Application of Soil Physics in Environmental Analyses

1. Front Matter

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2. Integrating Data in Soil Physics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Knowledge Chains, Linking Cutting-Edge Research on Flow Phenomena in Soils with Tacit Knowledge from Field Research

      • Johan Bouma

      Pages 3-21

   3. Hydropedology: Linking Dynamic Soil Properties with Soil Survey Data

      • Henry Lin, Weihua Zhang, Haoliang Yu

      Pages 23-50

3. Data Analysis in Soil Physics and Pedotransfers Functions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. State-Space Analysis in Soil Physics

      • Ole Wendroth, Yang Yang, Luís Carlos Timm

      Pages 53-74

   3. Spatial Relationships Between Soil Water Content and Hydraulic Conductivity in a Highly Structured Clay Soils

      • Sidney Rosa Vieira, Célia Regina Grego, George Clarke Topp, Willian Daniel Reynolds

      Pages 75-90

   4. State-Space Approach to Understand Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Relationships

      • Luís Carlos Timm, Klaus Reichardt, Cláudia Liane Rodrigues de Lima, Leandro Sanzi Aquino, Letiane Helwig Penning, Durval Dourado-Neto

      Pages 91-129

   5. Pedotransfer Functions for Brazilian Soils

      • Alexandre Hugo Cezar Barros, Quirijn de Jong van Lier

      Pages 131-162

4. Different Approaches for the Characterization of Soil Physical Quality Indicators

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. An Algorithm for Mapping the Spatial Variability of Soil Physical Quality

      • Marcos Bacis Ceddia, Sergio Drumond Ventura, Rosane Ferreira de Oliveira, André Luis Oliveira Villela, Carlos Alberto Alves Varella

      Pages 165-190

   3. A Preliminary Proposal for the Structural Classification of Soil Pore Space

      • Theophilo Benedicto Ottoni Filho, Marta Vasconcelos Ottoni

      Pages 191-199

   4. Indicators of Soil Physical Quality: From Simplicity to Complexity

      • Alvaro Pires da Silva, Ary Bruand, Cássio Antônio Tormena, Euzebio Medrado da Silva, Glenio Guimarães Santos, Neyde Fabíola Balarezo Giarola et al.

      Pages 201-221

   5. Monitoring Soil Water in Irrigated Soils of the Brazilian Semi-arid Region: An Opportunity to Improve Water Use

      • Luis Henrique Bassoi

      Pages 223-236

5. Sensors and Monitoring in Soil Physics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. Sensor Network Data Assimilation in Soil Water Flow Modeling

      • Yakov Pachepsky, Feng Pan, Gonzalo Martinez

      Pages 239-260

   3. New Perspectives for the Application of High-Resolution Benchtop X-Ray MicroCT for Quantifying Void, Solid and Liquid Phases in Soils

      • Carlos Manoel Pedro Vaz, Markus Tuller, Paulo Renato Orlandi Lasso, Sílvio Crestana

      Pages 261-281

   4. Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity in the Central Amazon: Field Evaluations

      • Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, Götz Schroth, Jean Dalmo Marques, Bernd Huwe

      Pages 283-305

   5. Soil Moisture and Soil Water Storage Using Hydrological Modeling and Remote Sensing

      • Otto Corrêa Rotunno Filho, Afonso Augusto Magalhães de Araujo, Luciano Nóbrega Rodrigues Xavier, Daniel Medeiros Moreira, Rafael Carneiro Di Bello, Adilson Elias Xavier et al.

      Pages 307-345

6. Creating Databases and Models Applied to Soil Physics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 347-347

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The importance to preserve soil and water have is increasingly recognized. Agricultural practices and ecological trends both affect and are affected by soil physical properties. The more frequency of natural disasters, as landslides and thunderstorms addresses the importance to integrate soil characteristics in predictive models. Soil physics research has grown considerably specially in the use of innovative sensors, soil databases, and modeling techniques have been introduced into soil water relationship and environmental monitoring. Those advances are thoroughly dispersed in articles and conference proceedings In this volume, the authors will bring together the effectiveness of many new field and lab sensors and examine the current state-of-the-art in modeling and data analysis. It also includes innovative approaches and case studies in tropical soils. Future directions in soil physics research are given by key researchers in this discipline.

• Environmental sensors
• Hydropedology
• Soil Water Modelling
• Soil database
• Soil physics

• Soil Physics, Embrapa Soils, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

  Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, Guilheme Kangussu Donnagema

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

  Marcos Bacis Ceddia

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

  Marta Vasconcelos Ottoni

Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, an agronomist, got his degree in Agronomy from the Federal University of Viçosa in Brazil (1985 to 1989), his master degree in Soil Science from the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil (1990 to 1992) and his PhD in Soil Physics from University of Bayreuth in Germany (1998 to 2001). Since 1995, he has worked for the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture at the Center of Brazilian Agricultural Research from the Occidental Region of Amazon (Embrapa - Amazonia Ocidental), Brazil and he is also an associate professor at the Federal University of the Amazon (UFAM). His work focuses on tropical soil management and conservation. The main research areas are: soil physical quality standards for tropical soils, characterization of anthropic soils (Terra preta de Índio) and use of charcoal as soil conditioner (biochar)”. He co-edited "Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision", published by Springer in 2009.

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