted Soils in Szeged (SE Hungary)
with Special Emphasis on Physical, Chemical and
Biological Properties 117

Miodrag Zlatic, Nada Dragovic, Mirjana Todosijevic and Jelena Tomicevic
Stakeholder Participation in Soil Management for Sustainability
in Mountainous Regions of Serbia 149

TOPIC 2
SOIL EROSION

Eric Roose
Soil Erosion, Conservation and Restoration: A few Lessons from
50 Years of Research in Africa 159

Nyoman Suwartha, Takashi Yamada and Sachio Shimomura
Proposing an Erosion Velocity Equation for Cohesive Soils
in Steeply Sloping Cultivated Fields in Indonesia 181

Giovanni Callegari, Francesco Catona, Vito Ferro and Paolo Porto
Validating a SEdiment Delivery Distributed (SEDD) Model in a
Small Calabrian Basin 203

Raffaele Casa, Gerardo Fratini, Fabio Pieruccetti, Hogwen Li,
Riccardo Valentini and Benedetto Lo Cascio
Measurement and Modelling for the Assessment of Soil Tillage
Effects on Wind Erosion in the Beijing Area 219

Hossein Asadi, Hassan Rouhipour and Hossein Ghadiri
Evaluation of Interrill Component of the WEPP Model for three
Contrasting Soil Types in Iran 237

Slobodan B. Mickovski, Paul D. Hallett, Anthony G. Bengough,
Mark F. Bransby, Michael C.R. Davies and Rene Sonnenberg
The Effect of Willow Roots on the Shear Strength of Soil 247

Thomas Ledermann, Karl Herweg, Hanspeter Liniger,
Flurina Schneider, Hans Hurni and Volker Prasuhn
Erosion Damage Mapping: Assessing Current Soil Erosion
Damage in Switzerland 263

TOPIC 3
SOIL ORGANIC MATTER

Nicola Senesi and César Plaza
Organic Matter Actions in Protecting Soil from Physical, Chemical
and Biological Degradation 285

Eleonora Bonifacio, Gloria Falsone, Gennady Simonov and Luisella Celi
Estimates of C Stocks and Pedogenic Processes in the Russian Taiga 299

Livia Vittori Antisari, Gilmo Vianello, Francesca Pontalti, Samantha Lorito and Massimo Gherardi
Land Use Effects on Organic Matter in Brown Soils of the
Emilian Apennines 311

Julian Campo, Vicente Andreu, Eugenia Gimeno-García, Oscar González-Pelayo and Jose Luis Rubio
Medium Term Evolution of Soil Aggregate Stability, Organic
Matter and Calcium Carbonate of a Mediterranean Soil Burned
at two Different Fire Intensities 329

Alessandro Marchetti, Chiara Piccini, Rosa Francaviglia, Sergio Santucci and Igino Chiuchiarelli
Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter Content in Teramo Province,
Central Italy 345

Luigi Pagano, Paola Iovieno, Massimo Zaccardelli and Luigi Morra
Soil Organic Matter Dynamic as Affected by Municipal Food Waste
Compost Fertilization in Southern Italy 357

Keiichi Hayashi, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Ryoichi Matsunaga, Hitoshi Shinjo,
Ueru Tanaka, Satoshi Tobita and Ramadjita Tabo
Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter for Agricultural
Land in the Sahel, West Africa 371

Annemie Van den Bossche, Stefaan De Nev and Georges Hofman
Influence of Tillage System on the Decomposition of Crop Residues
of Winter Wheat in a Temperate Climate 379

Maria Teresa Dell’Abate, Francesca Baroccio, Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri,
Carlos Clemente Cerri, David S. Powlson and Phil C. Brookes
Impact of Land Use Change and Management on Soil Organic
Matter Pools in a Tropical Environment 381

TOPIC 4
SOIL DEGRADATION AND DESERTIFICATION

Marcello Pagliai
Soil Degradation and Desertification 401

Leo Stroosnijder and Monique Slegers
Soil Degradation and Droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa 413

Pedro González-Fernández, Ignacio Llanos-Triviño, Juan Jorrín Novo
and Rafaela Ordóñez-Fernández
Evolution of Organic Matter and Acidity on Cropped,
Limed-cropped and Uncropped Mediterranean Ultisols 427

C. López-Fando and M.T. Pardo
Tillage Impacts on Soil Physical Properties of a Semiarid Soil
from Central Spain 435

TOPIC 5
SOIL POLLUTION AND CONTAMINATION

Tamara Polubesova and Benny Chefetz
Sorption of Herbicides and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by
Kishon River Sediment 443

Sinéad E. Smith and Abir Al-Tabbaa
Impacts of Climate Change on the Leachability and Microstructure
of Stabilised/Solidified Contaminated Soils 457

Vassilios D. Tsatiris, Konstantinos G. Serelis, Chariklia S. Kallianou and Anastasios Tsagalidis
Impact of Serpentinization on Soil Properties and Metal Availability 477

Marketa Vysloužilová, Radim Vácha, Jarmila Čechmánková and Viela Horváthová
Natural and Induced Lead Phytoextraction by Brassica juncea
Grown in a Contaminated Soil 493

Andrea Buondonno, Abner Colella, Elio Coppola, Alessio Langella and Antonio P. Leone
Mineralogical, Chemical-physical and Mechanical Implications of
Soil Contamination 503

Radu Lăcătuşu, Mihaela Lungu, Anca Rovena Lăcătuşu,Carmen Burtea and Iuliana Gabriela Breabăn
Lead Behavior in a Soil–Plant System from Polluted and
Unpolluted Areas in Romania 519

TOPIC 6
SOIL CONSERVATION AND SOIL QUALITY

Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Kathy Davies†, Michael A. Fullen and
Colin A. Booth
Effects of Palm-mat Geotextiles on the Conservation of Loamy
Sand Soils in East Shropshire, UK 527

Luciano Gristina, Tommaso La Mantia, Salvatore Pasta and Ignazio Poma
An Analysis of Carbon Storage in Protected Areas with
Relation to Agroforestry Management and Biodiversity 539

Elena Armenise, Anna Maria Stellacci and Angelo Caliandro
Effect of Different Cropping Systems on Some Basic Soil Quality Indicators 555

Peter Lászlo, Miklós Dombos, Csaba Gyuricza and Josef Rosner
The Effect of Conservation Tillage Systems on some Physical
and Biological Properties of Sandy Loam Soil in Corn Monoculture 563

Stefano Mocali, Maurizio Castaldini, Arturo Fabiani, Andrea Marcucci,
Marcello Pagliai and Anna Benedetti
Impact of Different Transgenic Bt Corn Varieties on
Microorganisms and Soil Quality 569

Hong Wang, Brian G. McConkey, Robert P. Zentner, Con A. Campbell,
Fernando Selles, Reynald Lemke and Herb Cutforth
Long-term Tillage Effects on Biomass Production of Wheat in a
Canadian Brown Soil 581

Silvia Stanchi, Michele Freppaz, Elisa Oberto, Angelo Caimi and Ermanno Zanini
Plastic and Liquid Limits in Alpine Soils: Methods of Measurement
and Relation to Soil Properties 593

TOPIC 7
POLICIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY

Dalia Feiziene, Virginius Feiza, Sigitas Lazauskas, Grazina Kadziene,
Danute Simanskaite and Irena Deveikyte
Long-term Tillage and Fertilization Influence on a Cambisol
in Lithuania 605

Pavel Novák, Jiří Obršlík, Jan Vopravil and Monika Čermáková
Impact of Political and Socio-Economic Changes in the
Czech Republic on Long-term Development of Sheet
Water Erosion 621

TOPIC 8
NEW APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOIL ASSESSMENT

Paolo Sequi, Massimiliano Valentini and Liviana Leita
New Approaches and Technologies for Soil Assessment:
An overview for present problems 629

Micheal L. Golden and Jonathan W. Hempel
Modernizing the Soil Survey of the United States 649

Jerry Lemunyon and Robert Lynn Kellogg
Assessment of Conservation Benefits Derived from
Conservation Practices in the United States 659

Sergio Vacca, Gian Franco Capra, Martin Banov, Paraskev Petrov, Herbert Muntau,
Andrea Buondonno, Elio Coppola, Vassilka Mladenova, Guido Cerri, Marco Biagioli,
Maria Giustina Duras, Giusepina Selis, Stefano Conti and Antonio Brundu
Possibilities for Reclamation of Disturbed Environments
in the Mining District of Vratza, Northwestern Bulgaria 669

Antonio P. Leone, Gaetano Calabrò, Elio Coppola, Carmine Maffei,
Massimo Menenti, Maurizio Tosca, Mauro Vella and Andrea Buondonno
Prediction of Soil Properties with VIS-NIR-SWIR
Reflectance Spectroscopy and Artificial Neural Networks:
A Case Study on three Pedoenvironments of the
Campania Region, Italy 685

Liming Ye, Ann Verdoodt, Rachid Moussadek, Huajun Tang and Eric Van Ranst
Assessment of China’s Food Producing Capacities Using a
Web-based Land Evaluation Engine and a Grid-based GIS 699

Mariateresa Rubino, Anna Benedetti, Elio Coppola, Maria Teresa Dell’Abate and Andrea Buondonno
A New Oxidation Method for the Determination of Soil Extracted
and Humic Substances 719