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Soils and paleosols as archives of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes
No full textThe Fourth International Congress of the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS) ‘EUROSOIL 2012 ‐ Soil Science for the Benefit of Mankind and Environment’ took place in Bari (Italy) on 2–6 July 2012. It aimed to present and discuss many current issues of Soil Sciences, as well as provide an interactive forum for exchange of ideas by bringing together and promoting durable relationships among established and young soil scientists, technical and professional operators, industry and administrative representatives, policy makers and regulators. The session entitled ‘Soils and Sediments as Natural Archives’, convened by Claudio Zaccone, Sylvie Quideau, Alexander O. Makeev and Daniela Sauer, was devoted to recent studies using soils and palaeosols as potential records of both natural and human‐induced processes that occurred during the past centuries to millennia
High resolution records of organic matter accumulation, trace element and dust depositions and environmental changes from the free-floating peat island of Posta Fibreno
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Soils as a record of the past
No full textOn the occasion of the EGU General Assembly 2012, researchers and students involved in interdisciplinary soil science studies were invited to submit abstracts to the session SSS10.2. Soils as a Record of the Past. This session, convened by Claudio Zaccone (Univ. of Foggia) and co-convened by Jan M. van Mourik (Univ. of Amsterdam), Carlo Barbante (Univ. of Venice) and Sjoerd J. Kluiving (Univ. of Amsterdam) (http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9994), received numerous contributions regarding, only to mention some of the main topics, the application of new techniques to obtain palaeoecological and geoarchaeological information from different soil types, the application of different age-dating techniques to have reliable geochronological information, new reconstructions of vegetation and climate of the past through the integrated analysis of different terrestrial archives, the reconstructions of the human impact on the environment, in terms of organic and inorganic pollutant, land-use, fires, etc, and the reconstruction of soil forming environments of the past and the landscape evolution. In the present Special Issue, we present a selection of papers (8) in order to share the potential of soils as a record of the past with the community of geosciences
Does the humic acid fraction mirror paleoenvironmental information archived in bulk peat from ombrotrophic bogs?
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Understanding the contribution of peat humic acids to the consistency of past human activity and environmental change reconstructions
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