Soils of Tropical Forest Ecosystems

1. Front Matter

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2. Forest Soils in the Humid Tropics: Characteristics and Classification

   1. Soils of rainforests Characterization and major constraints of dominant forest soils in the humid tropics

      • Sjef Kauffman, Wim Sombroek, Stephan Mantel

      Pages 9-20

   2. The World Reference Base for Soil Resources

      • Otto C. Spaargaren, Jozef Deckers

      Pages 21-28

   3. Soils of the tropical forests of Leyte, Philippines I: Weathering, soil characteristics, classification and site qualities

      • Reinhold Jahn, Victor B. Asio

      Pages 29-36

   4. Soils of the tropical forests of Leyte, Philippines II: Impact of different land uses on status of organic matter and nutrient availability

      • Victor B. Asio, Reinhold Jahn, Karl Stahr, Josef Margraf

      Pages 37-44

3. Chemical and Hydrological Changes after Utilization

   1. Soil chemical changes after tropical forest disturbance and conversion: The hydrological perspective

      • L. A. Sampurno Bruijnzeel

      Pages 45-61

   2. Hydrology of Acrisols beneath Dipterocarp forests and plantations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

      • Walter W. Wenzel, Hansjörg Unterfrauner, Andreas Schulte, Daddy Ruhiyat, Dicky Simorangkir, Václav Kuráz et al.

      Pages 62-72

   3. Nutrient dynamics in intact and logged tropical rain forest in Guyana

      • Leo C. Brouwer, Hans Th. Riezebos

      Pages 73-86

   4. Logging can cause a serious lack of calcium in tropical rainforest ecosystems: An example from Sabah, Malaysia

      • Nils Nykvist

      Pages 87-91

   5. Resilience of phosphorus transformations in tropical forest and derived ecosystems

      • Holm Tiessen

      Pages 92-98

4. Soil Fertility and Fertilization in Forest Plantations and Agroforestry Systems

   1. Nutrient disorders and nutrient management in fast growing plantations

      • Wolfgang Zech, Pay Drechsel

      Pages 99-106

   2. Growth response of rainforest cabinet timber species to fertiliser application in North Queensland plantations

      • Rodney Keenan, Alison Hambleton, Ken Robson, Michael Webb

      Pages 107-114

   3. Site specific fertiliser requirements of tropical Pine plantations

      • John Simpson

      Pages 115-124

   4. Above-ground nutrient dynamics of Caribbean Pine (Pinus caribaea) plantation ecosystems

      • Olatunji Kadeba

      Pages 125-132

   5. Nutrient retranslocations during the early growth of two exotic plantation species

      • Wan Rasidah Kadir, O. Van Cleemput, A. R. Zaharah

      Pages 133-136

   6. Effect of fertilizing on establishment and early growth of tree plantations on Imperata cylindrica grasslands

      • Antti Otsamo

      Pages 137-143

   7. Effect of tillage and woody hedgerows in alley cropping on the productivity of an Alfisol

      • Biauw T. Kang, Felix K. Salako, Nilantha R. Hulugalle

      Pages 144-149

   8. Longterm studies of soil fertility in cacao-shade trees-agroforestry systems: Results of 15 years of organic matter and nutrients research in Costa Rica

      • Hans W. Fassbender

      Pages 150-158

5. Ecosystem Studies in Dipterocarp Forests of Southeast Asia

   1. Soil environment and tree species diversity in tropical rain forest, West Sumatra, Indonesia

      • Daisuke Kubota, Tsugiyuki Masunaga, Hermansah, Azwar Rasyidin, Mitsuru Hotta, Yoshiaki Shinmura et al.

      Pages 159-167

   2. Distribution characteristics of mineral elements in trees of tropical rain forest, West Sumatra, Indonesia

      • Tsugiyuki Masunaga, Daisuke Kubota, Mitsuru Hotta, Yoshiaki Shinmura, Toshiyuki Wakatsuki

      Pages 168-174

An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems. The present book examines the contribution that forest soil science and forest ecology can make to sustainable land use in the humid tropics. Four main issues are addressed: characteristics and classification of forest soils, chemical and hydrological changes after forest utilization, soil fertility management in forest plantations and agroforestry systems as well as ecosystem studies from the dipterocarp forest region of Southeast Asia. Additionally, case studies include work from Guyana, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia and Nigeria.

• Phosphor
• Plantation
• Rainforest
• Soil fertility
• Tillage
• classification
• development
• ecology
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• forest
• hydrology
• logging
• soil

• Forest Ecology and Soil Science, University of Paderborn, FB 7, Höxter, Germany

  Andreas Schulte

• Faculty of Forestry, Institute of Soil Science, Mulawarman University, Samarinda, Indonesia

  Daddy Ruhiyat

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