Overview
- Editors:
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Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer
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Departamento de Solos, Federal University - Viçosa, Viçosa MG, Brazil
- Represents soils of Brazil, in the challenge of illustrating all the biomes of a country of truly continental dimension
- Makes a key contribution to the discussion of current topics in Pedology
- Is of great interest to geologists and geomorphologists who study the tropics and subtropics
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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- Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Carlos Roberto Espindola, Lucia Helena C. dos Anjos, Flávio O. Camargo, João Carlos Ker, Guilherme Resende Corrêa
Pages 1-23
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- Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Guilherme Resende Corrêa, Fábio Soares de Oliveira, Elpídio I. Fernandes Filho, Márcio R. Francelino, Lucas Carvalho Gomes
Pages 25-70
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- Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Elpidio I. Fernandes Filho, Márcio R. Francelino, Guilherme Resende Corrêa, Fábio Soares de Oliveira, João Carlos Ker
Pages 71-84
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- Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Hedinaldo N. Lima, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, José Frutuoso do Vale, Guilherme Resende Corrêa, Bruno Araujo F. de Mendonça et al.
Pages 85-128
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- Virlei A. de Oliveira, Glenio Guimarães Santos, João Carlos Ker, Eduardo Guimarães Couto, Paulo Klinger Jacomine (in memoriam), Guilherme Resende Corrêa et al.
Pages 129-173
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- José Coelho de Araújo Filho, Marcelo Metri Correa, Arlicelio Q. Paiva, Oldair Vinhas Costa, Gustavo S. Valladares, Matheus Rosa Ribeiro (in memoriam) et al.
Pages 175-193
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- Ademir Fontana, Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos, João Carlos Ker, Marcos Gervásio Pereira, Eduardo O. Senra et al.
Pages 195-220
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- Marcelo Metri Corrêa, José Coelho de Araújo Filho, Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, João Carlos Ker
Pages 221-238
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- Eduardo G. Couto, Guilherme Resende Corrêa, Virlei A. Oliveira, Alexandre Ferreira do Nascimento, Pablo Vidal-Torrado, Raphael Beirigo et al.
Pages 239-267
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- Ricardo S. D. Dalmolin, Fabrício de Araújo Pedron, Gustavo Ribas Curcio
Pages 269-297
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- Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Hugo Galvão Candido, Guilherme Resende Corrêa, Prímula Viana Campos, Eduardo O. Senra, Davi F. Gjorup et al.
Pages 343-362
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- Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Fabio Soares de Oliveira, Mariana de Resende Machado, Flavio Adriano Marques
Pages 363-391
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- Pablo Vidal-Torrado, Peter Buurman, Pedro Martinez, Josiane Millani Lopes-Mazzetto, Judith Schellekens, Mauricio Rizato Coelho et al.
Pages 393-410
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- Tiago Osório Ferreira, Xosé Luis Otero, Gabriel Nuto Nóbrega, Hermano Melo Queiroz, Diego Barcellos, Pablo Vidal-Torrado
Pages 411-421
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- Elpídio I. Fernandes Filho, Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos, Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Ricardo S. D. Dalmolin, Márcio R. Francelino, César S. Chagas et al.
Pages 423-433
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- Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Guilherme Resende Corrêa, Davi Feital Gjorup, Bruno Nery Vasconcelos, Marcio R. Francelino
Pages 435-470
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- Vinicius de Melo Benites, Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer, Pedro Luis O. A. Machado, José Carlos Polidoro, Rafael da Silva Teixeira
Pages 471-486
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Back Matter
Pages 487-488
About this book
This book represents the first comprehensive edition, in English, on the soils of Brazil, in the challenge of illustrating all the biomes of a country of truly continental dimension. In addition to presenting the first geosystemic view of Brazilian soils, in all geological, geomorphological and environmental aspects, the book also makes a key contribution to the discussion of current topics in Pedology, such as Anthrosols, Technosols, Soil Management trends and sustainability, Pedometrics and advanced techniques of digital soil mapping. The soils of Brazil were conveniently stratified into sectors and treated within the different biomes, without neglecting any area of the Brazilian territory.
Considering the aspects of the landscape of occurrence, climates, geomorphology and geology, each pedological region was abundantly documented with soil profile data and many fine original, three-dimensional illustrations and diagrams, made with care by the authors. Among the regions, the most important are the forested Amazon, the Central Plateau with Cerrados, the Caatingas of the northeastern semi-arid region, the Atlantic Forest in all known variants; in addition, the Restingas, Mangroves, Oceanic Islands, Wetlands of the Pantanal and the subtropical regions of the Pampa and Matas de Araucaria. The book is of great importance as the first published work on Brazilian soils, but it is of great interest to geologists and geomorphologists who study the tropics and subtropics, due to the novelty and scope of the work.
Editors and Affiliations
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Departamento de Solos, Federal University - Viçosa, Viçosa MG, Brazil
Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer
About the editor
Prof. Carlos Ernesto Schaefer (BSc Agronomy, PhD Soil Science Reading Univ.– UK) is professor of Soil Science at the Federal University of Viçosa from 1994 until the present days. He has conducted soil genesis, ecological and geomorphological studies in many parts of the world, including Africa, Australia, South America and Antarctica, and is one of the leading soil scientists in Brazil, having published more than 370 papers, and supervised more than a hundred pos-grad students. Carlos lives in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He enjoys gardening, poetry, biking, Brazilian music and traveling.
