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"change is simply described by the rate of income and rate of loss. Our home's energy budget, our firm's inventory, our nation's debt, and humanity's numbers all have accounts that change at rates that are equal to the inputs minus the outputs. Jenny's ""system view"" of the soil was carried into the fertile fields of Midwestern American prairies from the laboratories of Switzerland in the late 1920s. Jenny's rate equations provided the other paradigm or world view that, I recall, brought us to the threshold of systems ecology as it later evolved in the second half of the twentieth century. As if world renown in the specialties of pedology and soil chemistry were not enough for one lifetime, excerpts below remind us that Hans Jenny has also been a perceptive outdoor field ecologist since his early Alpine expeditions with Braun­ Blanquet in the mid 1920s. Jenny's ecosystem studies in the pygmy forest, a further classic example of a soil-plant system ""run down"" over hundreds of thousands of years since its origin, continue to occupy some of the vigorous retirement time near his farm in Mendocino County. But each specific, quantitative case study, and each research area conserved (with additional hard work) for further study by future generations, fits into Jenny's coherent world view. It is that view, and its legacies of discovery and of tangible landscape preserves, which we are privileged to share with their originator in this volume."

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Author:   Hans Jenny
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Volume:   37
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.695kg
ISBN:  

9781461261148

ISBN 10:   1461261147
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   09 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Ecosystems and Soils.- A. Concept of Ecosystem.- B. Soil as an Object of Nature.- C. Soil Colors and Soil Particles.- D. Soil Taxonomy and Classification.- E. Review of Chapter.- References.- A. Processes of Soil Genesis.- 2. Water Regimes of Soils and Vegetation.- 3. Behavior of Ions in Soils and Plant Responses.- 4. Origin, Transformation, and Stability of Clay Particles.- 5. Biomass and Humus.- 6. Soil Colloidal Interactions and Hierarchy of Structures.- 7. Pedogenesis of Horizons and Profiles.- B. Soil and Ecosystem Sequences.- 8. State Factor Analysis.- 9. The Time Factor of System Genesis.- 10. State Factor Parent Material.- 11. State Factor Topography.- 12. State Factor Climate.- 13. Biotic Factor of System Genesis.- 14. Integration of Factors and Overview of Book.- Appendix I. Names of Vascular Species Cited.

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