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Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Amazonian Dark Earths: The First Century of Reports
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    Chapter 2 Pre-Columbian Settlement Dynamics in the Central Amazon
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    Chapter 3 Steps Towards an Ecology of Landscape: The Pedo-Stratigraphy of Anthropogenic Dark Earths
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    Chapter 4 Phytoliths and Terra Preta: The Hatahara Site Example
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    Chapter 5 Anthropogenic Dark Earths of the Central Amazon Region: Remarks on Their Evolution and Polygenetic Composition
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    Chapter 6 An Assessment of the Cultural Practices Behind the Formation (or Not) of Amazonian Dark Earths in Marajo Island Archaeological Sites
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    Chapter 7 Kayapó Savanna Management: Fire, Soils, and Forest Islands in a Threatened Biome
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    Chapter 8 Amerindian Anthrosols: Amazonian Dark Earth Formation in the Upper Xingu
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    Chapter 9 Indigenous Knowledge About Terra Preta Formation
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    Chapter 10 Sweep and Char and the Creation of Amazonian Dark Earths in Homegardens
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    Chapter 11 Pedology, Fertility, and Biology of Central Amazonian Dark Earths
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    Chapter 12 Historical Ecology and Dark Earths in Whitewater and Blackwater Landscapes: Comparing the Middle Madeira and Lower Negro Rivers
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    Chapter 13 Amazonian Dark Earths in Africa?
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    Chapter 14 Locating Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) Using Satellite Remote Sensing – A Possible Approach
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    Chapter 15 The Microbial World of Terra Preta
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    Chapter 16 Microbial Response to Charcoal Amendments and Fertilization of a Highly Weathered Tropical Soil
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    Chapter 17 Effects of Charcoal as Slow Release Nutrient Carrier on N-P-K Dynamics and Soil Microbial Population: Pot Experiments with Ferralsol Substrate
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    Chapter 18 Terra Preta Nova: The Dream of Wim Sombroek
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    Chapter 19 Microbial Population and Biodiversity in Amazonian Dark Earth Soils
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    Chapter 20 Spectroscopy Characterization of Humic Acids Isolated from Amazonian Dark Earth Soils (Terra Preta De Índio)
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    Chapter 21 Solid-State 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Characterisation of Humic Acids Extracted from Amazonian Dark Earths (Terra Preta De Índio)
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    Chapter 22 Opening the Black Box: Deciphering Carbon and Nutrient Flows in Terra Preta
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    Chapter 23 Charcoal Making in the Brazilian Amazon: Economic Aspects of Production and Carbon Conversion Efficiencies of Kilns
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    Chapter 24 The Effect of Charcoal in Banana (Musa Sp.) Planting Holes – An On-Farm Study in Central Amazonia, Brazil
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    Chapter 25 Characterization of Char for Agricultural Use in the Soils of the Southeastern United States
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    Chapter 26 Black Carbon (Biochar) in Rice-Based Systems: Characteristics and Opportunities
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    Chapter 27 City to Soil: Returning Organics to Agriculture – A Circle of Sustainability
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    Chapter 28 Terra Preta Nova – Where to from Here?
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Title
Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2009
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9031-8
ISBNs
978-1-4020-9030-1, 978-1-4020-9031-8
Authors

Woods, William I, Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes, Lehmann, Johannes, Steiner, Christoph, WinklerPrins, Antoinette, Rebellato, Lilian

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William I. Woods, Wenceslau G. Teixeira, Johannes Lehmann, Christoph Steiner, Antoinette WinklerPrins, Lilian Rebellato

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Country Count As %
Brazil 4 2%
Germany 3 1%
United States 3 1%
Puerto Rico 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Réunion 1 <1%
Unknown 248 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 19%
Student > Master 47 18%
Researcher 37 14%
Student > Bachelor 24 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 5%
Other 49 19%
Unknown 44 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 62 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 58 22%
Social Sciences 25 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 13 5%
Engineering 12 5%
Other 38 14%
Unknown 56 21%