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Record Nr.

UNINA9910853996703321

Autore

Finke Peter <1942->

Titolo

Modelling Soil Development Under Global Change / / by Peter Finke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9783031555831

303155583X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, , 2191-5903

Disciplina

631.4

Soggetti

Ecology

Soil science

Quantum theory

Computer simulation

Rock mechanics

Soil mechanics

Environmental Sciences

Soil Science

Quantum Simulations

Soil and Rock Mechanics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Modelling Soil Development -- 1. Why model soil development -- 2. A brief history of modelling soil development -- 3. Required process coverage in a soil development model -- Part II. The Soilgen Model -- 4. Philosophy behind SoilGen Processes in SoilGen -- 5. Addressing constraints, variability and uncertainty -- Part III. User Interface -- 6. User interface of SoilGen.

Sommario/riassunto

Quantitative assessments of the effects of global change on soil development are mostly focused on soil carbon, some nutrients, pollutants and soil water. Soil however is a complex entity with interacting biological, physical and chemical processes that are rarely modelled in its entirety. Additionally, for the sake of simplicity various soil properties are considered constants whereas in reality they are not. Soil as we observe it is the resultant of many processes driven by



varying boundary conditions such as climate and organisms including men. This is not different when we study global change, thus modelling soil development under global change overlaps with modelling soil formation. This book gives an overview of what such model should entail, with ample descriptions to use SoilGen, a simulattion model to study pedogenesis.